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In order to use the offline tester / visualizer tool for testing your solution locally, you'll have to modify your solution
by adding the main method that interacts with the tester / visualizer via reading data from standard input and
writing data to standard output. As long as you do not change the implementation of method recolor, this
doesn't affect the way your solution works when submitted to our server.
Here are example solutions for different languages, modified to be executed with visualizer. They all implement the same approach: assign color i to region with index i.
To run the tester with your solution, you should run:
java -jar Tester.jar -exec "<command>" -seed <seed>
Here, <command> is the command to execute your program,
and <seed> is seed for test case generation.
If your compiled solution is an executable file, the command
will be the full path to it, for example, "C:\TopCoder\solution.exe" or
"~/topcoder/solution". In case your compiled solution is to be run
with the help of an interpreter, for example, if you program in Java,
the command will be something like "java -cp C:\TopCoder Solution".
Additionally you can use the following options:
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-novis : Turns off visualization. By default tester creates two files: <seed>-in.png with the initial coloring of the map and <seed>-res.png with the coloring returned by your solution. The numbers in pixels denote the indices of regions to which the pixels belong. The borders between pixels of different regions painted with the same color are marked with bold black lines. Note that visualization for large test cases can be slow.
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-size <SZ> : Sets size of a map pixel for visualization.
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-debug : Print debug information during test run.
Finally, you can print any debug information of your solution to standard error,
and it will be forwarded to the standard out of the tester.