Advent of Code 2018

Day 1: Shell script

Day 2: Io

Day 3: HTML5 Canvas

• Part 1 renders rectangles with an alpha value where when it renders twice or more, the alpha value gets saturated to 255. Counting pixels with alpha 255 returns the answer.
• Part 2 renders rectangles whose colors are Claim IDs converted into a 11-based number system where each digit gets encoded as a R/G/B value, so it can be distinguishably different in value after gamma correction/smoothing/rounding error/etc done by the browser. Finding the claim ID where the box doesn’t contain the saturated alpha value of 255 returns the answer.