Description

A description of the problem to model and solve.

Nonograms are a popular puzzles, which goes by different names in different countries.

Models have to shade in squares in a grid so that blocks of consecutive shaded squares satisfy constraints given for each row and column.

Constraints typically indicate the sequence of shaded blocks (e.g. 3,1,2 means that there is a block of 3, then a gap of unspecified size, a block of length 1, another gap, and then a block of length 2).

See Nonogram for more details.

Input data

We consider here the following input (in java):

// sequence of shaded blocks
int[][][] BLOCKS =
        new int[][][]{{
                {2},
                {4, 2},
                {1, 1, 4},
                {1, 1, 1, 1},
                {1, 1, 1, 1},
                {1, 1, 1, 1},
                {1, 1, 1, 1},
                {1, 1, 1, 1},
                {1, 2, 2, 1},
                {1, 3, 1},
                {2, 1},
                {1, 1, 1, 2},
                {2, 1, 1, 1},
                {1, 2},
                {1, 2, 1},
        }, {
                {3},
                {3},
                {10},
                {2},
                {2},
                {8, 2},
                {2},
                {1, 2, 1},
                {2, 1},
                {7},
                {2},
                {2},
                {10},
                {3},
                {2}}};
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