LeetCode 778. Swim in Rising Water

原题链接在这里：https://leetcode.com/problems/swim-in-rising-water/

题目：

On an N x N grid, each square grid[i][j] represents the elevation at that point (i,j).

Now rain starts to fall. At time t, the depth of the water everywhere is t. You can swim from a square to another 4-directionally adjacent square if and only if the elevation of both squares individually are at most t. You can swim infinite distance in zero time. Of course, you must stay within the boundaries of the grid during your swim.

You start at the top left square (0, 0). What is the least time until you can reach the bottom right square (N-1, N-1)?

Example 1:

Input: [[0,2],[1,3]]
Output: 3
Explanation:
At time 0, you are in grid location (0, 0).
You cannot go anywhere else because 4-directionally adjacent neighbors have a higher elevation than t = 0.

You cannot reach point (1, 1) until time 3.
When the depth of water is 3, we can swim anywhere inside the grid.

Example 2:

Input: [[0,1,2,3,4],[24,23,22,21,5],[12,13,14,15,16],[11,17,18,19,20],[10,9,8,7,6]]
Output: 16
Explanation:
 0  1  2  3  4
24 23 22 21  5
12 13 14 15 16
11 17 18 19 20
10  9  8  7  6

The final route is marked in bold.
We need to wait until time 16 so that (0, 0) and (4, 4) are connected.

Note:

1. 2 <= N <= 50.
2. grid[i][j] is a permutation of [0, ..., N*N - 1].

题解：

Eventually, we want to hit the bottom right.

Every time we try to find the minimum surroundings.

Keep a minHeap based on elevation, when poll out from minHeap, update max elevation. 

And if current position is bottom right, return res.

Otherwise, for 4 directions, check if it is not visited, add {x, y, elevation} to minHeap.

Time Complexity: O(N^2*logN). N = grid.length.

Space: O(N^2). heap size.

AC Java:

class Solution {
    public int swimInWater(int[][] grid) {
        int N = grid.length;
        PriorityQueue<int []> minHeap = new PriorityQueue<>((a, b) -> a[2] - b[2]);
        boolean [][] visited = new boolean[N][N];
        
        minHeap.add(new int[]{0, 0, grid[0][0]});
        visited[0][0] = true;
        int res = 0;
        int[][] dirs = new int[][]{{1, 0}, {0, 1}, {-1, 0}, {0, -1}};
        
        while(!minHeap.isEmpty()){
            int [] cur = minHeap.poll();
            res = Math.max(res, cur[2]);
            if(cur[0] == N - 1 && cur[1] == N - 1){
                return res;
            }
            
            for(int [] dir : dirs){
                int x = cur[0] + dir[0];
                int y = cur[1] + dir[1];
                if(x < 0 || x >= N || y < 0 || y >= N || visited[x][y]){
                    continue;
                }
                
                visited[x][y] = true;
                minHeap.add(new int[]{x, y, grid[x][y]});
            }    
        }
        
        return -1;
    }
}