883. Projection Area of 3D Shapes

class Solution {
public:
    int projectionArea(vector<vector<int>>& grid) {
        int a[1000];
        memset(a, 0, sizeof(a));
        int sum = 0;
        int howlong = 0;
        for (vector<vector<int>>::iterator it = grid.begin(); it != grid.end();
            ++it) {
            if ((*it).size() > howlong)howlong = (*it).size();
            int maxn = 0;
            for (int i = 0; i < (*it).size(); ++i) {
                //top
                if ((*it)[i] != 0)++sum;

                //front
                if ((*it)[i] > maxn)maxn = (*it)[i];

                //side
                if ((*it)[i] > a[i])a[i] = (*it)[i];
            }
            sum += maxn;
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < howlong; ++i)sum += a[i];
        return sum;
    }
};