Given an image represented by an NxN matrix, where each pixel in the image is 4 bytes, write a method to rotate the image by 90 degrees. Can you do this in palace?
(This problem is in Easy Level)
Example:
1 2 3 7 4 1
4 5 6 ---> 8 5 2
7 8 9 9 6 3 (result matrix)
In order to do that, we need to first swap elements to the diagonal.
1 2 3 1 2 3' 9 6 3 7 4 1
4 5 6 ---> 4 5' 6 --> 8 5 2 --> swap elements to the middle 8 5 2
7 8 9 7' 8 9 7 4 1 9 6 3 (result matrix)
// Transform NxN matrix
void transformMatrix(vector< vector<int> >& matrix) {
// base conditions
if(matrix.size() == 0) return;
if(matrix[0].size() == 0) return;
// if it is not NxN matrix, we can't use this method.
if(matrix.size() != matrix[0].size()) return;
int size = matrix.size();
// swap elements diagonally.
for(int i = 0; i < size; ++i) {
for(int j = 0; j + i < size; ++j ) {
swap(matrix[i][j], matrix[size - 1 - j][size - 1 - i]);
}
}
// swap elements to the middle.
for(int i = 0; i < size / 2; ++i) {
for(int j = 0; j < size; ++j) {
swap(matrix[i][j], matrix[size - 1 - x][j]);
}
}
}
To extend into Hard Level: The matrix is MxN.