Min Cost to Connect All Points

Description

You are given an array points representing integer coordinates of some points on a 2D-plane, where points[i] = [xi, yi].

The cost of connecting two points [xi, yi] and [xj, yj] is the manhattan distance between them: |xi - xj| + |yi - yj|, where |val| denotes the absolute value of val.

Return the minimum cost to make all points connected. All points are connected if there is exactly one simple path between any two points.

 

Example 1:

Input: points = [[0,0],[2,2],[3,10],[5,2],[7,0]]
Output: 20
Explanation:

We can connect the points as shown above to get the minimum cost of 20.
Notice that there is a unique path between every pair of points.

Example 2:

Input: points = [[3,12],[-2,5],[-4,1]]
Output: 18

Example 3:

Input: points = [[0,0],[1,1],[1,0],[-1,1]]
Output: 4

Example 4:

Input: points = [[-1000000,-1000000],[1000000,1000000]]
Output: 4000000

Example 5:

Input: points = [[0,0]]
Output: 0

 

Constraints:

• 1 <= points.length <= 1000
• -106 <= xi, yi <= 106
• All pairs (xi, yi) are distinct.

Solution(javascript)

/**
 * @param {number[][]} points
 * @return {number}
 */
const minCostConnectPoints = function (points) {
  const distance = (p1, p2) => Math.abs(p1[0] - p2[0]) + Math.abs(p1[1] - p2[1])
  const arr = []
  for (let i = 0; i < points.length; i++) {
    for (let j = i + 1; j < points.length; j++) {
      const d = distance(points[i], points[j])
      arr.push([i, j, d])
    }
  }
  arr.sort((a, b) => a[2] - b[2])
  const parents = points.map((x, index) => index)
  const root = (a) => {
    while (parents[a] !== parents[parents[a]]) {
      parents[a] = parents[parents[a]]
    }
    return parents[a]
  }
  const isConnected = (a, b) => root(a) === root(b)
  const union = (a, b) => {
    const rootA = root(a)
    const rootB = root(b)
    parents[rootA] = rootB
  }
  let result = 0
  for (const [a, b, cost] of arr) {
    if (!isConnected(a, b)) {
      result += cost
      union(a, b)
    }
  }
  return result
}