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Grokking the Coding Interview Patterns in JavaScript

Solution: The Skyline Problem

Explore a method to compute the city skyline by merging overlapping building segments. Understand how to use sorting and union find to track skyline boundaries and avoid redundant calculations.

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Imagine standing at a distance, viewing the skyline of a city. The skyline is the shape formed by all the buildings in the city when viewed together. Your task is to determine the shape of this skyline, given all the buildings’ position and height. Each building is represented by three values in the array buildings, where buildings[i]=[lefti, righti, heighti]buildings[i] = [left_i,~right_i,~ height_i] ...