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Create an Alphabet Diamond
Challenge
Output the following text:
A
ABA
ABCBA
ABCDCBA
ABCDEDCBA
ABCDEFEDCBA
ABCDEFGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLMLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKLKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJKJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIJIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHIHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGHGFEDCBA
ABCDEFGFEDCBA
ABCDEFEDCBA
ABCDEDCBA
ABCDCBA
ABCBA
ABA
A
Notes
- You can have any amount of leading and trailing whitespace on all directions, as long as all non-whitespace characters are properly aligned to make the diamond shape.
- A multiline string, character matrix, list of strings, list of lists of characters, and equivalent are acceptable outputs.
- Shortest answer per language, scored in bytes, wins!
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Canvas, 10 7 6 bytes
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Creates the top portion, centers it, and mirrors it.
-3 bytes from dzaima's hint.
-1, found the 6 byter!
Explanation
Z[]/++
Z push the alphabet
[] get all prefixes
/ diagonalize by padding each line with one less than the previous
++ Quad palindromize, without reflecting letters
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