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218\. The Skyline Problem
Hard
A city's **skyline** is the outer contour of the silhouette formed by all the buildings in that city when viewed from a distance. Given the locations and heights of all the buildings, return _the **skyline** formed by these buildings collectively_.
The geometric information of each building is given in the array `buildings` where buildings[i] = [lefti, righti, heighti]:
* lefti is the x coordinate of the left edge of the ith building.
* righti is the x coordinate of the right edge of the ith building.
* heighti is the height of the ith building.
You may assume all buildings are perfect rectangles grounded on an absolutely flat surface at height `0`.
The **skyline** should be represented as a list of "key points" **sorted by their x-coordinate** in the form [[x1,y1],[x2,y2],...]. Each key point is the left endpoint of some horizontal segment in the skyline except the last point in the list, which always has a y-coordinate `0` and is used to mark the skyline's termination where the rightmost building ends. Any ground between the leftmost and rightmost buildings should be part of the skyline's contour.
**Note:** There must be no consecutive horizontal lines of equal height in the output skyline. For instance, `[...,[2 3],[4 5],[7 5],[11 5],[12 7],...]` is not acceptable; the three lines of height 5 should be merged into one in the final output as such: `[...,[2 3],[4 5],[12 7],...]`
**Example 1:**

**Input:** buildings = \[\[2,9,10\],\[3,7,15\],\[5,12,12\],\[15,20,10\],\[19,24,8\]\]
**Output:** \[\[2,10\],\[3,15\],\[7,12\],\[12,0\],\[15,10\],\[20,8\],\[24,0\]\]
**Explanation:**
Figure A shows the buildings of the input.
Figure B shows the skyline formed by those buildings.
The red points in figure B represent the key points in the output list.
**Example 2:**
**Input:** buildings = \[\[0,2,3\],\[2,5,3\]\]
**Output:** \[\[0,3\],\[5,0\]\]
**Constraints:**
* 1 <= buildings.length <= 104
* 0 <= lefti < righti <= 231 - 1
* 1 <= heighti <= 231 - 1
* `buildings` is sorted by lefti in non-decreasing order.
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