// Variation of the Diamond program that uses a parameterized writeStrings
// method to eliminate the loop redundancy.

public class Diamond3 {
    public static final int SIZE = 8;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        drawDiamond();
        drawDiamond();
        drawX();
    }

    public static void drawDiamond() {
        upTriangle();
        downTriangle();
    }

    public static void drawX() {
        downTriangle();
        upTriangle();
    }

    public static void upTriangle() {
        for (int row = 0; row < SIZE; row++) {
            writeStrings(SIZE - 1 - row, " ");
            System.out.print("/");
            writeStrings(2 * row, ".");
            System.out.println("\\");
        }
    }

    public static void downTriangle() {
        for (int row = SIZE - 1; row >= 0; row--) {
            writeStrings(SIZE - 1 - row, " ");
            System.out.print("\\");
            writeStrings(2 * row, ".");
            System.out.println("/");
        }
    }
    
    // prints count occurrences of text
    public static void writeStrings(int count, String text) {
        for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
            System.out.print(text);
        }
    }
}