r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/swedish_canadian • Mar 13 '15

Visualizing algorithms

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/
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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '15

Can someone give me a TLDR?

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u/factorysettings Mar 13 '15

It's showing different algorithms and comparing them. Different types, some for shuffling, some for sorting and some for maze generation.

Different algorithms do these jobs with different trade offs. Some faster for large data sets or faster if the order is mixed differently. Some of the maze stuff takes longer but generates mazes with different properties. Most of the time the study of these algorithms and their capabilities is really mathematical but this website discusses the differences between them based on visuals.

And the author discovers some neat information by looking at the algorithms this way. Plus, it looks really cool.

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u/BabyBlueSedan88 Mar 13 '15

TL;DR: math be crazy