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This is collection of projects and links about algorithm visualization.

Projects

  • Setosa blog (example: Gridlock vs. Bottlenecks)
  • Mathigon (example: Sieve of Eratosthenes) and beta site
  • Encinographic blog (example: 2D Wave Equation)
  • Emergent Mind blog (example: Perceptrons)
  • The Nature of Code book (example: Oscillation)
  • Game Mechanic Explorer (example: Homing Missiles)
  • Pixel Shaders book proposal
  • Probabilistic Models of Computation book (example: Generative Models)
  • Steven Wittens (example: How to fold a Julia Fractal - click arrows on slideshows)
  • Red Blob Games (example: 2D Visibility)
  • Khan Academy algorithms course (example: Breadth First Search)
  • Christopher Olah (example: Neural Networks, Manifolds, and Topology)
  • Visualgo
  • Melkman's Algorithm interactively explained

Libraries & tools

  • Tailspin: JS interpreter in JS that runs an algorithm and lets the visualization inspect the local variables. Records history to allow stepping backwards too.
  • Vamonos: algorithm visualizations with pseudocode shown to reader and JS version underneath, plus some useful widgets to show pseudocode, call stack, data structures
  • Algomation: algorithm visualization that uses JS generators to pass control between algorithm execution and browser event loop
  • Algorithm Visualizations
  • LaTeX2HTML5: annotate LaTeX diagrams with interactivity when exporting to HTML
  • Tangle

References

  • Visualizing Algorithms
  • Active Essays on the Web
  • Visualizing sorting algorithms - arguing that static visualizations are better than algorithm animation

Examples

  • Garbage Collection
  • Spatial Hashing
  • Fourier Image Filtering
  • Fourier Series Visualization
  • The Skyline Problem
  • Animated Bézier Curves
  • A Primer on Bezier Curves
  • Sight And Light
  • Newton-Raphson Optimization (1D)
  • Newton-Raphson Optimization (2D)
  • Fisher-Yates Shuffle
  • Tetris in Clojure
  • HyperLogLog for big data distinct values
  • Cave Culling Algorithm in Minecraft
  • Explanation of X11 Servers has an X11 server running in the browser!
  • Manual for rot.js, a roguelike game library makes all the examples editable and viewable in the browser
  • ConvNetJS neural network examples in browser (example: 2-layer neural network)