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Dude, don't tempt me to add sound :P
by lolo_ 13y ago
Dude, don't tempt me to add sound :P
- blueblob 13y agoSound is cool at first but then gets way annoying. I had never heard of radix sort, 0 comparisons. Are you planning on adding more sorting algorithms like mergesort?
- lolo_ 13y agoYeah, I am kidding - don't worry I won't, I can imagine that getting pretty irritating :P I did this as a quick hack on a whim about a year ago (was a visualisation I wanted to see but couldn't find one quite like this), I am pleasantly surprised by the positivity on this (I kinda posted it on a whim), so I think I will probably hack on it again :-) It's tempting to code up a whole bunch of sorting algorithms, merge and heap sort are definitely high on the list.
- peff 13y agoRadix sort is one of those tricks that doesn't help often, but every once in a while can produce spectacular results. Here it is showing a 4x speedup on a particular operation in git: https://github.com/git/git/commit/8b8dfd5132ce91f632b5303c39cda2dfe30790f1 https://github.com/git/git/commit/8b8dfd5132ce91f632b5303c39...
- nni 13y agoI've played with sound as well with sort visualizations - it has been disappointing and more irritating than enlightening, but maybe there's a proper angle on it somebody will find that adds to the understanding of the algorithm. And as the others have said - your rainbow viz is really nice, in a lot of ways :)
- lloeki 13y agoI find this visual+audio version both entertaining and genuinely useful as tracking changes in multiple sounds at the same time that quickly, combined with the visual process gives more tangibility to the algorithm. Plus the punchline was unexpected and fits well to a "credits" part.
- yxhuvud 13y agoI will always remember 'Sorting out Sorting'. Should exist on the web somewhere if you havn't seen it.