Comments on Entropy always increases: Visualising sorting algorithms

Beautiful way of visualizing algorithms . If you ...

2011-03-17T07:22:10.917-07:00

Beautiful way of visualizing algorithms .

If you want to visualize sorting algorithms in Java Applet form ( animated ) , also take a look at :
http://http://www.thelearningpoint.net/computer-science
( Java applet visualization for popular sorting algorithms - Bubble sort , merge , quick , insertion , shell sort )

That is really beautiful. Great!

2010-09-14T01:36:38.811-07:00

That is really beautiful. Great!

t-shirts....I wanna one !

2010-09-08T13:23:31.649-07:00

t-shirts....I wanna one !

pretty cool, those visualizations are awesome

2010-09-07T23:54:57.163-07:00

pretty cool, those visualizations are awesome

Sweet, Bruce :) I'm glad you did the other sor...

2010-09-06T13:46:04.899-07:00

Sweet, Bruce :) I'm glad you did the other sorting algorithms. Some of them are really intriguing to look at: bubble sort, heap sort and quick sort in particular.

Thanks Bruce. Spotted your post on Hacker News. I ...

2010-09-06T08:58:24.898-07:00

Thanks Bruce. Spotted your post on Hacker News. I was in Smuts 2004-2005 but I remember Jared Licina once going on about your brilliance! Joran Greef.

This is great because you can see which ones optim...

2010-09-06T07:01:56.762-07:00

This is great because you can see which ones optimize for locality. If you highlight CPU cache misses in there, this would be revelutionary.Then we could see which one is best on real hardware.

Very interesting... I approve of your thought proc...

2010-09-06T05:51:56.375-07:00

Very interesting... I approve of your thought processes.

ekas: it's showing virtual addresses and the &...

2010-09-06T00:30:42.815-07:00

ekas: it's showing virtual addresses and the "time" axis is simply the count of accesses rather than real time, so it's not affected by anything the OS does.

Very nice! One question: Would the outcome of this...

2010-09-06T00:01:37.424-07:00

Very nice! One question: Would the outcome of this be affected by the underlaying OS and it's memoryhandling (paging etc)?

Ooh, pretty! Love the bubblesort one. I once used...

2010-09-05T19:08:19.487-07:00

Ooh, pretty! Love the bubblesort one.

I once used a similar visualization idea for seeing how glibc qsort compares to the qsort described in K&R. ( Here's the writeup if you're interested.)

awesome

2010-09-05T18:35:33.177-07:00

awesome

Awesome visualization. Most intriguingly (to me) ...

2010-09-05T18:32:31.565-07:00

Awesome visualization. Most intriguingly (to me) is that the quadratic algorithms have an obvious parabolic shape/area.

Quicksort seems the have the most amount of black ...

2010-09-05T18:09:42.320-07:00

Quicksort seems the have the most amount of black pixels which implies less work.

I'm guessing the most efficient would be the one that looks the most organic or nature like.

Yeah I hope to have source on my website at some p...

2010-09-05T13:01:26.300-07:00

Yeah I hope to have source on my website at some point - still want to polish it and document it a little better.

Nice. Care to share source?

2010-09-05T12:35:08.778-07:00

Nice. Care to share source?

Beautiful. I want these as art prints.

2010-09-05T11:43:15.377-07:00

Beautiful. I want these as art prints.