Fisher-Yates shuffle -- visualized with some cool d3.js

Started by Darren Dirt, January 09, 2019, 11:01:57 AM

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Darren Dirt

https://bost.ocks.org/mike/shuffle/

one of countless examples of the wide variety of d3.js awesomeness possible -- https://d3js.org


"Using Vision to Think"
wow, this is a really cool way to understand complex algorithms.
Skim the page as it describes some algos, and imagine if there were only words, no animations!
For example (especially?)  https://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/#maze-generation (maze paths are just TREES, folks)

^ and on the topic of COLOUR, there is a link from there to "Rainbow Maps Considered Harmful" -- Mr. Analog might find this interesting:
https://eagereyes.org/basics/rainbow-color-map
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