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Graph Algorithms

Check out this list of algorithm animations and visualisations.

All of LaFore's Java applets can be downloaded from the website for his book, Algorithms and Data Structures in Java.

Some of them have found their way online: LaFore's undirected unweighted graph applet is quite nice, but a little bit buggy. There doesn't seem to be any way of resetting a graph other than clearing the canvas entirely and rebuilding it. Does both BFS and DFS.

Breadth First Search

A useful BFS animation. This one is particularly icky, using colour to illustrate the distance from the starting node and with unnecessary and obtrusive colour transitions.

Depth First Search

A useful DFS animation, better than the BFS one.

Topological Sort

LaFore's directed unweighted graph applet does a topological sort on a DAG.

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