Color Merge Sort
Creative
sorting visualization
SHOW HN2017
35points
8comments
#975of 2,242 in 2017
Top 44%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
1 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Design: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Animation looks neat and illustrative of how local arrangement works
From 2 comments
Pretty neat! One suggestion I'd make is to make the animation a bit slower or allow custom speeds to be set. It's currently a little to fast for my taste.
dmlittle on HNWell done! Showing multiple spectra as merge approaches one unit is very illustrative of how local the arrangement really is.
sova on HN
Objections
Animation is too fast
From 1 comment
Pretty neat! One suggestion I'd make is to make the animation a bit slower or allow custom speeds to be set. It's currently a little to fast for my taste.
dmlittle on HN
Similar colors are hard to distinguish
From 1 comment
I think showing them as bars with different heights is more illustrative, like: https://www.toptal.com/developers/sorting-algorithms. Similar colors are hard to distinguish.
kristofferc on HN
Questioned whether merge sort is efficient
From 1 comment
Super nice. But is this really an efficient sorting algorithm?
fiatjaf on HN
Requests
Allow slower or custom animation speeds
From 1 comment
Pretty neat! One suggestion I'd make is to make the animation a bit slower or allow custom speeds to be set. It's currently a little to fast for my taste.
dmlittle on HN
Show sorting as bars with different heights
From 1 comment
I think showing them as bars with different heights is more illustrative, like: https://www.toptal.com/developers/sorting-algorithms. Similar colors are hard to distinguish.
kristofferc on HN
Questions
Is merge sort really an efficient sorting algorithm?
From 1 comment
Super nice. But is this really an efficient sorting algorithm?
fiatjaf on HN
Alternatives named
Toptal sorting algorithm visualizations
From 1 comment
I think showing them as bars with different heights is more illustrative, like: https://www.toptal.com/developers/sorting-algorithms. Similar colors are hard to distinguish.
kristofferc on HN