On: Show HN: Illustrated Quicksort algorithm

[skidding]

Hi. This is my 2nd algoritm visualization. Creating them is fun.

Besides designing the illustrations, I've spent a lot of time crafting the framework so expect more of these in the future. Ongoing effort, but also tried to make the codebase approachable for others to learn from and be able to contribute: https://github.com/skidding/illustrated-algorithms

How would you make algorithms fun? Looking forward to ideas and feedback. Thanks!

[deanc → skidding]

Looks great. Have an option to slow it down though. I couldn't follow the animation and the code on the right it was going so quickly.

[skidding → deanc]

Makes sense. I'm curious, is the fact that you can drag the progress bar back&forth to create a slow motion obvious?

[croon → skidding]

Without ever testing it (bad me, bad!) I assumed it was (at least) for jumping back to a frame.

It would be more obvious that it could be used as a slider if it had a graphical slider. [1]

Either way, great work!

[1] http://www.infotuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/rangeslid...

[deanc → skidding]

Sure but it would be nice to step through at your own pace rather than by intricately dragging a mouse and having to hold the click.

[skidding → deanc]

You mean via back/fwd buttons? Those are definitely useful. Fun trivia, this is how the 1st prototype worked: https://github.com/skidding/illustrated-algorithms/releases (scroll to bottom)

[deanc → skidding]

That would be nice but auto play is good. Just allow 2-3 options for the speed of a tick.

[baby → skidding]

yup, I naturally grabbed it to go back and forth.