Sorting Algorithms As Dances 68
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samzenpus
from the dancing-around-the-answer dept.
from the dancing-around-the-answer dept.
mikejuk writes "You may well have seen many simulations of sorting algorithms that aim to show how the algorithm works. However I guarantee that you have never seen anything quite in the same league as the videos made by Sapientia University — they are simply crazy but in the nicest possible way. They folk dance their way though bubble sort, shell sort, insertion sort and selection sort. Very, very weird but you find you can't but help checking that they are doing it right. Now anyone want to try quicksort?"
Re:5 minute video (Score:0, Insightful)
5 minute video. That's why we use computers for algorithms.
Did it ever occur to you that the purpose of this dance, and video, was not to actually *sort* the data in question?
It doesn't matter if it's taking five minutes for something that would've been finished in microseconds (if even that) on a modern computer. It's not about fastness; it's about illustrating how these algorithms work. Visualizing them, in a nutshell.
Sheesh. Either you're trolling, or Slashdotters are getting stupider by the week.
Re:Where is the quick sort or merge sort dances? (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, there's never been any kind of line dance where the dancers split into two groups, do stuff, and than merge back into the larger group in some ordered fashion....