What different sorting algorithms sound like

Batsu wrote: post #4

meatmanek wrote: post #3

What, no quick sort? And no heap sort?

There was a link to the heapsort at the end: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXAjiDQbPSw

That is by far the coolest sounding of the bunch.

Re: What different sorting algorithms sound like

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Post by scotth » Thu, Aug 19, 2010, 5:41 AM UTC

muyyatin wrote: post #2

It would be interesting to listen to graph algorithms.

What do you imagine would determine frequency?

Re: What different sorting algorithms sound like

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Post by keyle » Thu, Aug 19, 2010, 5:44 AM UTC

That was really cool. Is the speed indicative of the speed of the sort?

Re: What different sorting algorithms sound like

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Post by mhansen » Thu, Aug 19, 2010, 5:59 AM UTC

There's a lot of effort been put in to this, I like it.

I love that you can hear the bubbling in bubble sort :D

Re: What different sorting algorithms sound like

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Post by simonista » Thu, Aug 19, 2010, 6:21 AM UTC

keyle wrote: post #8

That was really cool. Is the speed indicative of the speed of the sort?

I'm not sure, but the visual part of the videos looks a lot like visualizations I've seen in algorithms classes where the speed does represent the speed of the sort. So I'd guess that it does here as well.

These are really great. As a musical person it engrained these concepts that much deeper for me. My wife, who is not much of a computer science person like the merge sort the best.