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14th April 2009 - Link Blog

Visualising Sorting Algorithms. Aldo Cortesi dislikes animations of sorting algorithms, so he designed a beautiful technique for statically visualising them instead (using Python and Cairo to generate the images).

Posted 14th April 2009 at 8:55 am

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