ArrayV

Over 200 sorting algorithms animated with 15 unique graphic designs

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To compile use:

./mvnw clean verify

To run use:

./run

Alternatively, you can double click on "run" or "run.bat" on Windows.

You can always download the most up-to-date pre-built JAR from GitHub Actions (link via nightly.link).

Legacy changelog

6/8/2020 - Version 3.5

• NEW VISUALS: Sine Wave and Wave Dots!!
• New sort: Bogobogosort
• The bogo shuffle method is now unbiased
• MultipleSortThreads further refactored
• Visuals, VisualStyles enum, and Renderer significantly refactored (more to come!)

6/4/2020 - Version 3.2

• New sort: Optimized Cocktail Shaker Sort
• Significant refactoring for MultipleSortThreads and RunAllSorts
• "Run All" button approx. time simplified
• Modified delays for Binary Gnomesort
• Documentation of GCC's median-of-three pivot selection in Introsort

6/3/2020 - Version 3.12

• Counting Sort fixed
• Optimized Bubblesort now optimized for already sorted inputs
• Speeds for Quicksorts and Weave Merge during "Run All Sorts" improved

6/2/2020 - Version 3.11

• Minor update to MIT license
• Fixed typo in Flipped Min Heapsort
• Improved highlights on Heapsorts (Already sorted heaps now display redundant comparisons)
• Bug fix for Patiencesort on reversed arrays
• Quicksorts exhibiting worst-case behavior during "Run All Sorts" run much faster
• Same tweak as above to Weave Merge Sort

5/30/2020 - Version 3.1

• Error messages with detailed information will now appear within the program!
• Sound effects are now consistent on all platforms
• New sort: "Flipped Min Heap Sort" by 'landfillbaby'!
• Minor changes to code organization
• New webhook to my Discord server! Check it out here: https://discord.com/invite/2xGkKC2

5/22/2020 - Version 3.01

• Quick bug fix to the "Linked Dots" visual; The first line is no longer horizontal.

5/21/2020 - Version 3.0 is now released!

• Sound effects are much more pleasant at slower speeds
• Revamped "Run All Sorts" (It is now easier to create your own sequence of sorts!)
• More accurate delay algorithm
• Improved random shuffle algorithm (now with 0% bias!)
• Cleaner statistics
• Sort an array up to 16,384 (2^14) numbers!
• The "green sweep" animation also verifies an array is properly sorted after watching a sort. If a sort fails, a warning message pops up, highlighting where the first out-of-order item is.
• Minor tweak to the sort time method. It should be a slight bit more accurate now.
• Slowsort and Sillysort's comparisons are now shown.
• Gravity Sort has a more detailed visual now
• Pancake Sorting is fixed
• Counting Sort is fixed
• Holy Grail Sort is enabled, but just note that it's a mock algorithm; not finished yet.
• "Auxillary" typo fixed; program now says 'Writes to Auxiliary Array(s)'
• Bug fixes and minor tweaks
  • Minor fixes to "Skip Sort" button
  • Weird static line bug with linked dots squashed
  • Other miscellaneous fixes and changes here and there

10/19/2019 - Version 2.1

• Both Odd-Even Mergesorts now display comparisons
• PDQSort's Insertion Sorts have been slowed down
• New sorts, courtesy of Piotr Grochowski (https://github.com/PiotrGrochowski/ArrayVisualizer):
  • Iterative Pairwise Sorting Network
  • Recursive Pairwise Sorting Network
  • Recursive Combsort

10/13/2019 - Version 2.0 is now released!

• Now includes 73 sorting algorithms, with 2 more that will be finished in the future
  • NEW SORTS:
  • Unoptimized Bubble Sort
  • Rotation-based In-Place Merge Sort
  • "Lazy Stable Sort" from Andrey Astrelin's GrailSort
  • Grail sorting with a static buffer
  • Grail sorting with a dynamic buffer
  • Andrey Astrelin's "SqrtSort"
  • CircleSort
  • Introspective CircleSort
  • Orson Peters' "Pattern-Defeating Quicksort" (PDQSort)
  • Branchless PDQSort
  • Morwenn's implementation of "Poplar Heapsort"
  • Recursive Binary Quicksort
  • Iterative Binary Quicksort
  • Iterative Bitonic Sort
  • Iterative Odd-Even Mergesort
  • "Bubble Bogosort"
  • "Exchange Bogosort"
  • Treesort
  • Optimized Gnomesort with Binary Search
  • "Cocktail Mergesort" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWubJgIWyxQ)
  • NOTE: "Quick Shell Sort" has been removed.
• Significantly refactored code, more object-oriented
• Optimized visuals -- the program runs smoother than ever!
• Plug-and-play functionality -- using classgraph, you can now easily add your own sorting algorithms to the program! Documentation on that will be available in the future.
• Sort delay system redesigned -- you can now change the speed of the program in the middle of a delayed compare or swap
• Speed dialogue is now disabled while other windows are open
• WikiSort no longer gets stuck on sorting its internal buffer
• Tweaks to TimSort, mostly reimplementing its binary insertion sort
• Binary Insertion Sort is now stable
• The write/swap counts for inputs already sorted are fixed
• The main/auxillary array write counts for Bottom-up Merge are fixed
• Shuffling the array now clears the statistics
• The highest pitches of the program's sound effects are fixed
• Speeds for the "green sweep" and shuffling animations have been tweaked
• Shatter Sort's highlights slightly tweaked
• GrailSort's highlights slightly tweaked

KNOWN BUGS:

• Certain sorts (comb sort, radix sorts) cause the program to forget the current speed
• Certain sorts do not work with the "Skip Sort" button
• Missing soundfont
• SkaSort and HolyGrailSort produce errors -- this is normal, they aren't finished yet
• No circular pointer -- will be fixed soon

PLANS FOR FUTURE RELEASES:

• Javadocs!!
• SkaSort
• "Holy Grail Sort"
• Options to:
  • Enter in your own set of numbers
  • Select CombSort gap sequence
  • Select ShellSort gap sequence
  • Change TimSort "minrun" value
  • Change IntroSort threshold for insertion/heap sort
  • Change Simple Shatter Sort rate(?)
  • Stop Run All Sorts(?)
  • Stop TimeSort(?)
• Pre-shuffled arrays
• Organize list of sorts into more categories
• Run All Sorts in specific category
• Subheadings for customizable sorts (e.g. display the number of buckets during a bucket sort)
• "Pipe organ" distribution (half ascending, half descending)
• Fixed circular pointer with much cleaner math
• Toogle between pointer and black bar with circular visuals
• Refactor/reorganize prompts and frames
• Cleaner:
  • Tree Sort
  • getters/setters
  • method parameters
• Small organizational changes