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Quicksort II
license: gpl-3.0

Another visualization of quicksort. Here, each row corresponds to the state of the array prior to recursing into each partition. The red lines represent the pivots.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
body {
padding: 10px 0;
}
svg {
float: left;
}
.line {
stroke: #000;
stroke-linecap: round;
}
.line--pivot {
stroke: #f00;
stroke-width: 3px;
}
.line--inactive {
stroke: #ddd;
}
</style>
<body>
<script src="//d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script>
var n = 200,
array = d3.shuffle(d3.range(n)),
levels = quicksort(array);
var margin = {top: 2, right: 20, bottom: 2, left: 20},
width = 960 - margin.left - margin.right,
height = 30 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
var x = d3.scale.ordinal()
.domain(d3.range(n))
.rangePoints([0, width]);
var a = d3.scale.linear()
.domain([0, n - 1])
.range([-45, 45]);
var svg = d3.select("body").selectAll("svg")
.data(levels)
.enter().append("svg")
.attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr("height", height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "line")
.selectAll("line")
.data(function(d) { return d; })
.enter().append("line")
.attr("transform", function(d, i) { return "translate(" + x(i) + "," + height + ")rotate(" + a(d == null ? i : d) + ")"; })
.attr("class", function(d, i) { return d == null ? "line--inactive" : i in this.parentNode.__data__.pivots ? "line--pivot" : null; })
.attr("y2", -height);
function quicksort(array) {
var levels = [];
function partition(left, right, pivot) {
var v = array[pivot];
swap(pivot, --right);
for (var i = left; i < right; ++i) if (array[i] <= v) swap(i, left++);
swap(left, right);
return left;
}
function swap(i, j) {
var t = array[i];
array[i] = array[j];
array[j] = t;
}
function recurse(left, right, depth) {
var pivot = (left + right) >> 1;
if (!levels[depth]) levels[depth] = new Array(array.length), levels[depth].pivots = {};
for (var i = left; i < right; ++i) levels[depth][i] = array[i];
levels[depth].pivots[pivot] = 1;
pivot = partition(left, right, pivot);
if (left < pivot - 1) recurse(left, pivot, depth + 1);
if (pivot + 1 < right - 1) recurse(pivot + 1, right, depth + 1);
}
if (array.length > 1) recurse(0, array.length, 0);
return levels;
}
d3.select(self.frameElement).style("height", (height + margin.top + margin.bottom) * levels.length + 20 + "px");
</script>
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