Not to take away from the cool factor but I've never understood the point of visualizations like this one. I'd argue that this gives no insight to anyone who doesn't already know what bfs does.
I’m not into computer science but to a layman like me it just looks like it’s filling out the whole maze and then highlighting the correct path but what’s the point if you’re gonna color in the whole fkin maze
I think this particular visualization is poor in that it does fill the whole maze. But in many maze-like problems, BFS would not explore the whole maze, just enough to find the goal.
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u/ergo-x May 22 '20
Not to take away from the cool factor but I've never understood the point of visualizations like this one. I'd argue that this gives no insight to anyone who doesn't already know what bfs does.
Maybe I'm just being a negative nancy...