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Mergesort III
license: gpl-3.0

A static visualization of mergesort. Each row represents the state of the array after a single pass. The size of the sorted subarrays doubles with each successive pass.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
body {
padding: 10px 0;
}
svg {
float: left;
}
.line {
stroke: #000;
stroke-width: 1.5px;
stroke-linecap: round;
}
.line--inactive {
stroke: #ddd;
stroke-width: 1px;
}
</style>
<body>
<script src="//d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script>
var n = 200,
array = d3.shuffle(d3.range(n)),
arrays = mergesort(array.slice());
var margin = {top: 6, right: 30, bottom: 6, left: 30},
width = 960 - margin.left - margin.right,
height = 50 - 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(arrays)
.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) + ")"; })
.attr("y2", -height);
function mergesort(array) {
var arrays = [array.slice()],
n = array.length,
array0 = array,
array1 = new Array(n);
for (var m = 1; m < n; m <<= 1) {
for (var i = 0; i < n; i += (m << 1)) {
merge(i, Math.min(i + m, n), Math.min(i + (m << 1), n));
}
arrays.push(array1.slice());
array = array0, array0 = array1, array1 = array;
}
function merge(left, right, end) {
for (var i0 = left, i1 = right, j = left; j < end; ++j) {
array1[j] = array0[i0 < right && (i1 >= end || array0[i0] <= array0[i1]) ? i0++ : i1++];
}
}
return arrays;
}
d3.select(self.frameElement).style("height", (height + margin.top + margin.bottom) * arrays.length + 20 + "px");
</script>
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