How does shortest-path algorithms work?
I was left was this question after learning about Dijkstra and A* in the course TDAT2004 Datacommunication and Networks. To answer this question I wanted to visualize the algorithms by animating the search and the path found.
Result
The result was a website created using React. To differ between different nodes and to animate the search i used CSS. The application lets users pick a start and end point, and put up walls that make the path finding more complicated. Furthermore the user can choose whether the A* or Dijkstra algorithm should be used for the search.