Image talk:Sorting quicksort anim.gif

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Wow, fantastic animation. I think it should be nominated as a featured picture. --LesPaul75 06:14, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree, awesome animation. --Lukas Mach 17:17, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Did this picture ever get nominated?

I must say, very informative! - Ta bu shi da yu 08:35, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

This animation has been nominated and accepted as a Featured Picture. Here's a moving picture that's worth several thousand words ... it's a brilliant piece of work. Thanks, RolandH! CWC 16:35, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm liking it, but does it have to use a continuous set of increasing values? It could be a misleading about what the quicksort does. Perhaps a pair or two of equal values should also be included to demonstrate the response of the algorithm to these. I know the image just gained and deserves FP status, but I know that I'd support a transferral to one with a more varied dataset if it were created, as this would be even better. BigBlueFish 14:08, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking the same thing. How does the algorithm handle equal values? Foraneagle2

The Quicksort algorithm actually keeps track of three lists - values lower than the pivot, values equal to the pivot, and values greater than the pivot. It then (recursively) sorts the first and the last list, and then it concatenates the three lists, which is the return value. --MathiasRav (talk) 16:34, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Please add a link to Quicksort on the image's description page. Solitude\^talk 08:30, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Source?

Is the source for this image available? If so, could a similar image be made for the merge sort? silly rabbit (talk) 19:15, 3 May 2008 (UTC)