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You know what impossible figures are, right? No, not Barbie dolls, I mean, in the cognitive or math sense, as in - something that is physically unachievable, but because you're looking at it in 2-D on the screen, seems reasonable. Ok, fine, Barbie counts too (as do comic characters, the female ones in particular.  Also, anything by Rob Liefeld) The one to the right has always been one of my favorites - its a Penrose Triangle. Yup, that Penrose.  The one with the seriously awesome mind and the Kleenex lawsuit . It is seriously cool, and has even made it onto a postage stamp :-)   Incidentally, if the above looks vaguely Escher-like, its not surprising - it was inspired by some of Escher's works.   Incidentally, Escher's most famous paintings (the staircase one, and the waterfall) were inspired by an article that Penrose wrote.  From Teh Wikipedia As a student in 1954, Penrose was attending a conference in Amsterdam when by ch...

via Carlo Zapponi , this is an attempt to visualize and help to understand how some of the most famous sorting algorithms work. This project provides two standpoints to look at algorithms, one is more  artistic  (apologies to any real artist out there), the other is more  analytical  aiming at explaining algorithm step by step.  This project does not want to teach the theory of sorting algorithms, there are amazing resources, books and courses for this purpose.  SORTING  is for the ones who want to see these algorithms under a different ligth and hopefully appreciate the processing and brain power behind these piece of genius that in many ways have changed the way we live. Go check it out, its beautiful, visually arresting, and eminently understandable .

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