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A demo for Prim's algorithm based on Euclidean distance. In computer science, Prim's algorithm is a greedy algorithm that finds a minimum spanning tree for a weighted undirected graph. This means it finds a subset of the edges that forms a tree that includes every vertex, where the total weight of all the edges in the tree is minimized. The ...
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An animation of generating a 30 by 20 maze using Prim's algorithm. This algorithm is a randomized version of Prim's algorithm. Start with a grid full of walls. Pick a cell, mark it as part of the maze. Add the walls of the cell to the wall list. While there are walls in the list: Pick a random wall from the list.
English: Diagram to assist in proof of Prim's algorithm. If is a minimum spanning tree, and Y is the tree found by Prim's algorithm, we find e, the first edge added by the algorithm which is in but not in Y. Let V be the vertices added to the tree up to that point.
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The algorithm starts by choosing the cheapest edge out of A, then choosing the cheapest edge between {A,D} and {B,C} (there are two of weight 2, and BD is chosen arbitrarily). In the next step the edge AB is no longer a candidate because it now joins two nodes already in the tree, and the only edge remaining to be added is CD.
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Similarly to Prim's algorithm there are components in Kruskal's approach that can not be parallelised in its classical variant. For example, determining whether or not two vertices are in the same subtree is difficult to parallelise, as two union operations might attempt to join the same subtrees at the same time.