Push Swap Visualizer

This project is a visualizer for the "PUSH_SWAP" 42 School Project.

Push Swap is a program that takes as argument a space separated list of numbers and outputs a list of commands that can be used to sort them.

You can read the subject here.

Usage

• If you add the program inside your project, you will need to add ../../ before the name of your program to make the visualizer work.

• In the Values window

  • Choose the size of the push swap input with the slider [Optional]
  • Shuffle the input [Optional]
  • The space separated values should be filled automatically, you can also put your own values
  • Set the Push Swap program path (Absolute or relative path).
  • Compute the sort commands, it will display OK when done.

• In the Controls window

  • Load the commands in the visualizer
  • Start the animation
  • Adjust the Speed as needed
  • Pause and go Step by step to see the details of your algorithm.
  • Load to restart the animation

Install

This project uses C++17, cmake, SFML and ImGui.

• Install a C++ compiler (gcc, clang,...)
• Install cmake
• Move push_swap_visualizer inside push_swap
• Inside push_swap_visualizer, mkdir :
  • 'build'
• cd in the build folder and type :
  • 'cmake ..'
  • 'make'
• run the visualizer with ./bin/visualizer