πŸ” Search Algorithms Visualizer

The Problem: Navigate from the green start to the red goal on a 2-D grid of passable cells and impassable walls. Each step costs 1 unit. The 14 algorithms below explore the grid with different strategies β€” compare how each shapes the visited region, path quality, and speed. Left-click/drag to toggle walls.

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Live Stats

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Start
Goal
Wall
Visited (fwd)
Visited (bwd)
Frontier
Path found
RRT nodes
D* replan
Ready
Uninformed
Informed / Heuristic
Memory-Bounded / Iterative
Probabilistic / Sampling
2.5 (1 = optimal A*, 5 = very fast/suboptimal)
⚑ D* Lite active β€” draw new walls on the grid and watch it replan!
Tip: Left-click / drag canvas to toggle walls  Β·  Reset generates a new random maze