Jump Point Search Demonstration

• Created : 2015-06-14
• Last modified : 2015-07-20

A JPS implementation used to make these videos:

• Comparison of search algorithms (A*/JPS)
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• Comparison of search algorithms (Dijkstra/A*/JPS)
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Console Demo

$ ruby JumpPointSearch.rb road_map.txt -astar

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$ ruby JumpPointSearch.rb road_map.txt -jps

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Reference

• Online Graph Pruning for Pathfinding on Grid Maps [D. Harabor and A. Grastien. (2011)]

  • http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~dharabor/data/papers/harabor-grastien-aaai11.pdf

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_point_search

License

The zlib/libpng License ( http://opensource.org/licenses/Zlib ).

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