v1.4.1

Release v1.4.1

Refactoring & Improvements

• refactor(control): Organize package into logical subpackages for better code organization
• refactor(settings): Extract UI into themed components and cards for improved maintainability
• refactor(control): Split MainController state/session concerns for cleaner separation
• test(headless): Initialize color gradient before visualization tests for reliability

Build

• JAR artifact: sorting-visualizer.jar (273KB)
• Requires Java 25 or later

Download sorting-visualizer.jar

v1.4.0

What's New in v1.4.0

New Features & Visualizations

• New visualizations: CubicLines and MosaicSquares
• Enhanced existing 3D models and visual performance

Architecture & Code Quality

• Modularized architecture with strategy patterns
• Headless rendering support for non-GUI environments
• Comprehensive unit tests for sorting algorithms
• Java 25 support with updated CI/CD pipeline
• Improved code organization and reduced build warnings

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Settings window resizing on Linux
• Better handling of time measurements after algorithm runs
• Improved algorithm selection after custom reorder

Documentation

• Modernized README with improved navigation and structure

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Full source code and pre-built JAR available below.

v1.3.4

What's Changed

• Introduced several new visuals
  • Plane
  • Disparity Plane
  • Pyramid
  • Morphing Shell
  • Disparity Chords
  • .. and more
• Enhanced the Cube visual
• Updated MultiGradient saturation and brightness
• Improved visual time performance for arrays with more than 2000 elements
• Refactored and simplified the build and run modules
• Fixed outdated dependencies
• Increased the maximum number of sortable elements to 20,000
• Made items in the runall-settings panel moveable -> custom run-order
• Addressed various bugs

v1.3.3

What's Changed

• Added new sorting algorithms and visuals - in total now 22 sorting algorithms and 19 visuals.
• Enhanced Sphere and Cube visuals.
• Introduced Image Horizontal and Vertical.
• Switched renderer from P2D to P3D.
• Fixed various bugs for better stability.

v1.3.2

What's Changed

• bugfix - cancel button not being disabled after sorting
• bugfix - mute checkbox not working if activated before sorting
• bugfix - unwanted shuffle reset after sorting
• removed unused dependencies - Visualizer should now work on Mac

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CompilerStuck/sorting-visualizer/commits/v1.3.2

v1.3.1

Features

• Changing the array size
• Selecting algorithms / Run all algorithms
• Changing the shuffle type
• Selecting one of 16 Visualizations - two of those are 3D Models
• Selecting different color gradients and creating your own!
• Showing Measurements during the execution
• Sorted Percentage
• Counting Comparisons
• Measuring the estimated Real Time
• Counting Swaps
• Counting Writes to the main Array
• Counting Writes to possible auxiliary Arrays
• Displaying a comparison table at the end to compare algorithms
• Playing / Muting Sound
• Canceling the current execution