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Revolving-door Gray code for all 4-vertex graphs [video]

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34 points by fs123 4 years ago · 6 comments

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fs123OP 4 years ago

In February 2022, Don Knuth found a cool graph which contains all 4-vertex graphs as subgraphs. Furthermore, they can be visited in revolving-door Gray code order.

He reported about it in exercise 291 in pre-fasicle 7a, and asked if someone could make an animated video of it. This is my attempt at it.

Any remarks or suggestions for improvement are welcome.

  • iconjack 4 years ago

    Fantastic. The audio (as suggested by Knuth) is a nice touch. If people don't like it, they can easily mute.

    • fs123OP 4 years ago

      Thanks. The original idea by Knuth was to have each vertex have both a separate tune and a separate instrument/timbre, with each combination sounding not too bad.

      I couldn't make this sound good with 8 separate instruments, so I went for the next best thing: a single instrument, with each vertex playing one note (0->B, 1->C,...7->a).

  • justinsaccount 4 years ago

    suggestion: remove the audio.

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