Posts about matplotlib

The flood fill algorithm has several high profile uses, most notably the bucket fill tool in image editing programs, as well as in games like Minesweeper. In this post we will go over how the tool works, as well as how to implement the algorithm.

Time series data is all the rage these days, and not just in fields like finance. In this post we will look at working with time series data in Pandas, how to do basic time-based manipulations and calculations such as rolling means and data shifting.

Voronoi diagrams are used in a variety of fields for a variety of reasons, including the art and design world. This post is Part II in a series on mazes, where I will generate and solve random mazes from Voronoi diagrams using Python and Matplotlib.

Computing the convex hull of a set of points is a fundamental problem in computational geometry, and the Graham scan is a common algorithm for it. In this post we will implement the algorithm in Python and look at interesting uses of convex hulls.

We've been into mazes for thousands of years. Some can be tricky to navigate, but we can solve them pretty quickly in a few lines of code, using well-known path-finding algorithms. All visualized in matplotlib.