Musical quick sort (drums)

Suppose you drop a set of drums and they land randomly ordered in a row on the floor. You want to put the drums back in order but can only pick up and swap two at a time. A good strategy to minimize the number of swaps you must make is to follow the Quicksort algorithm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort).

If you order the drums by their general MIDI number and simultaneously strike any two which you swap then you will produce a sound similar to this.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• quicksort
• quick
• sort
• MIDI
• STK

[harfenuegle]

the art of computer programming anyone?

[jarblewarble]

@harfenuegle Computer science is just awesome.