Path Wars Bonus : The End Credits
Path Wars II : The End Credits
As I’m teaching a course this term on Algorithms and another on Data Analysis and Machine Learning, I’ve been using ChatGPT to generate some colourful, alternative explanations for some of the topics of both courses and posting them here. (Part 1**, Part 3)
A fun follow-on to my previous post about my first ChatGPT query about Jedi Master Dijkstra. That was fun, and I have some other comments later on the outputs of these Large Language Models (LLMs). But to complete my lecture on Dijkstra’s algorithm I injected this generated opening crawl into the lecture. So it seemed fitting the make the end credits as well. They’re even more arcanely nerdy, but quite fun if you know enough about planning and graph algorithms.
My lecture for Dijkstra’s algorithm is live now as well and can be seen here.
End Credits
ChatGPT Prompt: list of shortest path graph algorithms as a movie end credits
Title: Shortest Path
Directed by: Graph Theory
Starring: Dijkstra, Bellman-Ford, Floyd-Warshall, A*, Johnson
Executive Producer: Edsger W. Dijkstra
Co-Producers: Richard Bellman, Robert Floyd, Stephen Warshall, Peter Hart, Nils Nilsson
Screenplay by: A* Search Algorithm
We’ve all just been living in A*’s dream all these years.
Cinematography by: Joseph Johnson
Music by: Depth-First Search
Special Effects by: Breadth-First Search
Location Manager: Randomized Algorithms
yes.
Casting Director: Kruskal’s Algorithm
Art Director: Prim’s Algorithm
Costume Designer: Hopcroft-Karp Algorithm
obviously
Makeup Artist: Edmonds-Karp Algorithm
Hair Stylist: Viterbi Algorithm
Oddly satisfying.
Stunt Coordinator: Bidirectional Search
Visual Effects Supervisor: Hierarchical Pathfinding
Production Designer: Transitive Closure
Sound Designer: Aho-Corasick Algorithm
Post-Production Supervisor: Ford-Fulkerson Algorithm
Title Designer: Topological Sorting
Marketing: Social Network Analysis
Distributors: Depth-First Search and Breadth-First Search
Oh, this feels right.
Thanks to all the graph theorists and computer scientists who contributed to the development of these algorithms.