Visually compares Greedy, Local Search, and Simulated Annealing strategies for addressing the Traveling Salesman problem.
Thanks to the Discrete Optimization course on Coursera by Pascal Van Hentenryck for teaching me about this! http://www.coursera.org/course/optimization
Read more in this blog post: http://popcyclical.com/2013/08/19/TravelingSalesmanProblemVisualization.aspx
Sources:
City coordinates: http://www.geonames.org/export/
US Map: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mercator_Projection.svg
Music: http://soundcloud.com/poprhythm/clearly-opaque
