Ryan Kinal
100 E. St. Clair St.
Warren, PA 16365
716.581.1000
ryan.kinal@gmail.com
Ryan Kinal is a programmer and web developer, specializing in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS,
with experience in PHP, SQL, ASP.NET, and graphic design. But beyond being technologically inclined, he is also artistically motivated, through music, lindy hop, and drawing in various media. Combining these interests and talents, he is a skilled developer with an eye for aesthetic design.
The Knight's Tour is an interesting and fun little graph traversal problem that involves a chess board, and the piece known as a knight. Starting on a random square in the chess board, the knight moves as per the rules of chess, and visits each square once.
Pathfinding is usually a complicated process, with complex algorithms. However, under certain circumstances, the solution may be found in linear time. The Knight's tour is one of those circumstances.
This was a fun little piece of code to write, and it's fun to watch the algorithm do its thing, as you can see to the right (and if you refresh the page, it will use a different starting point).
Required Libraries
- jQuery 1.x