Pathfinding Grid

About Pathfinding Grid

A search wavefront floods a walled grid cell by cell, then the shortest route between the two endpoints draws itself.

Part of Networks & AI. Runs 10 seconds by default, exports in 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5, as MP4 or transparent WebM up to 8K.

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