Monotonic Stack Visual Breakdown

This visualisation uses AI Generated code, finetuned for the best visualisation, not code quality

monotonic_stack.mov

Interactive C + Raylib visual breakdown of a monotonic-stack solution, focused on how stack state, pending indices, and next-greater style answers evolve across a dense teaching layout.

What This Visualisation Shows

• Why a monotonic stack keeps only the still-relevant candidates
• How pushes and pops correspond to newly resolved answers
• How a brute-force scan differs from the stack-based solution path
• A 3x3-style breakdown that keeps the stack, source state, and answer state visible together

Visual Map

flowchart LR
    A["Input Sequence"]
    B["Maintain Monotonic Stack"]
    C["New Value Arrives"]
    D["Pop Weaker Candidates"]
    E["Resolve Pending Answers"]
    F["Push Current Index"]

    A --> B
    B --> C
    C --> D
    D --> E
    E --> F

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Controls

• q: quit
• The active scene surfaces the rest of its stepping and teaching controls in-app

Run

make run