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Tarjan's strongly connected components algorithm in Javascript - followed pseudocode from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarjan%E2%80%99s_strongly_connected_components_algorithm
window.onload = function() {
var v0 = new Vertex("0");
var v1 = new Vertex("1");
var v2 = new Vertex("2");
var v3 = new Vertex("3");
var v4 = new Vertex("4");
var v5 = new Vertex("5");
var v6 = new Vertex("6");
var v7 = new Vertex("7");
var v8 = new Vertex("8");
var v9 = new Vertex("9");
var v10 = new Vertex("10");
var v11 = new Vertex("11");
var v12 = new Vertex("12");
v0.connections.push(v1);
v0.connections.push(v5);
v2.connections.push(v0);
v2.connections.push(v3);
v3.connections.push(v2);
v3.connections.push(v5);
v4.connections.push(v2);
v4.connections.push(v2);
v5.connections.push(v4);
v6.connections.push(v0);
v6.connections.push(v9);
v7.connections.push(v6);
v7.connections.push(v8);
v8.connections.push(v7);
v8.connections.push(v9);
v9.connections.push(v10);
v9.connections.push(v11);
v10.connections.push(v12);
v11.connections.push(v4);
v11.connections.push(v12);
v12.connections.push(v9);
var vertices = [v0,v1,v2,v3,v4,v5,v6,v7,v8,v9,v10,v11,v12];
var graph = new Graph(vertices);
var tarjan = new Tarjan(graph);
var scc = tarjan.run();
console.log(scc);
};
function Graph(vertices){
this.vertices = vertices || [];
}
function Vertex(name){
this.name = name || null;
this.connections = [];
// used in tarjan algorithm
// went ahead and explicity initalized them
this.index= -1;
this.lowlink = -1;
}
Vertex.prototype = {
equals: function(vertex){
// equality check based on vertex name
return (vertex.name && this.name==vertex.name);
}
};
function VertexStack(vertices) {
this.vertices = vertices || [];
}
VertexStack.prototype = {
contains: function(vertex){
for (var i in this.vertices){
if (this.vertices[i].equals(vertex)){
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
};
function Tarjan(graph) {
this.index = 0;
this.stack = new VertexStack();
this.graph = graph;
this.scc = [];
}
Tarjan.prototype = {
run: function(){
for (var i in this.graph.vertices){
if (this.graph.vertices[i].index<0){
this.strongconnect(this.graph.vertices[i]);
}
}
return this.scc;
},
strongconnect: function(vertex){
// Set the depth index for v to the smallest unused index
vertex.index = this.index;
vertex.lowlink = this.index;
this.index = this.index + 1;
this.stack.vertices.push(vertex);
// Consider successors of v
// aka... consider each vertex in vertex.connections
for (var i in vertex.connections){
var v = vertex;
var w = vertex.connections[i];
if (w.index<0){
// Successor w has not yet been visited; recurse on it
this.strongconnect(w);
v.lowlink = Math.min(v.lowlink,w.lowlink);
} else if (this.stack.contains(w)){
// Successor w is in stack S and hence in the current SCC
v.lowlink = Math.min(v.lowlink,w.index);
}
}
// If v is a root node, pop the stack and generate an SCC
if (vertex.lowlink==vertex.index){
// start a new strongly connected component
var vertices = [];
var w = null;
if (this.stack.vertices.length>0){
do {
w = this.stack.vertices.pop();
// add w to current strongly connected component
vertices.push(w);
} while (!vertex.equals(w));
}
// output the current strongly connected component
// ... i'm going to push the results to a member scc array variable
if (vertices.length>0){
this.scc.push(vertices);
}
}
}
};
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gsb923 commented Aug 21, 2017

@sgress454 can you give code for circling.

@marius7383
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Thank you so much, saved me a lot of time!

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@marius7383 welcome :)

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lencioni commented Jul 6, 2022

Not sure if this is useful for anyone here, but I did a quick conversion of this gist to TypeScript: https://gist.github.com/lencioni/835beff2b231b6ef7d1c070adb5e583e

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