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A* Explorer

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A* Explorer is designed to help people understand the workings of the A* algorithm. It includes a lot of features including breakpoints and breaking conditions, stepping the A* algorithm, viewing the open and closed lists and much more. Here are a few screenshots showing some of the these features:

A* Explorer uses a more advanced, rewritten version of CPathfinder. The new version has a few additional callback function pointers to allow notification messages to be passed about.

Version 2.0

BETA Release 2 solves a variety of problems Release 1 had, plus adds a few new features.

Version 2.0 sports a large number of additional features including:

A brand new DLL-based interface. A* heuristics are now treated as plugins.
Map extensions. Program your own additions to A* Explorer easily and effectively.
Bitmap import feature. Import small bitmaps into A* Explorer to use as height maps.

Note that unfortunately, A* Explorer 2.0 Release 2 is not backwards compatible with old *.ASE maps.

Last Updated: 30/08/2002

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