This is AI Generated focused on visuals not code quality. Raylib-based visual lab for exploring string algorithms as moving geometry instead of static formulas.

The app ships with four canvases:

• 1 Borders: prefix function and Z-array on the same sample string
• 2 KMP: animated pattern matching with explicit failure jumps
• 3 Suffix: suffix array ordering plus LCP adjacency structure
• 4 Aho: trie edges, fail links, and multi-pattern scanning

Each page is built around one stable string example and an animated stepper driven by time.

• Borders: prefix/suffix reuse becomes visible as copied spans and border arrows
• KMP: the pattern row slides across the text while fallback jumps reuse prior work
• Suffix: lexicographic suffix neighborhoods and repeated substrings show up through LCP highlights
• Aho: goto edges consume characters, fail links preserve the longest viable suffix state

SPACE pauses the animation so you can inspect a frame without the state advancing.

Every page now also includes:

• a compact pseudocode panel with the currently active lines highlighted
• a short “why this happened” panel that explains the causal reason for the current transition

• 1 2 3 4: switch pages
• SPACE: pause or resume the animated algorithm state
• r: reset camera and runtime state
• q: quit
• mouse drag or middle mouse: pan
• mouse wheel: zoom around cursor
• h j k l: fine pan nudges
• click minimap: jump camera within the current page

• raylib
• a C compiler such as cc/clang
• optional: pkg-config so the Makefile can auto-detect Raylib flags; otherwise it falls back to RAYLIB_DIR (default /opt/homebrew)

make
make run

This repo is now a reusable shell for deeper string-tech explorations. Useful next pages to add:

• suffix automaton or suffix tree state growth
• rolling hash and substring equality geometry
• Manacher palindrome radii
• wavelet tree or FM-index rank/select views
• edit distance and alignment DP surfaces