The Region Quadtree Demo from U-Maryland was invaluable in teaching me how PR Quadtrees worked.
http://wiki.algoviz.org/AlgovizWiki/Viz/RegionQuadtree
As a GTA for a data structures course last year, I had several students come to my office hours to inquire about the Union-Find structure, particularly the case where path compression is enabled. I didn’t really understand path compression until after looking at Virginia Tech’s Union-Find viz.
http://wiki.algoviz.org/AlgovizWiki/Viz/VtUnionFind
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