PhD student Timo Bingmann has created an amazing video showing sorting algorithms in action. And it's surprisingly awesome!

AMOS O. OLAGUNJU, AN IMPROVED HEAP SORT ALGORITHM, Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, Vol. 115, No. 2 (SUMMER, 1999), pp. 82-90 ...

In our scheme, we have implemented a hardware based heap sorting algorithm to select Ci (active) max . Each of the urgency counter Ci are placed at the nodes of a binary tree. Like the conventional ...