Hi all! I’ve hit a roadblock in trying to find the shortest path through a list of points. So far I’ve been able to connect the path in order of distance away from the control point (0,0) which essentially works, but the overall distance traveled is much greater than what the minimum can be, isn’t …

Sounds like the traveling salesman problem. Did a quick google search, blatantly copied all the code from here: [PythonPro] Python Traveling Salesman Greedy Algorithm python, algorithm asked by PythonPro on 12:26AM - 31 May 15 UTC …

Shortest Path through Points (connect the dots)

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dana.g December 21, 2017, 7:27pm 3

Thank you for the lead @Ewan_Opie! I’ll be trying this out as soon as possible!

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Shortest Path through Points (connect the dots)

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