Connected Component

Connected components are part of topology and graph theory, two related branches of mathematics.

  • For the graph-theoretic concept, see connected component (graph theory).
  • In topology: connected component (topology).

Implementations:

  • Connected-component labeling is an algorithm in image processing.

Famous quotes containing the words connected and/or component:

    “Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else.... For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.”
    —John Berger (b. 1926)

    “... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.”
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