Six Degrees of Black Sabbath

[undyingking]

A fairly self-explanatory web app toy that does the connectivity thing with musical collaborations. Who would have thought that the shortest path from Pink Floyd to Men at Work passed through Roxy Music and Jethro Tull?

It's powered by the excellent MusicBrainz database, which I thoroughly recommend in its own right.

So far, after a handful of queries, the longest shortest chain I've found is 16, from the aforementioned Floyd to The Knife (which goes via Motorhead...). But I'm sure you can do much better.

The author's interesting (to me, at least) blog post about it is here.

Comments

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

Mika to Mike Batt, 26 steps. Mika to The Wombles, 19 steps via Mike Batt.
Hmm...

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Hmm indeed; that would seem to cast a little doubt upon the whole algorithm. You should drop him a line of complaint.