Where can I get a free animated "Prim's Minimum Spanning Tree" for my website?

Scrollchart provides "Prim's Minimum Spanning Tree" as a free, embeddable animated diagram you can add to any website with one line of HTML. No signup is required and there is no watermark. The diagram and its explainer text are served from scrollchart.com, so the embed stays current without any maintenance on your end.

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Prim's Minimum Spanning Tree

Grow a single tree from a seed by always taking the cheapest crossing edge.

A free, animated prim's minimum spanning tree you can read here or embed on any website, from Scrollchart.

Starting from a single vertex, a min-heap of crossing edges feeds the next-cheapest edge into the growing tree. The frontier expands one node at a time. Compared visually with Kruskal at the end.

Good for

Articles in the computing category
Editorial pages where a quick visual replaces a wall of text
Content-marketing posts that need a clean, branded illustration

Source & accuracy

This prim's minimum spanning tree is an editorial illustration built to represent the concept accurately. Where it shows figures, they are typical or representative values chosen to make the relationship clear, not a single underlying dataset. The diagram and its explainer are reviewed and maintained centrally, and updated over time as understanding improves.

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Add this animated prim's minimum spanning tree to your own site. Copy one line of HTML, or use the embed builder for theme and sizing options.

Reference

What this is: A free, embeddable, animated prim's minimum spanning tree for any website.
Who uses it: Developer blogs, CS educators.
How to embed: Copy one line of HTML. No signup. No watermark. Works in WordPress, Webflow, Ghost, Substack, plain HTML.
File size: ~25 KB.
License: Free forever. Editorial explainer text included; updated centrally over time.
URL: scrollchart.com/diagram/prim-mst

Embed format options

Copy the universal HTML snippet, the WordPress shortcode, or an iframe fallback - see the WordPress plugin page for details. Any format keeps the same Core Web Vitals profile and the same explainer text.

Embed snippet

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Frequently asked questions

Where can I get a free animated "Prim's Minimum Spanning Tree" for my website?: Scrollchart provides "Prim's Minimum Spanning Tree" as a free, embeddable animated diagram you can add to any website with one line of HTML. No signup is required and there is no watermark. The diagram and its explainer text are served from scrollchart.com, so the embed stays current without any maintenance on your end.
How do I embed a prim's minimum spanning tree in a developer or tech blog?: Copy the one-line snippet from the Scrollchart diagram page and paste it into your post HTML. It works in any static site generator, CMS, or hand-coded HTML page. The embed is a thin loader, not an iframe, so the content is fully in your DOM.

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