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:
“When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)