qiao.github.io/PathFinding.js/visual
That's a really cool demonstration, thanks! Only messed with the three main pathfinding heuristics, but Manhattan way outperformed the others in my setup, which had numerous scattered intervening obstacles, with the end goal "behind" a curved wall.
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I tried doing a spiral shape, like a snail shell, once I did that the jump point seemed best.