Check out the archives [1] for more amazing interactive documents by this author.
Can anyone share any more examples of this kind of thing? The OP's archives [1] are amazing.
https://explorabl.es is a more general hub.
> especially when you can tell that the 'teacher' is also the UI designer and developer in one and there's a very high level of quality and polish. There's nothing quite like it for learning a complex subject.
Agreed. Unfortunately I think this is the inherent limitation to the explosion of such material (Bret's seminal essay [0] was almost a decade ago) - it takes an insane amount of skill, in mostly orthogonal disciplines, as well as a lot of time and effort to make it. Some tools attempt to make them a little straightforward to program, but due to the nature of it you can't really have a one size fits all solution that isn't just a general programming language + rendering engine.
And there is no "explorables industry" to fund the production of those (unlike say, textbooks), so it ends up being mostly side projects for otherwise gainfully employed developers.
It would be amazing to have eg. attempts at building an entire K-12 curriculum around explorable explanations. It's also the kind of work that probably loses in clarity and value when done by a team/committee rather than a single person dedicated to their vision.
This is what I figured out as well. Often the people that have the knowledge are not the ones who know how to put this on to a webpage in a another form then text and images. Like mygo comments below most explanations are done in interactive news articles but this has to be done with a team of programmers and designers who are working together. I am currently building a tool trying to narrow this gap. The tool is at a very early stage, but I'm sharing early previews at [1]. The goal is to create a tool for interactive visualizations that people without much programming experience can use which outputs something that is more dynamic then just text. Such a tool could never do what could be done with a full blown programming language but I'm hoping to start at an easy to use tool and expand it outwards to more complex visualizations.
[1] https://dribbble.com/shots/12517016-Essay-with-dynamic-backg...
And then Bloomberg's "What is Code": https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-co...
Slate has some as well, such as their interactive transatlantic slave trade visualization (pause the animation and click on a dot to learn more about the vessel)
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_s...
Although these aren't interactive, I like this person's blog: http://tabletopwhale.com
I try to do the same at STEM Lounge, although it takes a lot of time and effort. I haven't gone full interactive yet (although that's the goal). Just static articles so far. https://stemlounge.com The "muddy america" article took a while.
I think it should be clarified that with a real monochromatic cyan light source the tiles in this example [1] would be different hues of cyan, and not different hues of green, blue, and cyan (which is due to the cyan light source being modeled as a combination of green and blue light in the example).
https://www.archdaily.com/380911/light-matters-seeing-the-li...
As someone interested in how light works for its impact on photography and cinematography, I’d like to find expanded similar resources.
The main one that comes to my mind is "Light: Science and Magic" (978-0415719407) which I own. Another possible learning tool (which I have not yet had a chance to use) is Cine Tracer: https://store.steampowered.com/app/904960/Cine_Tracer/
Any other books, sites, or software that might help one learn how to better understand or shape light?
With these shapes, this can be solved analytically with the equations shown. If this was raytracing, you'd need a lot of rays for such a clean image.
I'm more amazed at the author, it doesn't even kick in the fans on my old MBP 2013! And even then, this is the least praise-worthy feature of the explorable explanation! I find the whole thing quite mindblowing. Congrats to the author.
It’s all about the light. Really beautiful demonstrations.
I wonder if it could be done without it.
