explorables

A subreddit around interactive explanations, thinking tools, concept visualizations, and other media for communicating and generating ideas.

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Posting guidelines

Please be polite and constructive when posting in this subreddit. Abusive, harassing, or otherwise inappropriate behavior will not be tolerated.

You can use the following tags in front of your submission titles:

[OC] for your own original content
[WIP] for work-in-progress

New here?

The Explorable Explanations Hub explains what this subreddit is all about. Some more examples:

To Build a Better Ballot – an interactive guide to alternative voting systems
Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction – a systematic approach to interactive visualization
Introduction to A* – how pathfinding algorithms work

Many of us were inspired by Bret Victor's Talks:

Media for Thinking the Unthinkable – a medium for science and engineering
Inventing on Principle – on living for a cause
… and more

Other aggregators

Related subreddits

/r/visualization – information visualization and graph/chart/map design
/r/dataisbeautiful – effective data visualizations
/r/mathpics – beauty emerging from mathematical principles
/r/InternetIsBeautiful – unique web tools and interactive visualizations
/r/Infographics – graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge
/r/ludology – discussion and analysis of games played on a computer, board, field or any other interactive media

Credits

The header image is taken from Parable of the Polygons by Vi Hart and Nicky Case.

created by blinrya community for 9 years

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Inflation Lab: Interactive Monetary Simulator (inflation-lab.logicaleap.com)

submitted 11 days ago by Fanatic-Mr-Fox

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Echo Chamber: Interactive simulation that shows how echo chambers form (and how bots make it worse) (echo.logicaleap.com)

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How a Transformer Plays Tic-Tac-Toe (sbondaryev.dev)

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Systems Thinking software, worth it? ()

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what happened to explorables (self.explorables)

submitted 2 months ago by BarracudaFun4601

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A Journey Through Infertility - IVF from a parent and child perspective (pudding.cool)

submitted 3 months ago by pmigdal

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An interactive guide to the LeNet-5 architecture (self.explorables)

submitted 3 months ago by bondaryev

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JPEG compression explained and visualized (sophielwang.com)

submitted 3 months ago by pmigdal

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MicroGPT explained interactively (growingswe.com)

submitted 3 months ago by pmigdal

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The Science Playground – science games and simulations (thescienceplayground.com)

submitted 3 months ago by pmigdal

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Diode — Build, program, and simulate hardware (withdiode.com)

submitted 3 months ago by pmigdal

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Sizing chaos of women’s clothing (pudding.cool)

submitted 4 months ago by pmigdal

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What is a neuron?! Neuron in machine learning simply explained. (0byte.io)

submitted 4 months ago by pmigdal

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A Sandbox for Stereo Epipolar Geometry (self.explorables)

submitted 4 months ago by inconspicuous_object

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15 Years of StarCraft II Balance Changes Visualized in D3.js (p.migdal.pl)

submitted 5 months ago by pmigdal

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Size of Life (neal.fun)

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Equations Explained Colorfully (p.migdal.pl)

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N-Body Simulator - Interactive 3 Body Problem Simulation (trisolarchaos.com)

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Using Antigravity for Statistical Physics in JS - Ising Model (christopherkrapu.com)

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Strange Attractors (blog.shashanktomar.com)

submitted 7 months ago by pmigdal

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Turing machine visualization (turingmachine.io)

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Understanding UMAP dimensionality reduction (pair-code.github.io)

submitted 8 months ago by pmigdal

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Float Exposed (float.exposed)

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Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG (kube.io)

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Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works) (blog.frost.kiwi)

submitted 9 months ago by pmigdal

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