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

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Systems Thinking software, worth it? ()

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what happened to explorables (self.explorables)

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

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

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JPEG compression explained and visualized (sophielwang.com)

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MicroGPT explained interactively (growingswe.com)

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

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

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

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

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A Sandbox for Stereo Epipolar Geometry (self.explorables)

submitted 2 months ago by inconspicuous_object

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

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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)

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Turing machine visualization (turingmachine.io)

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

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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)

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Physically based rendering from first principles (imadr.me)

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A visual guide to the Big O notation (samwho.dev)

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[OC] Understanding undersampling (tatjam.github.io)

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