An Explorable Explanation by Max Goldstein
An interactive essay about transforming many numbers at once according to simple rules.
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git clone git@github.com:mgold/Invitation-to-Another-Dimension.git
cd Invitation-to-Another-Dimension
npm install
Now fire up your favorite web server. As you develop, you'll want to have gulp running to take care of browserifying
the JS and compiling the SASS. You may also want to change out d3.min.js for d3.v3.js in js/main.js.
Although an attempt has been made to keep the code reasonably nice, it's a side project. Each stage follows the same
module pattern: expose a function that sets up a small amount of initial state, various constants and functions, and
returns a function that calls render(true) (indicating the initial render). Any time state is mutated thereafter, the
code responsible should call render(). As such, the diagrams aren't constantly reanimating. (Except the last one,
which is built on Mathbox.)