I found studying physics in college profound at times. I like how unintuitive the machinations of reality can be, so I made a little explainer about wave functions and the wave nature of matter. It's super accessible and errs on the side of including too little math rather than too much. You can check it out here.
I made use of two great packages for visualizing optics and quantum objects:
Diffractio - I used diffractio to create the intensity distrubutions and diffraction patterns from the piece. The package allows you to simulate the classic double slit experiment (and others), control every aspect of the set up, and observe the results.
QMsolve - I used this to create the header gif, but I played around with it much more to jog my memory. You can do some really cool things with it that I couldn't justify putting in an entry-level explainer.
I used Adobe Illustrator and ai2html to clean up the graphics. Practicing with that has been really helpful. The real work here was presenting information I'm familiar with to an audience that probably has no exposure to it, which is a pretty good exercise for an aspiring reporter.
Did you find this interesting? Helpful? Completely incoherent? I'd like to know! I might like to make something that builds off this in the future.