Created by Aatish Bhatia in collaboration with Henry Reich / Minute Physics.
Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):
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A writeup of the mathematical results behind this essay can be found here.
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The text of the essay is published under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 license. The code is open source and published under the MIT License. The emojis are licensed by Twitter and were modified to include a custom mask design.
This interactive uses the following libraries:
- p5.js (for canvas animations)
- plotly.js (for graphing)
- vue.js (for interactivity)
- vue-observe-visibility (to enable/disable visualizations on scroll)
- lambertw (to calculate the Lambert W function)
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