Tagged “explorable-explanation”
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Bartosz Ciechanowski
Deeply illustrated, interactive explainers on how things work -- gears, GPS, cameras, the internal combustion engine and…
The Beam Engine
An interactive illustrated guide with 3D figures that builds a steam beam engine piece by piece, explaining pressure, Wa…
2D Rigid Body Collision Resolution
An interactive blog series on how games make objects bump and bounce, with live demos you can drag and throw as you lear…
Bayes Theorem
An interactive picture of Bayes' theorem in which priors and posteriors appear as areas in a square, so you can see the…
Demystifying Fourier Analysis
An interactive walkthrough that builds intuition for the Fourier transform from scratch, probing waves with sines and co…
Detectable
An explorable explanation of signal detection theory, with playable experiments and live charts that show how people dec…
Domain Warping
An interactive explainer on domain warping, one chapter of a visual blog that teaches noise functions and procedural gen…
Exponentially Better Rotations
An illustrated explainer of 3D rotation representations - Euler angles, quaternions, axis-angle and the exponential map…
How LLMs Work
An interactive visual deep dive into how large language models work, built around Andrej Karpathy's lecture and explaine…
How to Tune a Guitar
An interactive audio guide to tuning a guitar by ear, with playable strings and a little music theory woven in along the…
Indo-European Explorer
An explorable explanation of the Indo-European migration, weaving genetics, archaeology, linguistics, and mythology into…
Infinity: An Interactive Exploration
A scrolling walkthrough of mathematical infinity with interactive proofs, from counting hotel rooms to why some infiniti…
Let's Learn About Waveforms
An illustrated interactive primer on waveforms that explains the shapes behind sound, with live visuals you can tweak as…
Mario Meets Pareto
An interactive walk-through showing how the Pareto frontier reveals the best Mario Kart 8 builds, with charts you can pl…
Me, Myself & Microbes
An interactive illustrated story about how the microbes living in our bodies influence our brains and behavior, told in…
Monte Carlo Methods
An interactive tutorial on the law of large numbers and Monte Carlo methods, using roulette simulations to show why the…
Moving Objects in 3D Space
An interactive visual explainer on how to move objects through 3D space, starting from a curiosity about spherical helic…
Procedural City Generation
A demonstration and explanation of a procedural road layout algorithm that grows realistic city street networks, with vi…
Procedural Music in The Sapling
An in-depth interactive explanation of how the procedural music system in the game The Sapling works, with playable demo…
Q-PATHS
An interactive web tool that builds visual intuition for quantum entanglement, walking through the basic quantum terms w…
Read a QR by Hand
An interactive walkthrough that teaches you to decode a QR code manually, step by step, with nothing but your own eyes a…
Redis City
An interactive 3D model of one Redis instance that lets you explore the command path, data structures, allocator, OS mem…
Solving Minesweeper and Making It Better
An interactive essay that builds a Minesweeper solver step by step, with playable boards along the way, and ends by inve…
Spin Lab
An interactive course on table-tennis spin: nine hands-on lessons with simulations of topspin, backspin, ball flight, ta…
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