Rule 30: one black cell(wolframcollatzmahler.com)
16 points by amichail | 5 comments
An interactive explainer of Wolfram's Rule 30 cellular automaton, its three open prize problems about the centre column, and observed order at the pattern's edges.
#interactive-visualization on Hacker News
19 stories tagged interactive-visualization, newest first.
The U.S. Power Grid(nomagicpill.site)
80 points by surprisetalk | 25 comments
An interactive 3D model of a U.S.-style power grid explaining how electricity is generated, transmitted, priced and kept at 60 Hz, with scenarios like Winter Storm Uri.
Show HN: Uberblok – an interactive museum of ZFS internals(uberblok.storagebits.workers.dev)
107 points by storagebits | 28 comments
Uberblok is an interactive web museum explaining OpenZFS internals like the uberblock, copy-on-write, txgs, RAID-Z and the ARC with animations tied to source code.
The Byzantine Generals Problem: A visual explanation(gravitypersists.github.io)
3 points by gravity13 | 0 comments
An interactive visual explanation of the Byzantine Generals Problem, a classic distributed systems consensus problem involving faulty or malicious participants.
Coltrane's Tone Circle(jtomschroeder.com)
73 points by jtomschroeder | 21 comments
A blog post that rebuilds John Coltrane's tone circle diagram as an interactive widget and explores its relationship to the circle of fifths and Giant Steps harmony.
Show HN: An atlas of system designs with interactive architecture diagrams(atlas-sysdes.vercel.app)
29 points by mertkahyaoglu | 18 comments
A Show HN web app presenting an atlas of system designs with interactive architecture diagrams.
Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?(rivendell.dmitrybrant.com)
544 points by dmitrybrant | 236 comments
Interactive 3D browser simulation of a park where the speed of light is 5 km/h, showing length contraction, time dilation, Terrell rotation and Doppler effects.
Old and new apps, via modern coding agents(terrytao.wordpress.com)
420 points by subset | 124 comments
Terence Tao blog post on using modern AI coding agents to migrate his old Java 1.0 math applets into new web apps and build new ones.
Size of Life(neal.fun)
2521 points by eatonphil | 277 comments
An interactive Neal.fun page comparing the sizes of living things, from tiny organisms to the largest creatures.
Space Elevator(neal.fun)
1665 points by kaonwarb | 379 comments
Neal.fun interactive page where users scroll upward in an elevator through the atmosphere into space, seeing objects and phenomena at each altitude.
A visual introduction to big O notation(samwho.dev)
605 points by samwho | 170 comments
An interactive visual essay by Sam Rose explaining big O notation and how function running time grows with input size.
Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization(visualrambling.space)
825 points by damarberlari | 132 comments
An interactive slide-style visual explainer on moving objects in 3D space using parametric equations, building up to a spherical helix path.
A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks (2021)(distill.pub)
348 points by misonic | 31 comments
A Distill article giving an interactive, illustrated introduction to graph neural networks and the design choices behind their components.
Airfoil(ciechanow.ski)
2422 points by todsacerdoti | 280 comments
Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive article explaining how airplanes fly by examining the forces generated by airflow around wings and airfoils.
Relativistic Spaceship(dmytry.github.io)
1008 points by thunderbong | 450 comments
An interactive browser simulation showing how a starfield looks from a spaceship accelerating toward the speed of light, with relativistic Doppler and time dilation effects.
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music(music.ishkur.com)
451 points by diggan | 135 comments
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music, an interactive timeline map of electronic music genres and subgenres from the 1900s to the 2010s.
The Deep Sea (2019)(neal.fun)
333 points by throw0101a | 106 comments
An interactive scrolling visualization by Neal Agarwal that descends through the ocean's depths, showing the creatures and objects found at each depth.
Memory Allocation(samwho.dev)
1195 points by thecoppinger | 168 comments
An interactive blog post by Sam Rose visually explaining the basics of memory allocation, how simple allocators work, and techniques like free lists and fragmentation handling.
Load Balancing(samwho.dev)
1011 points by kiyanwang | 202 comments
A blog post by Sam Rose explaining how a load balancer distributes HTTP requests across servers, building up from basic approaches to modern load balancing algorithms.