Bret Victor - Drawing Dynamic Visualizations
Colin McDonnell3 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2021–2025
talk · intermediate · evergreen · 2021–2025 on HN
Bret Victor's talk on Drawing Dynamic Visualizations. It argues that visualization tools offer either the directness of hand drawing or the dynamics of programmed graphics, and shows a tool that combines both.
Counted among Bret Victor's best talks and recommended to anyone exploring direct-manipulation tools.
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3 comments from Hacker News
My favorite Bret Victor talk ever is „Drawing dynamic visualizations“ [1] that made me try to reverse engineer [2] the demonstrated tool that he sadly never released. [1]: ▶ this video [2]: link
For the people asking who is Bret Victor: When "What are your favourite tech talks of all time?" is asked on HN, he gets more mentions than anyone else, usually. Some of his talks: Inventing on Principle link The Future of Programming link The Humane Representation of Thought link Media for Thinking the Unthinkable link Seeing Spaces link Drawing Dynamic Visualizations ▶ this video link
“Pharo is a … and immediate feedback.” The key that we should provide more often. Bret Victor has been discussing for over a decade. Can’t find them demo that i’m thinking of but here’s an introduction into Bret ▶ this video link His ideas go beyond “immediate feedback” …