Bret Victor - Drawing Dynamic Visualizations
Colin McDonnell3 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
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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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“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 [VIDEO] [LINK] His ideas go beyond “immediate feedback” …
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 [VIDEO] [LINK]
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]: [VIDEO] [2]: [LINK]