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I totally applaud 1blue3brown's videos but for some reason, his approach leaves me more confused than ever. Long winded unnecessary visualizations, especially w

I totally applaud 1blue3brown's videos but for some reason, his approach leaves me more confused than ever. Long winded unnecessary visualizations, especially when animated, annoys me for a reason that I cannot explain. Don't get me wrong, visualizations are powerful but I think I prefer static visualizations. Animations overload the visual system with "visual bloat", if you will. Also, this video did not help me visualize higher dimensions. I prefer a simpler approach - just project down to 3 dimensions (or 4 if you add time at the risk of animating).

sillysaurus3 9y ago
How would you project a 10D sphere into 3 dimensions? Worse, the projection tricks you into believing you've gleaned some insight. The animation was critical for understanding the relationship between the values as they change.
FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
> I prefer static visualizations. Animations overload the visual system with "visual bloat", if you will. Then perhaps learning from a book or slides would be better for you. Animations are not visual bloat, they've helped me understand topics that had eluded me for years. Also, I can now visualize how a projection of a hypercube/tesseract rotates because of animations. Visualizing that process with static images would probably take me until the heat death of the universe to understand.