Regarding the article itself: Brett Victor is amazing and so is Strogatz. They are both my heroes actually. But I do think there is a difference between scient

Regarding the article itself: Brett Victor is amazing and so is Strogatz. They are both my heroes actually. But I do think there is a difference between scientific professionals communicating amongst each other and scientific communication to the public. And if mathematicians understood Strogatz his paper at the time when it was published, and there were enough mathematicians to disseminate the knowledge, then should you require that you create algorithms as animations? Part of the reason why mathematicians and computer scientists (as researchers) conceive of new algorithms in the first place is because a lot of them are very strong in visualizing algorithms and 'being their own computer'. Though, if a scientist wants to appeal to a broader group of scientists, then I'd recommend her or him to use every educational tool possible. For example, they could create an interactive blogpost a la parable of the polygons[1] and link that in their paper. On an unrelated note, it is such a pity ncase isn't mentioned at all in this article! Also related is explorabl.es, not everything is science communication in an interactive way but a lot of it is[2]. [1] http://ncase.me/polygons/ http://ncase.me/polygons/ [2] http://explorabl.es/ http://explorabl.es/