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I notice most of the article is written in straight text, rather than visually.

• divan 7y ago
  I got the pun, but that's actually interesting point. Natural text also has both spatial and temporal components: when you read fiction, some paragraphs describe the scene, the character, the relationships, and others – how they evolve, change and interact. For this reason, I sometimes enjoy watching movie before I read the book it's based on – the movie (visualization) so much better and showing how things look like, while text is still superior in following the story, living development of characters and so on. So in this article I used graphics a lot – and even more so in the original slides. I actually had to write WebGL programs to show that visual aspect. That's one of the things that frustrates me a lot – it's so hard to just visualize what you mean, without being professional animator or programming 3D scenes. I'd love it to be as simple as writing a post on social network. Textual literacy is still orders of magnitude more accessible, cheaper and widespread.