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Very excited that this has been made open source. This was one of my favorite projects to follow back in 2015 or so when I was at MS. It's a very neat idea. Th
by breck 7y ago
Very excited that this has been made open source. This was one of my favorite projects to follow back in 2015 or so when I was at MS.
It's a very neat idea. The way I think of the core idea is that you give instructions to all of your rows, and they arrange themselves in a way that high level patterns become visible. That way you can always see the forest and the trees. This is opposed to the current practice of generating new marks from functions on the data to then see high level patterns. In the current practice you can see the forest or the trees.
A very interesting thing happened to me though when I played with this pattern for a while (and this is anecdotal, so take with a grain of salt): it seemed to damage my eyes. I would click around changing the views and the dots would jump in all sorts of directions to the new layouts, and after a while I got headaches and visual aura. Now, it was probably just a coincidence because I was also a bit overworked at the time, but because it was so new, and in some ways so unnatural (to see so many patterns of movement so quickly that you don't generally see in nature), I decided not to take chances and moved away from animated visualizations. Anyone else ever had anything similar happen?
- fierarul 7y ago> A very interesting thing happened to me though when I played with this pattern for a while (and this is anecdotal, so take with a grain of salt): it seemed to damage my eyes. I would click around changing the views and the dots would jump in all sorts of directions to the new layouts, and after a while I got headaches and visual aura. I suppose the animations are there just for show. Just like iPhone's parallax effect which I find odd whenever I notice it. PS: I assume you ruled out photosensitive epilepsy or something serious.