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Lights and Shadows

ciechanow.ski

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Re: Lights and Shadows

#11

Looks really nice, the widgets are great and run well on my phone. Is it a real time ray tracer doing the rendering? Still amazes me these days what’s possible in browsers or on a phone.

> Is it a real time ray tracer doing the rendering?

With these shapes, this can be solved analytically with the equations shown. If this was raytracing, you'd need a lot of rays for such a clean image.

Re: Lights and Shadows

#13

I love the format of interactive educational documents, especially when you can tell that the 'teacher' is also the UI designer and developer in one and there's a very high level of quality and polish. There's nothing quite like it for learning a complex subject. Check out the archives [1] for more amazing interactive documents by this author. Can anyone share any more examples of this kind of thing? The OP's archive…

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Re: Lights and Shadows

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I love the format of interactive educational documents, especially when you can tell that the 'teacher' is also the UI designer and developer in one and there's a very high level of quality and polish. There's nothing quite like it for learning a complex subject. Check out the archives [1] for more amazing interactive documents by this author. Can anyone share any more examples of this kind of thing? The OP's archive…

The Washington Post sometimes does this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-si...

And then Bloomberg's "What is Code": https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-co...

Slate has some as well, such as their interactive transatlantic slave trade visualization (pause the animation and click on a dot to learn more about the vessel)

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_s...

Although these aren't interactive, I like this person's blog: http://tabletopwhale.com

I try to do the same at STEM Lounge, although it takes a lot of time and effort. I haven't gone full interactive yet (although that's the goal). Just static articles so far. https://stemlounge.com The "muddy america" article took a while.

Re: Lights and Shadows

#15
My only complaint is that I hoped for a second half of the article with equally detailed visualizations, explaining the physically-based rendering algorithms used to create the visualizations in the first half. The last diagram showing multiple matte reflections is just a teaser.

Re: Lights and Shadows

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post #9

I love the format of interactive educational documents, especially when you can tell that the 'teacher' is also the UI designer and developer in one and there's a very high level of quality and polish. There's nothing quite like it for learning a complex subject. Check out the archives [1] for more amazing interactive documents by this author. Can anyone share any more examples of this kind of thing? The OP's archive…

https://distill.pub is such a platform for articles about machine learning https://explorabl.es is a more general hub. > especially when you can tell that the 'teacher' is also the UI designer and developer in one and there's a very high level of quality and polish. There's nothing quite like it for learning a complex subject. Agreed. Unfortunately I think this is the inherent limitation to the explosion of such mate…

I’m a high school English teacher. If I can be helpful in any way, get in touch.

Re: Lights and Shadows

#19
I sent this to several of my friends who are professional photographers and all they could say was ‘shhhh don’t give away our secrets.’

It’s all about the light. Really beautiful demonstrations.

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