Visualisations: oh, I get it now!

November 15, 2014 8:01 AM

Explained Visually (EV) is an experiment in making hard ideas intuitive [source: hackernews] There are plenty more mathematical visualisations around, too...
posted by katrielalex (9 comments total)

Great looking site. Excited to dig into these a bit, and see how they came up with them.
posted by So You're Saying These Are Pants? at 8:44 AM on November 15, 2014

...and then there's Math with Bad Drawings...
posted by fairmettle at 8:54 AM on November 15, 2014 [3 favorites]

Let's see 'em take on the idea of cohomology of higher dimensional manifolds.
posted by sammyo at 9:23 AM on November 15, 2014 [1 favorite]

I'm not sure what it's supposed to prove, but I'm planning on watching this .gif for hours.
posted by benito.strauss at 9:39 AM on November 15, 2014 [1 favorite]

I'm not sure what it's supposed to prove, but I'm planning on watching this .gif for hours.

Why be a passive consumer when you can make your own spirally things?
posted by effbot at 10:10 AM on November 15, 2014 [2 favorites]

LucasVB's blog and gallery are also a home for great visualizations.
posted by Wulfhere at 11:10 AM on November 15, 2014

Oh man, I looked at their page on conditional probability and knew in 2 seconds what they were doing, because I spent time earlier this year building up a very similar picture in my head (except with a Venn diagram). I hope this helps others!
posted by A dead Quaker at 11:18 AM on November 15, 2014 [1 favorite]

I came here to drop betterexplained.com.
posted by kandinski at 1:43 PM on November 15, 2014 [1 favorite]

Their virus-spreading model of "exponential growth" grows quadratically.
posted by Wolfdog at 3:12 PM on November 15, 2014 [1 favorite]