Bret Victor - Drawing Dynamic Visualizations on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2021–2025.
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Bret Victor's talk on Drawing Dynamic Visualizations. It argues that visualization tools offer either the directness of hand drawing or the dynamics of programmed graphics, and shows a tool that combines both.
Counted among Bret Victor's best talks and recommended to anyone exploring direct-manipulation tools.
“My favorite Bret Victor talk ever is”
3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
My favorite Bret Victor talk ever is „Drawing dynamic visualizations“ [1] that made me try to reverse engineer [2] the demonstrated tool that he sadly never released. [1]: ▶ this video [2]: [link]
in “The Future of Programming (2013) [video]” · View on HN
For the people asking who is Bret Victor: When "What are your favourite tech talks of all time?" is asked on HN, he gets more mentions than anyone else, usually. Some of his talks: Inventing on Principle [link] The Future of Programming [link] The Humane Representation of Thought [link] Media for Thinking the Unthinkable [link] Seeing Spaces [link] Drawing Dynamic Visualizations ▶ this video [link]
in “Ask HN: Has anyone fully attempted Bret Victor's vision?” · View on HN
“Pharo is a … and immediate feedback.” The key that we should provide more often. Bret Victor has been discussing for over a decade. Can’t find them demo that i’m thinking of but here’s an introduction into Bret ▶ this video [link] His ideas go beyond “immediate feedback” …
in “Pharo 9” · View on HN