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Jason Davies
Personal blog · jasondavies.com · on HN as jasondaviesdatawebdesign
Jason Davies's personal blog at jasondavies.com covers data, web and design. Since 2009, 108 different Hacker News readers have linked it 152 times, most often “Animated Bézier Curves (2010)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Sometimes recommended · 14 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jason Davies' interactive maps and animated demos, especially Bezier curves and Poisson disc sampling, as clear ways to learn these ideas.
- Recommended for · 14 comments
- Called excellent, fun to browse, and a nice visual explanation; the animated Bezier page called easy to understand.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jason Davies is a freelance software developer based in London, UK.
Most-linked posts?
- Animated Bézier Curves (2010)7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2016-04-01
- World Airports Voronoi (2014)7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2014-04-09
- Poisson-Disc Sampling6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-04-20
- Map Projection Transitions6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2013-03-10
- World Capitals Voronoi5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-09-03
- Prime number patterns5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2012-07-05
- Planarity – Can you find the planar embedding?5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-02-25
- Animated Bézier Curves5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2011-12-02
- Interactive Demo of Bloom Filters5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-10-28
- Parallel Sets in D3.js4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-04-23
What Hacker News says?
Jason Davies has done excellent work on addressing this problem in the browser https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/raster/
Comment linking /maps/raster/
on “Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it”Submitted World Airports Voronoi (2014) as a story · 424 points
HN discussionThis is really cool looking, and I have no idea what you'd use it for. And this is just the neatest thing to play with: https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/hammer-retroazimuthal/
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on “Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it”Submitted Prime number patterns as a story · 359 points
HN discussionAny implementation of the Poisson Disc Sampling algorithm. Really nice for evenly spacing out player starting locations on a world map :) https://www.jasondavies.com/poisson-disc/
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on “Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm?”Submitted World Airports Voronoi as a story · 338 points
HN discussionAnimated / interactive Bezier curves: http://www.jasondavies.com/animated-bezier/
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on “Visually stunning math concepts which are easy to explain”Submitted Rotate the world as a story · 316 points
HN discussionJason Davies also: https://www.jasondavies.com/
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on “Maze Tree”Submitted Map Projection Transitions as a story · 192 points
HN discussionIt never fully clicked for me until I saw it animated https://www.jasondavies.com/animated-bezier/
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on “A Primer on Bézier Curves”Submitted Interactive Demo of Bloom Filters as a story · 188 points
HN discussionAbout the video: https://www.jasondavies.com/collatz-graph/ One of the first results if you Google "collatz online". That's also probably why it's confusing - because it wasn't made for the article.
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on “Terence Tao Proves Result on the Collatz Conjecture”Submitted Animated Bézier Curves as a story · 171 points
HN discussionMany of you will be well aware that you can't have a distance-preserving "map", that is a projection from the globe to a segment to of the plane where the length of an arbitrary path is preserved. Hence you can't measure real-world distances using string and a paper map. That said you can preserve distance in special cases, for example any two chosen points. For example you can go to https://www.jasondavies.com/maps…
Comment linking /maps/two-point-equidistant/
on “95% of container ships are now going around the Southern Tip of Africa”Submitted Show HN: Word Tree in D3.js as a story · 158 points
HN discussionFor those that haven't played it, Planarity is a graph untangling game. https://www.jasondavies.com/planarity/
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on “A Canadian payroll dependency chart”Submitted Animated Bézier Curves as a story · 142 points
HN discussionTry this one too: http://www.jasondavies.com/bml/
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on “A Big List of D3 Examples”Submitted Prime Number Patterns as a story · 122 points
HN discussionOh my... http://www.jasondavies.com/animated-quasicrystals/
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on “A Big List of D3 Examples”Submitted Random Points on a Sphere as a story · 122 points
HN discussionKind of reminds me of https://www.jasondavies.com/planarity/
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on “Teen mathematicians tie knots through a mind-blowing fractal”Submitted Animated Bézier Curves (2010) as a story · 106 points
HN discussionSee also: http://www.jasondavies.com/factorisation-diagrams/
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on “Animated Factorisation Diagrams”Submitted All numbers lead to one as a story · 95 points
HN discussionBreakdown for http://www.jasondavies.com/ over the past month: Safari: 4% Internet Explorer: 5% (!) Mozilla-compatible agent: 6% Chrome: 20% Firefox: 65%
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on “Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share”Submitted Interactive Bezier curve demo using D3.js as a story · 54 points
HN discussionI hope I got you to look at a map. Maps are great. As a prize for admitting how bad you are at geography, here's a political map in Waterman's butterfly projection. - https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/waterman-butterfly/full.png
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on “France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall”Submitted Interactive Word Clouds in D3.js as a story · 44 points
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