When I tried to write my first notebook in Observable, I was intrigued and confused. I knew there was some “magic” going on: things automatically updated when other things changed. The trouble was, which things and which things? I expected some things to automatically update and they didn’t. And I expected other things to stick around like normal, but instead they got wiped away by automatic updates I hadn’t expected. I was fighting the grain of the tool. It took a while to figure out what was going on; onl
I made a janky simulation inspired by Harry Stevens's awesome Washington Post piece.
https://observablehq.com/@a-lexwein/bouncing-balls-not-a-model-for-virus-transmission
I made a generative art!