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Re:Is It Better to Rent or Buy? by mbostock on Thursday May 22, 2014 @06:51PM (#7787058)
Definitely. We actually designed something like that, but due to time constraints weren’t able to ship it (yet). One complication is that a reasonable range for a given variable can depend on other variables. But hopefully we’ll figure it out.

And thank you!

Re:Is It Better to Rent or Buy? by nitrogen on Friday May 23, 2014 @01:59AM (#7788174)
I'm sure you've seen TangleJS by Bret Victor. Its performance wasn't quite good enough for the way I wanted to use it, but it looks like that level of meta-interactivity is what you're going for.

Here's my favorite demo of the concept, discovered here on HN: http://worrydream.com/#!2/LadderOfAbstraction

Re:Is It Better to Rent or Buy? by GFischer on Friday May 23, 2014 @10:17AM (#7789430)
Wow, that's an impressive site, thanks for sharing.

I think I had seen the one on the future of interaction design, but I hadn't explored the site :) .