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Beautiful presentation. I love when visualizations serve the goal and not the other way around. Tufte would be proud.

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The switch from 2D to 3D was so seemless and beautiful I actually gasped.

Yep same, I let out an audible "nooooo....".

Maybe it was 3D the entire time. :)

Same. What a beautiful plot twist.

Thanks a lot! That was my goal. It's a trick I learned: if you zoom in from a distance, everything appears flat. The effect is achieved by zooming out while simultaneously moving the camera closer to the subject!

Could you not just use a parallel projection (which should be the default for this kind of 3d scatter plot)?

Yes, I could have been using THREE.OrthographicCamera(), however, it makes the effect way less cinematic, and most importantly, it makes the depth harder to see (particularly for a scatter plot).

In cinematography that is called a dolly zoom [1] and it is best known for being used in Vertigo [2] and Jaws [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_zoom

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7YJkBcRWB8

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eO_5q5dR9M

I love how that transition is relative to the scroll position rather than working off a breakpoint. Did you consider doing the same thing with the first bar chart? I think it would be nice to slowly reveal the standings :)

Honestly, I was so impressed.

Bugs out for me in Firefox at around 2/3. Works fine in Safari.

My kid (6) crashes all the time, and she is naturally attracted to picking Peach. I'd say because of that, a character with high acceleration is going to be better. Though she also just likes to push the gas.

Though we're playing the one from GBA on Analogue Pocket. Which is probably a lot less advanced as the one in question here (a game for Wii U from 2012), it does resemble Wacky Wheels quite a lot.

Gotta teach the kid about using the brake and the "poomp" slide (called boost after N64) on the corner. I race Mario but when she's on, mine (8), can get me on the 150 tracks (switch). I'm still crushing on the 200 tho (for now) ;)

Bugged out for me around 2/3 on Firefox/iOS (which is really Safari) with Lockdown mode.

FYI Mario Kart for the Switch has a handful of accessibility options that help less experienced/younger/elderly players stay in the game and on the course without taking away from the fun.

> would

Tufte is still alive!

Of course, but I'm not inside his head :)

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