Dragit – Direct manipulation of data graphics

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Can you explain why you might choose to use this instead of a more standard method such as a Voronoi tessalation [0]?

(1) It lends itself to the web because it's FAR more interactive

(2) There is far too much to grok all at once with that Voronoi example... way too much clutter. I understand how to read it, but I definetly think this one is a very good interactive illustration.

You can visualise an additional dimension if you factor out the time dimension.

An unfortunate limitation of dragit seems to be that all state is global and therefore you can't have more than one such chart on a single page.

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