A visual programming language for animation, geospatial and the web
summary
A browser-based visual programming environment for geospatial animation actually exists: a flow‑based DAG of strongly typed nodes that renders deterministic frames and interactive apps and exports video. It is GPU accelerated, handles 100,000 taxi trips in real time for brushing and filtering, supports keyframed timelines, lazy accessors, and polymorphic wiring, and uses zod for types plus DuctDB and a code editor with Copilot. The system runs, composes, and renders.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:42Visual programming matters
- 3:31Talk structure
- 7:03Visual programming framework
- 12:46Animation and data workflows
- 15:35Flow-based programming
- 18:03Success stories
- 21:13When visual programming excels
- 24:43Programming paradigms hot takes
- 26:49Explore visual tools
