I wonder if Kangaroo was used for this?

Grasshopper
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Pretty sure thatā€™s all done with javascript, but you could do something similar with Kangaroo.

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Each of those items in the heap below reveals a headline when your mouse scrolls over it. Does Kangaroo have this capacity?

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Very clever code for sure - my guess is Java too. I didnā€™t realize each name was a link.
Just think - someone got paid to do this.

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The Times has featured some pretty spectacular interactive graphics lately; I posted about a weighted voronoi a few months ago. I guess theyā€™re not reinventing the wheel when they do these things and much of this functionality must exist as packages somewhere. Iā€™m just not very versed in whatā€™s availableā€¦

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Much of the NYT interactive stuff is done with d3js by Mike Bostock-
lots of nice ideas for algorithmic data visualization there

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Javascript, not Java. They are not the same thing. I love Javascript, itā€™s wonderful!

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OK - but it still has all those horrid things like { and [ and ++ and ;

With Iversonā€™s APL you can write the code for the game of life like this:

lifeā†{ā†‘1 āµāˆØ.āˆ§3 4=+/,ĀÆ1 0 1āˆ˜.āŠ–ĀÆ1 0 1āˆ˜.āŒ½āŠ‚āµ}

But I wouldnā€™t do it that way.