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Dev tools · May 8, 2012

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Tributary, live visual coding you can share

All aboard! Prepare yourself for a voyage through parameter space as we embark on project Tributary! Tributary is a web interface for live and responsive

Tributary, live visual coding you can share launched on May 8, 2012 with 23 votes, #58 of 435 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

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Tributary is a web-based interface for live visual coding that lets users write and share code with immediate visual feedback. It includes a code editor and popular JavaScript libraries for visual programming, making it useful for learning, experimentation, and rapid prototyping of data visualizations. The tool is designed for developers and programmers who want to explore visual coding concepts interactively.

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All aboard! Prepare yourself for a voyage through parameter space as we embark on project Tributary! Tributary is a web interface for live and responsive visual coding. It includes a code editor and provides some popular javascript libraries for visual programming. The core concept of tributary comes from the inspirational Bret Victor video and the implementation is derived from Gabriel Florit’s water project . Tributary as a project is aimed at being a learning tool and a playground for visual programming. It has already been useful to me as a rapid prototyping tool for data visualization, and I also enjoy using it to come up with unexpected visual effects and optical illusions. I…from enja.org

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