Hello Future of Coding! I'm looking for something which I would describe in the following way. There was a few years ago a article on hackernews where someone showed a kind of dynamic state transition visualization. One could setup multiple nodes and avalue flow from one node to the next but there would be also a flow back to the original node. So my question would be does anyone know what I refer to? What was the name of the diagram. I tried to search for dynamic state transition diagram but it is very scary how bad search engines are these days. So the Name of the diagram , the hackernews article or related reousces would be most welcome. Thank you 🙂

Can you describe what the system looked like, aesthetically? Also, how was it demoed? Images? Gifs? A video?

Given your keywords I'm going to go with state machines and xstate js

Tried GPT-4 and got these back • https://d2-lang.com/ • https://mermaid.js.org/ • https://graphviz.org/ • https://plantuml.com/ --- • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39491889 • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32652291

Thanks a lot for the answers so far! @Ivan Reese Yes, I should have included a visual description in the first place 😅 here it is:

Was it Hest? @curious_reader https://twitter.com/spiralganglion/status/1145028588715950080

If I understand the gif correct then it can also flow backward, the thing I remembered had two "flows" between nodes one going to the nexte node and one coming from the next node. But otherwise this does (even more) what I was looking for thanks!

Perhaps animation trees (eg in Godot)?

The side I played with really used circles. I’m more general terms. How would you search for that on google/bing or chat gpt?

They’ve since spun it off into some kind of flowchart software suite, but was it the original XState visualizer?

Was it loopy?

Yes it was thank you 🙏 @John Choi