My friend wrote this CHI ‘25 system paper (open access). Very cool: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713723

I love this. Just want to throw out an actual debug UI I created to solve a real problem that doesn't quite fit neatly into the "visualize a data structure" frame. https://akkartik.name/post/2023-11-04-devlog Here the dots are in a 2D array, but the array is interpreted spatially and the space between elements is interpreted continuously. I've often wondered what sort of systematization might cover ideas like this. It will be familiar to game programmers, who are constantly annotating 3D spaces with metadata in their debug UIs..

Just saw this talk, this is awesome. My immediate next question (and what I imagine most FoC people would ask) is using it in the opposite direction, for interacting with diagrams -> data structure values