Tributary

Tributary is an experimental environment for rapidly prototyping visualization code. The environment provides several useful libraries, as well as a simple interface for live code editing. We call these shareable code examples inlets.

Try a basic example Or start with a clean slate
Collaboration

Share what you make and allow others to play with and modify your creations. Each one gets it's own URL you can send to anyone. Sign in to or create a GitHub account and save your inlets as gists.

Learn Tributary

@enjalot has released two video tutorial mixtapes explaining the basics of D3 through Tributary; dot enter & dot append.

Popular Inlets

Examples

Who is involved?

Tributary is @enjalot's digital laboratory. Much of the design is @mrejfox's vision. Contributors include bollig,ejfox and roundrobin. Power users that shape the projects direction include @syntagmatic, @bausofthenauf, @ptvan, @poezn and @zeffii

Where did it come from?

Tributary is possible because of a lot of other people's hard work. We started with Gabriel Florit's implementation of concepts introduced in Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle talk. Mike Bostock makes much of Tributary possible with his excellent d3.js library. The use of gists to drive the code comes from his bl.ocks.org project.

What we dream it will do

We hope to make programming feel more like playing, so that anyone can explore visual spaces with code. Graphical web APIs are getting more powerful and more numerous, and the tools to manipulate them are as well.

By creating an environment that gives you what you want to start with, we hope that learning these new tools and capabilities will go faster. We also enjoy sharing our knowledge and techniques, so we have created a system that makes it easy and effortless to save ideas and exchange them . We hope that people will continue to "fork" good ideas and take them in their own directions.

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