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jonahxtoday at 4:34 AM1 replyview on HN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex

Common for visualizing mixtures of three things!


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vltoday at 6:19 AM

While you are technically correct, since any triangle is a simplex, this is not relevant to this visualization.

For this visualization: get positive quantities in 3D space, normalize to 1, now you have dot on a triangle on 1-sphere in a positive octant. Project triangle into 2D space a this is your visualization.

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