Well, there's no way we don't watch that scene from The West Wing. I'll let the inimitable CJCS Admiral Percy Fitzwallace briefly explain the concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=841qG6VM0UI&t=79s
Prof. Steve Brunton's YT channel is a treasure trove of material for you folks, with course-like playlists for controls, data-driven engineering, and dynamical systems: https://www.youtube.com/@Eigensteve/playlists
He should be a featured creator, much like 3b1b is for math!
This is a wonderful article! Thank you to the author for taking the time to write and animate all this.
I want future generations to have access this so I have to ask - how can I back up this page with all of the interactive 3D animations still operational? Simply saving the HTML file doesn't seem to work.