Sometimes it might make sense to have a cell which runs a generator continuously and does some expensive computation, or draws something, or … It seems like once such a cell is started, it just keeps going indefinitely, burning CPU, drawing over itself, or whatever. It might be neat if such a cell…

Button for pausing a cell?

mbostock February 13, 2018, 6:52am 2

There’s a related previous thread on this topic, but here’s a minimal example of pausing a generator:

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