retiredurologist comments on Bayes' Theorem Illustrated (My Way) - Less Wrong
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You might like Oscar Bonilla's much simpler explanation.
That's more or less the default visualization; unfortunately it hasn't proved particularly helpful to me, or at least not as much as the visualization presented here -- hence the need for this post.
The method presented in the post has a discrete, sequential, "flip-the-switch" feel to it which I find very suited to my style of thinking. If I had known how, I would have presented it as an animation.