Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and NarrativeVisual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative is about pictures of verbs, the representation of mechanism and motion, process and dynamics, causes and effects, explanation and narrative. Practical applications and examples include statistical graphics, charts for making important decisions in engineering and medicine, technical manuals, diagrams, design of computer interfaces and websites and on-line manuals, animations and scientific visualizations, techniques for talks, and design strategies for enhancing the rate of information transfer in print, presentations, and computer screens. The use of visual evidence in deciding to launch the space shuttle Challenger is discussed in careful detail. Video snapshots show redesigns of a supercomputer animation of a thunderstorm. The book is designed and printed to the highest standards, with luscious color throughout and four built-in flaps for showing motion and before/after effects. |
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... appear for only 14 seconds ( in a grand total of 315 seconds of animation ) before vanishing . In the redesign above , the omnipresent tripod might eventually attract attention to an unusual scale : the vertical dimension up into the ...
... appear for only 14 seconds ( in a grand total of 315 seconds of animation ) before vanishing . In the redesign above , the omnipresent tripod might eventually attract attention to an unusual scale : the vertical dimension up into the ...
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... appears thoroughly overdetermined . It is hard to reconcile the sense of inevitable disaster embodied in the cumulated ... appear in PCSSCA , volume IV , pp . 664-673 ; also in Vaughan , Challenger Launch Decision , pp . 293–299 ...
... appears thoroughly overdetermined . It is hard to reconcile the sense of inevitable disaster embodied in the cumulated ... appear in PCSSCA , volume IV , pp . 664-673 ; also in Vaughan , Challenger Launch Decision , pp . 293–299 ...
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... appear so conspicuously here because they were symbols of Scheiner's patron , the Orsini ( Ursinus - bear ) family.2 Thus a confectionary image portrays a confectionary title . On the page at right , another confection serves as a ...
... appear so conspicuously here because they were symbols of Scheiner's patron , the Orsini ( Ursinus - bear ) family.2 Thus a confectionary image portrays a confectionary title . On the page at right , another confection serves as a ...
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