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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... architecture of the table ; finally reinforce it all with a second particular , explaining what another number means.29 These two particulars can be selected to make a substantive point as well as to explain the data arrangement . With ...
... architecture of the table ; finally reinforce it all with a second particular , explaining what another number means.29 These two particulars can be selected to make a substantive point as well as to explain the data arrangement . With ...
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... Architecture of the late Humphry Repton ( London , 1840 ) . See Dorothy Stroud , Humphry Repton ( Lon- don , 1961 ) ; Nikolaus Pevsner , Studies in Art , Architecture and Design ( London , 1968 ) , volume 1 , pp . 138-155 ; Stephen ...
... Architecture of the late Humphry Repton ( London , 1840 ) . See Dorothy Stroud , Humphry Repton ( Lon- don , 1961 ) ; Nikolaus Pevsner , Studies in Art , Architecture and Design ( London , 1968 ) , volume 1 , pp . 138-155 ; Stephen ...
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... architecture of content , the information becomes the interface . Rather than sequentially stacking up little bits ... Architectural Designs of Humphry Repton The Great Age of Tedious British Water- colors : 1750 to 1880 Henri Matisse ...
... architecture of content , the information becomes the interface . Rather than sequentially stacking up little bits ... Architectural Designs of Humphry Repton The Great Age of Tedious British Water- colors : 1750 to 1880 Henri Matisse ...
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