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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... audience and performer . From a superbly illustrated book , The Royal Road to Card Magic , this drawing at right ... audience and magician can stand . Since the left hand must hide an increasing accumulation of potentially clinking coins ...
... audience and performer . From a superbly illustrated book , The Royal Road to Card Magic , this drawing at right ... audience and magician can stand . Since the left hand must hide an increasing accumulation of potentially clinking coins ...
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... audience beforehand what you are going to do . " If you do so , you at once give their vigilance the direction which it is most necessary to avoid , and increase ten- fold the chances of detection .... It follows , as a practical ...
... audience beforehand what you are going to do . " If you do so , you at once give their vigilance the direction which it is most necessary to avoid , and increase ten- fold the chances of detection .... It follows , as a practical ...
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... audience Graceful OBSCURED REVEALED When handling a small prop , show as much of it as possible and display it against a contrasting background . CHANGE HANDS WHEN PASSING PROP ACROSS YOUR BODY up on the wall from computer screens or ...
... audience Graceful OBSCURED REVEALED When handling a small prop , show as much of it as possible and display it against a contrasting background . CHANGE HANDS WHEN PASSING PROP ACROSS YOUR BODY up on the wall from computer screens or ...
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