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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... direct labels ( for example , the numerically labeled grids of statistical graphics , or , at left , dimensional tripods in architectural drawings ) ; encodings ( color scales ) ; and self - representing scales ( objects of known size ...
... direct labels ( for example , the numerically labeled grids of statistical graphics , or , at left , dimensional tripods in architectural drawings ) ; encodings ( color scales ) ; and self - representing scales ( objects of known size ...
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... direct labels , words are integrated into the image : " This ... shews the heights of the Trees as they appeared in Winter , forming three distinct distances ; it also shews the relative height of a Man with a Rod of Ten feet long at ...
... direct labels , words are integrated into the image : " This ... shews the heights of the Trees as they appeared in Winter , forming three distinct distances ; it also shews the relative height of a Man with a Rod of Ten feet long at ...
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... direct labels unifies the information . Codes and keys are sometimes necessary for highly complex data ( geological field maps , for example ) , Edward M. Catich , Letters Redrawn from the Trajan Inscription in Rome ( Davenport , Iowa ...
... direct labels unifies the information . Codes and keys are sometimes necessary for highly complex data ( geological field maps , for example ) , Edward M. Catich , Letters Redrawn from the Trajan Inscription in Rome ( Davenport , Iowa ...
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