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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... indicate a sense of the sizes of the original objects . Scholarly writings usually report the dimensions of the original ; the scalings of published reproductions , however , vary capriciously in amount of reduction or enlargement . In ...
... indicate a sense of the sizes of the original objects . Scholarly writings usually report the dimensions of the original ; the scalings of published reproductions , however , vary capriciously in amount of reduction or enlargement . In ...
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... indicate finer movements of fingers and coins . In this trick , like many others , small maneuvers of fingers are masked by larger hand movements . To expose the method , these draw- ings depict the hand tipped at varying angles toward ...
... indicate finer movements of fingers and coins . In this trick , like many others , small maneuvers of fingers are masked by larger hand movements . To expose the method , these draw- ings depict the hand tipped at varying angles toward ...
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... indicate every 6th day of rest ( revised schedule ) . Spacewalk ( ВЫХОД выход , exit ) by Grechko on December 20. When Grechko returned , Romanenko decided on the spur of the moment to look around outside . While pushing himself through ...
... indicate every 6th day of rest ( revised schedule ) . Spacewalk ( ВЫХОД выход , exit ) by Grechko on December 20. When Grechko returned , Romanenko decided on the spur of the moment to look around outside . While pushing himself through ...
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