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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... letters of the Trajan Inscrip- tion varied from occurrence to occurrence , indicating that uniform stencils were not used to reproduce the letters but rather that they were painted with a brush as a guide for the stonecutters . To ...
... letters of the Trajan Inscrip- tion varied from occurrence to occurrence , indicating that uniform stencils were not used to reproduce the letters but rather that they were painted with a brush as a guide for the stonecutters . To ...
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... letter - labels run in tight parallel . Rather than serving as a code linking text and figure , the letters represent themselves as vowels . Thus this singular account- you heard it here first - of the vowel pipe : Toward the end of the ...
... letter - labels run in tight parallel . Rather than serving as a code linking text and figure , the letters represent themselves as vowels . Thus this singular account- you heard it here first - of the vowel pipe : Toward the end of the ...
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... letter A , published from 1460 to 1529. These compass - and - rule constructions , developed in the Italian Renaissance , attempt to rationalize and make uniform the early inscriptional Roman letters ( the Trajan Inscription was hand ...
... letter A , published from 1460 to 1529. These compass - and - rule constructions , developed in the Italian Renaissance , attempt to rationalize and make uniform the early inscriptional Roman letters ( the Trajan Inscription was hand ...
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