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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... scale throughout an entire set of re- produced images , similar to a photograph showing a group of objects at a constant scale relative to one another , at least after adjusting for the effects of perspective . It is as if the objects ...
... scale throughout an entire set of re- produced images , similar to a photograph showing a group of objects at a constant scale relative to one another , at least after adjusting for the effects of perspective . It is as if the objects ...
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... scale . Apparently measured in orderly steps , this scale starts with the most serious problem ( " Heating of Secondary O - ring , " which means a primary ring burned through and leaked ) and then continues in several ordered steps to ...
... scale . Apparently measured in orderly steps , this scale starts with the most serious problem ( " Heating of Secondary O - ring , " which means a primary ring burned through and leaked ) and then continues in several ordered steps to ...
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... scale , strongly emphasizing recent events , orders the flow of data . On the vertical scale , all measurements are referenced to normal limits ( within the whiskered band ) ; the most recent reading is shown both numerically and ...
... scale , strongly emphasizing recent events , orders the flow of data . On the vertical scale , all measurements are referenced to normal limits ( within the whiskered band ) ; the most recent reading is shown both numerically and ...
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