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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... original image ( left page ) is informationally flat . Every element - clock , grid , rectangular domain , cloud , shadow , the brooding School - of - Caravaggio background- is intense and contrasty . In the original , the dominant ...
... original image ( left page ) is informationally flat . Every element - clock , grid , rectangular domain , cloud , shadow , the brooding School - of - Caravaggio background- is intense and contrasty . In the original , the dominant ...
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... original is awkward ( a square , 40 cm or 16 inches on the side ) , and if reduced in size , the cholera symbols become murky and the type too small . Some facsimile editions of On the Mode of Communication of Cholera have given up ...
... original is awkward ( a square , 40 cm or 16 inches on the side ) , and if reduced in size , the cholera symbols become murky and the type too small . Some facsimile editions of On the Mode of Communication of Cholera have given up ...
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... original panel at near right . In the original , three A's are filled and seven are not , thereby creating two distinct - and meaningless - visual clusters ( which vanish in the redrawing ) . Accidental communalities in design can ...
... original panel at near right . In the original , three A's are filled and seven are not , thereby creating two distinct - and meaningless - visual clusters ( which vanish in the redrawing ) . Accidental communalities in design can ...
Contents
Contents | 13 |
Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions | 27 |
Pictorial Instructions and Disinformation Design | 55 |
Copyright | |
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