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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... NASA NASA 开 NASA NASA As the shuttle exploded and broke up at approximately 73 seconds after launch , the two booster rockets crisscrossed and continued flying wildly . The right booster , identifiable by its failure plume , is now to ...
... NASA NASA 开 NASA NASA As the shuttle exploded and broke up at approximately 73 seconds after launch , the two booster rockets crisscrossed and continued flying wildly . The right booster , identifiable by its failure plume , is now to ...
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... NASA , the government agency responsible for the flight . A high - level NASA official responded that he was " appalled " by the recommendation not to launch and indicated that the rocket - maker , Morton Thiokol , should reconsider ...
... NASA , the government agency responsible for the flight . A high - level NASA official responded that he was " appalled " by the recommendation not to launch and indicated that the rocket - maker , Morton Thiokol , should reconsider ...
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... NASA and discussed in two long telephone conferences between Thiokol and NASA on the night before the launch . The charts were unconvincing ; the arguments against the launch failed ; the Challenger blew up . These charts have ...
... NASA and discussed in two long telephone conferences between Thiokol and NASA on the night before the launch . The charts were unconvincing ; the arguments against the launch failed ; the Challenger blew up . These charts have ...
Contents
Images and Quantities | 13 |
Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions | 27 |
Pictorial Instructions and Disinformation Design | 55 |
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