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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... magicians , this technique helps turn one card into another ; for card hustlers , it serves to deliver a particular card to ... magician , who speaks while slowly demonstrating the moves . Again , an illustration reveals no sense of the ...
... magicians , this technique helps turn one card into another ; for card hustlers , it serves to deliver a particular card to ... magician , who speaks while slowly demonstrating the moves . Again , an illustration reveals no sense of the ...
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... magician's illusion is performed smoothly ; under the dissecting microscope of a slow reading , however , the trick falls apart , now diagnosed as the substitution of a thin circular ring or plastic disk for the glass in the second step ...
... magician's illusion is performed smoothly ; under the dissecting microscope of a slow reading , however , the trick falls apart , now diagnosed as the substitution of a thin circular ring or plastic disk for the glass in the second step ...
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... [ magician ] is this : " Never tell your audience beforehand what you are going to do . " If you do so , you at once ... Magicians rarely perform the same trick twice in front of the same audience because they are aware that repetition ...
... [ magician ] is this : " Never tell your audience beforehand what you are going to do . " If you do so , you at once ... Magicians rarely perform the same trick twice in front of the same audience because they are aware that repetition ...
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