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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... parallel structure.1 In Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Edward Gibbon describes the spread of Christianity in prose filled with intricate parallels . Repetitions , elaborations , and contrasts advance the argument , as Gibbon ...
... parallel structure.1 In Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Edward Gibbon describes the spread of Christianity in prose filled with intricate parallels . Repetitions , elaborations , and contrasts advance the argument , as Gibbon ...
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... parallel elements . Parallel images can also be distributed temporally , with one like image following another , parallel in time . For time - bound sequences , comparisons must be made by contrasting a remembered image with a currently ...
... parallel elements . Parallel images can also be distributed temporally , with one like image following another , parallel in time . For time - bound sequences , comparisons must be made by contrasting a remembered image with a currently ...
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... parallel : ( 1 ) photograph , ( 2 ) hand - drawn heads , ( 3 ) hand- written numbers , ( 4 ) list of numbers sequencing the names , ( 5 ) list of names . The disembodied heads were traced with a thick pencil onto paper laid over the ...
... parallel : ( 1 ) photograph , ( 2 ) hand - drawn heads , ( 3 ) hand- written numbers , ( 4 ) list of numbers sequencing the names , ( 5 ) list of names . The disembodied heads were traced with a thick pencil onto paper laid over the ...
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