Thinking like Einstein : returning to our visual roots with the emerging revolution in computer information visualization /
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| Author / Creator: | West, Thomas G., 1943- |
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| Imprint: | Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2004. |
| Description: | 222 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5532786 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part 1. Visual Thinking
- 1. Forward into the Past: A Revival of Old Visual Talents with Computer Visualization
- 2. Thinking Like Einstein on the Hokule'a: Visual Thinking through Time
- 3. Visual Thinkers and Nobel Prizes
- 4. Word-Bound: The Power of Seeing
- 5. When the World Plague Was Stopped by a Digital Artist
- 6. Smashing Images
- Part 2. Visual Technologies
- 7. Is Visualization No Longer a "New New Thing"?
- 8. Talk Less, Draw More
- 9. Unintended, Unexpected Consequences
- 10. Artist Discoveries and Graphical Histories
- 11. Transforming Spheres-in Three Parts
- Part 3. Visual Brains
- 12. Making All Things Make Themselves
- 13. Enormous Eyes and Tiny Grasping Hands
- 14. Brain Drain: Reconsidering Spatial Ability
- 15. Knowing What You Don't Need to Know
- Part 4. Visual People
- 16. Feynman Diagrams, Spreading Illusions
- 17. Missed Opportunities and Cheap Tools
- 18. James Clerk Maxwell, Working in Wet Clay
- 19. Digital Artist as Hero
- 20. Is a Visualization Language Possible?
- 21. Following the Gifts: Art, Visual Talent, and Troubles with Words
- 22. Nikola Tesla and Thinking in Pictures
- 23. Seeing the Unseen: Concluding Remarks
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- References and Readings
- Index
