Week 15: the future of information representation
Tufte Chapter 7: Visual confections: Juxtapositions from the ocean of
the streams of story
Multi-tasking, multiple stories ...
Event: subject and verb
confections (p. 121): "an assembly of many visual events, selected from
various Streams of Story"
- illustrate an argument
- present/enforce visual comparisons
- combine real and imagined
- tell another story
The chapter is a variety of confections, discussed ...
p. 125 : confection as an aid to memory
p. 127: "confections are not direct representation sof pre-existing
senes, nor are they the result of placing data into conventional
formats"
In other words, there has to be some level of supra-real creativity.
(see pp. 128-9)
p. 132-133: confections can lead to an additional layer of narrative if
you don't recognize the representations
p. 138: "analogy, metaphor, visual and verbal parallelism"
p. 140 - 141: good and bad confections (according to Tufte)
p. 143: "Traps and pitfalls to be avoided in order to obtain success"
p. 145: "Speech alone is sometimes an altogther inefficient,
low-resolution method for communicating information."
p 150: Pioneer plaque
Hamburg to Vienna?