Envisioning Information

This book celebrates escapes from flatland rendering several hundred superb displays of complex data. Revealed here are design strategies for enhancing the dimensionality and density of portrayals of information - techniques exemplified in maps, the manuscripts of Galileo, timetables, notation describing dance movements, aerial photographs, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, electocardigrams, drawings of Calder and Klee, computer visualizations, and a textbook of Euclid's geometry.