27 June 2006

Visualising Information Spaces : http://www.nicolas-guillard.com/cybergeography-fr/vis_infospaces.html

(XML) Topic Maps : http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/topicMaps.html Via http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu/~acoleman/tmaps.html

Why Graphics Make Documentation Work Better;
  • Graphics aid job performance
  • Graphics help documents go global
  • Graphics reach nonreaders
  • Graphics seduce reluctant readers
  • Graphics add credibility
  • Graphics aid thinking
  • Graphics promote more efficient reading
  • Graphics can explain visual and spatial concepts

Why Graphics Work

  • Vision is our dominant sense
  • Graphics are compact
  • Graphics escape the limitations of linear text
  • Graphics are readily understood
  • Graphics are remembered
  • Graphics are self-correcting
(from William Horton's Illustrating Computer Documentation, 1991) Via http://mysite.verizon.net/resnx4g7/Design/Visual.html

Mindmapping Outliners : http://www.atpm.com/10.08/atpo.shtml

A Design Manifesto: Rethinking the User Interface : http://jef.raskincenter.org/humane_interface/hollands_review.html (Review).

Zoomified High Resolution Disneyland Aerial Picture : http://zansstuff.com/aerialdlzoom.html
Via http://zansstuff.com/aerialdl.shtml

Match rotating 3D pathogen structures with a 2D model using a hexagon map : http://freshmeat.net/screenshots/48075/51446/ Via : http://freshmeat.net/projects/pathogenwarrior/

Bible Diagrams : http://www.biblediagrams.com/diagrams/index.htm and Timelines.

Review: SymmetryWorks and Tessella : http://www.atpm.com/10.07/symm-tess.shtml to generate grids and layouts for concept maps.

GoogleMap Picture Frame : http://www.e85map.com/pinandzoom.php

Stumbled upon here : http://madiverdun.stumbleupon.com/favorites/ as a 'favorite'.

"Map artists ... claim the power of the map to achieve ends other than the social reproduction of the status quo. Map artists do not reject maps. They reject the authority claimed by normative maps uniquely to portray reality as it is, that is, with dispassion and objectivity.” - Wood, 2006

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." - Wernher Von Braun
"I must Create a System, or be enslaved by another Man's." - Wm. Blake (1757 - 1827 English)
"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next." - Jonas Salk

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