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Aug 26, 2010
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David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization

The terrible screenshot of the slide above is based on the work of Danish physicist Tor Nørretranders:


…he converted the bandwidth of the senses into computer terms.

So here we go. This is your senses, pouring into your senses every second. Your sense of sight is the fastest. It has the same bandwidth as a computer network. Then you have touch, which is about the speed of a USB key. And then you have hearing and smell, which has the throughput of a hard disk. And then you have poor, old taste, which is like barely the throughput of a pocket calculator. And that little square in the corner, 0.7 percent, that’s the amount we’re actually aware of. So a lot of your vision — the bulk of it is visual, and it’s pouring in. It’s unconscious. And the eye is exquisitely sensitive to patterns in variations in color, shape and pattern. It loves them, and it calls them beautiful. It’s the language of the eye. And if you combine that language of the eye with the language of the mind, which is about words and numbers and concepts, you start speaking two languages simultaneously, each enhancing the other. So, you have the eye, and then you drop in the concepts. And that whole thing — it’s two languages both working at the same time.

David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization

The terrible screenshot of the slide above is based on the work of Danish physicist Tor Nørretranders:

…he converted the bandwidth of the senses into computer terms.

So here we go. This is your senses, pouring into your senses every second. Your sense of sight is the fastest. It has the same bandwidth as a computer network. Then you have touch, which is about the speed of a USB key. And then you have hearing and smell, which has the throughput of a hard disk. And then you have poor, old taste, which is like barely the throughput of a pocket calculator. And that little square in the corner, 0.7 percent, that’s the amount we’re actually aware of. So a lot of your vision — the bulk of it is visual, and it’s pouring in. It’s unconscious. And the eye is exquisitely sensitive to patterns in variations in color, shape and pattern. It loves them, and it calls them beautiful. It’s the language of the eye. And if you combine that language of the eye with the language of the mind, which is about words and numbers and concepts, you start speaking two languages simultaneously, each enhancing the other. So, you have the eye, and then you drop in the concepts. And that whole thing — it’s two languages both working at the same time.

Jun 07, 2010
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“EyeBall” by Art Spiegelman, from Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! (originally ran in The New Yorker)

“EyeBall” by Art Spiegelman, from Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! (originally ran in The New Yorker)

Jan 12, 2010
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adamnorwood:


The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is hosting an online collection of U.S. government-produced comic books, with full PDF downloads. Tucked away between the weirder, more off-beat stuff you’ll find some unique work from the likes of Walt Kelly, Hank Ketchum, Dr. Seuss, Charles Schulz, and more. Like this special run of Peanuts where Charlie Brown has Sally tested for amblyopia ex anopsia.
(Via Cartoon Brew)


Related: Art Spiegelan’s amblyopia

adamnorwood:

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is hosting an online collection of U.S. government-produced comic books, with full PDF downloads. Tucked away between the weirder, more off-beat stuff you’ll find some unique work from the likes of Walt Kelly, Hank Ketchum, Dr. Seuss, Charles Schulz, and more. Like this special run of Peanuts where Charlie Brown has Sally tested for amblyopia ex anopsia.

(Via Cartoon Brew)

Related: Art Spiegelan’s amblyopia

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Sep 11, 2009
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Jul 15, 2009
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The amazing hollow mask illusion.

(via mlarson)

Feb 06, 2009
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Jan 12, 2009
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Dec 31, 2008
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