Working With Diagrams

Working With Diagrams
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 163
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ISBN-10 : 9781800735590
ISBN-13 : 1800735596
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Working With Diagrams by : Lukas Engelmann

Arising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic and symbolic reading of diagrams, this book looks at what diagrams are capable of in scholarly work related to the social sciences. Rather than attempting to define what diagrams are, and what their dietic capacity might be, contributions to this volume draw together the work diagrams do in the development of theories. Across a range of disciplines, the chapters introduce the ephemeral dimensions of scientist’s interactions and collaboration with diagrams, consider how diagrams configure cooperation across disciplines, and explore how diagrams have been made to work in ways that point beyond simplification, clarification and formalization.

The Diagrams Book

The Diagrams Book
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Publisher : Lid Publishing
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1911687522
ISBN-13 : 9781911687528
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis The Diagrams Book by : Kevin Duncan

People find it difficult to express ideas and solve problems purely with words. They find it much easier to use diagrams. Distilled into this single, handy-sized volume are 60 of the most useful diagrams, which are used by the smartest managers and entrepreneurs globally, to aid their problem-solving and thinking. Triangles and pyramids, grids and axes, timelines, flows and concepts - the 60 diagrams are each visually presented, and then explained in an accessible manner, including tips and advice on how you can apply them to your own situations.

Architectural Diagrams

Architectural Diagrams
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Publisher : Dom Publishers
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 3869224177
ISBN-13 : 9783869224176
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Architectural Diagrams by : Mi Young Pyo

The trendsetting architect Rem Koolhaas has carried it out to perfection, whereas the next generation of international stars refined it even more, giving us the unconventional presentation of designs and ideas in the form of diagrams. This method of presentation is easy to understand when dealing with the client and can be communicated internationally, beyond language and cultural barriers - a product of our globalised world. However, diagrams are now much more than explanations and form their own discipline in creative professions connected to design and construction. What looks simple is in fact a complex matter. This title in the series Construction and Design Manual is in its second edition and assembles 384 pages of diagrams by avant-garde architects and designers who specialise in public space, landscape architecture and urban planning.

Drawing Theories Apart

Drawing Theories Apart
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : 9780226422657
ISBN-13 : 0226422658
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Drawing Theories Apart by : David Kaiser

Winner of the 2007 Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society. Feynman diagrams have revolutionized nearly every aspect of theoretical physics since the middle of the twentieth century. Introduced by the American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) soon after World War II as a means of simplifying lengthy calculations in quantum electrodynamics, they soon gained adherents in many branches of the discipline. Yet as new physicists adopted the tiny line drawings, they also adapted the diagrams and introduced their own interpretations. Drawing Theories Apart traces how generations of young theorists learned to frame their research in terms of the diagrams—and how both the diagrams and their users were molded in the process. Drawing on rich archival materials, interviews, and more than five hundred scientific articles from the period, Drawing Theories Apart uses the Feynman diagrams as a means to explore the development of American postwar physics. By focusing on the ways young physicists learned new calculational skills, David Kaiser frames his story around the crafting and stabilizing of the basic tools in the physicist's kit—thus offering the first book to follow the diagrams once they left Feynman's hands and entered the physics vernacular.

Digital Habitats

Digital Habitats
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Publisher : CPsquare
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 9780982503607
ISBN-13 : 0982503601
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Digital Habitats by : Etienne Wenger

Technology has changed what it means for communities to "be together." Digital tools are now part of most communities' habitats. This book develops a new literacy and language to describe the practice of stewarding technology for communities. Whether you want to ground your technology stewardship in theory and deepen your practice, whether you are a community leader or sponsor who wants to understand how communities and technology intersect, or whether you just want practical advice, this is the book for you.

Cogwheels of the Mind

Cogwheels of the Mind
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 134
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ISBN-10 : 0801874343
ISBN-13 : 9780801874345
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Cogwheels of the Mind by : A. W. F. Edwards

For anyone interested in mathematics or its history, Cogwheels of the Mind is invaluable and compelling reading.

Designer's Guide to Creating Charts & Diagrams

Designer's Guide to Creating Charts & Diagrams
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015047364420
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Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Designer's Guide to Creating Charts & Diagrams by : Nigel Holmes

Demonstrates how to take complex, abstract statistical data and organize it into an understandable chart or diagram. This book shows what type of chart is suitable for individual jobs, what format is appropriate and what demands of time, art and skill are involved in each project. Using well-illustrated sample assignments, the author teaches how to apply four steps to any task beginning with identifying the reader or user of the chart, selecting a production method, reviewing the numbers, and finding the right symbol around which to design it. This book also discusses the misuse of charts and how to avoid distorting facts. It concludes with how to find sources of inspiration in nature and the world around us. This book is designed to be of interest to graphic designers, art directors, editors and anyone who uses charts to convey information.

The Art and Science of Drawing

The Art and Science of Drawing
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Publisher : Rocky Nook, Inc.
Total Pages : 479
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ISBN-10 : 9781681987774
ISBN-13 : 1681987775
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis The Art and Science of Drawing by : Brent Eviston

Drawing is not a talent, it's a skill anyone can learn. This is the philosophy of drawing instructor Brent Eviston based on his more than twenty years of teaching. He has tested numerous types of drawing instruction from centuries old classical techniques to contemporary practices and designed an approach that combines tried and true techniques with innovative methods of his own. Now, he shares his secrets with this book that provides the most accessible, streamlined, and effective methods for learning to draw.

Taking the reader through the entire process, beginning with the most basic skills to more advanced such as volumetric drawing, shading, and figure sketching, this book contains numerous projects and guidance on what and how to practice. It also features instructional images and diagrams as well as finished drawings. With this book and a dedication to practice, anyone can learn to draw!

Thinking with Diagrams

Thinking with Diagrams
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 349
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ISBN-10 : 9781501503689
ISBN-13 : 1501503685
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Thinking with Diagrams by : Sybille Krämer

Diagrammatic reasoning is crucial for human cognition. It is hard to think of any forms of science or knowledge without the "intermediary world" of diagrams and diagrammatic representation in thought experiments and/or processes, manifested in forms as divers as notes, tables, schemata, graphs, drawings and maps. Despite their phenomenological and structural-functional differences, these forms of representation share a number of important attributes and epistemic functions. Combining aspects of linguistic and pictorial symbolism, diagrams go beyond the traditional distinction between language and image. They do not only represent, yet intervene in what is represented. Their spatiality, materiality and operativity establish a dynamic tool to exteriorize thinking, thus contributing to the idea of the extended mind. They foster imagination and problem solving, facilitate orientation in knowledge spaces and the discovery of unsuspected relationships. How can the diagrammatic nature of cognitive and knowledge practices be theorized historically as well as systematically? This is what this volume explores by investigating the semiotic dimension of diagrams as to knowledge, information and reasoning, e.g., the 'thing-ness' of diagrams in the history of art, the range of diagrammatic reasoning in logic, mathematics, philosophy and the sciences in general, including the knowledge function of maps.

The Culture of Diagram

The Culture of Diagram
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 591
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ISBN-10 : 9780804773256
ISBN-13 : 0804773254
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis The Culture of Diagram by : John Bender

The Culture of Diagram is about visual thinking. Exploring a terrain where words meet pictures and formulas meet figures, the book foregrounds diagrams as tools for blurring those boundaries to focus on the production of knowledge as process. It outlines a history of convergence among diverse streams of data in real-time: from eighteenth-century print media and the diagrammatic procedures in the pages of Diderot's Encyclopedia to the paintings of Jacques-Louis David and mathematical devices that reveal the unseen worlds of quantum physics. Central to the story is the process of correlation, which invites observers to participate by eliciting leaps of imagination to fill gaps in data, equations, or sensations. This book traces practices that ran against the grain of both Locke's clear and distinct ideas and Newton's causality—practices greatly expanded by the calculus, probabilities, and protocols of data sampling. Today's digital technologies are rooted in the ability of high-speed computers to correct errors when returning binary data to the human sensorium. High-tech diagrams echo the visual structures of the Encyclopedia, arraying packets of dissimilar data across digital spaces instead of white paper. The culture of diagram broke with the certainties of eighteenth-century science to expand the range of human experience. Speaking across disciplines and discourses, Bender and Marrinan situate our modernity in a new and revealing light.