Friday, January 25, 2008

Supplementary Reading: Edward Tufte, Envisioning Information, 12-35

Supplementary Reading: Edward Tufte, Envisioning Information, 12-35

"Even though we navigate daily through a perceptual world of three spatial dimensions and reason occasionally about higher dimensional arenas with mathematical ease, the world portrayed on our information displays is caught up in the two-dimensionality of the endless flatland of paper and video screen. . . . Escaping this flatland is the essential task of envisioning information - for all the interesting worlds (physical, biological, imaginary, human) that we seek to understand are inevitably and happily multivariate in nature. Not flatlands." (Tufte, 12)

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