Thinking like Einstein : returning to our visual roots with the emerging revolution in computer information visualization / Thomas G. West.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

West, Thomas G., 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thought and thinking.

Visualization.

Information visualization--Psychological aspects.

Information visualization.

Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

222 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2004.

Contents:

Part 1 Visual Thinking

1 Forward into the Past: A Revival of Old Visual Talents with Computer Visualization 25

2 Thinking Like Einstein on the Hokule'a: Visual Thinking through Time 39

3 Visual Thinkers and Nobel Prizes 45

4 Word-Bound: The Power of Seeing 53

5 When the World Plague Was Stopped by a Digital Artist 59

6 Smashing Images 65

Part 2 Visual Technologies

7 Is Visualization No Longer a "New New Thing"? 77

8 Talk Less, Draw More 83

9 Unintended, Unexpected Consequences 89

10 Artist Discoveries and Graphical Histories 95

11 Transforming Spheres-in Three Parts 101

Part 3 Visual Brains

12 Making All Things Make Themselves 109

13 Enormous Eyes and Tiny Grasping Hands 113

14 Brain Drain: Reconsidering Spatial Ability 119

15 Knowing What You Don't Need to Know 125

Part 4 Visual People

16 Feynman Diagrams, Spreading Illusions 133

17 Missed Opportunities and Cheap Tools 139

18 James Clerk Maxwell, Working in Wet Clay 147

19 Digital Artist as Hero 155

20 Is a Visualization Language Possible? 161

21 Following the Gifts: Art, Visual Talent, and Troubles with Words 167

22 Nikola Tesla and Thinking in Pictures 175

23 Seeing the Unseen: Concluding Remarks 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index.

ISBN:

1591022517

OCLC:

55745124