Describing nature through visual data / Anna Ursyn, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ursyn, Anna, 1955- author.

Contributor:

Ursyn, Anna, 1955- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information visualization.

Physical Description:

24 PDFs (367 pages)

Place of Publication:

Hershey, Pennsylvania : IGI Global, [2020]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"This book focuses on the concept that the use of graphical display allows better understanding of things and conditions around us, and is becoming an important factor in shaping current lifestyle, technology, and reasoning"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Section 1. Visual communication through science and mathematics. Chapter 1. Advances in describing and managing our environment ; Chapter 2. Random processes and visual perception: stochastic art ; Chapter 3. Visualisation of mathematical thinking

Section 2. Reflections on depicting nature and our perception of nature. Chapter 4. Connecting art, culture, science, and technology ; Chapter 5. Depicting the nature of nature: a contemporary approach to developing aesthetically-driven visual data derived from primary sources ; Chapter 6. Vachanamrut visualization

Section 3. Visual describing with alphabets, characters, and musical notes. Chapter 7. Alphabets and characters ; Chapter 8. Cultural considerations of Chinese calligraphy using characters as visual language ; Chapter 9. Arabic language as Arab characters related to Arabic language alphabet ; Chapter 10. Jazz and jazz theory

Section 4. On processing sensory data. Chapter 11. Music and the mind: how to have a brilliant child ; Chapter 12. Simultaneous perception of parallel streams of visual data.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781799857549

OCLC:

1180966434