1/28/2004   slide 10
Information Graphics
•Rene Descartes early 1600s): x- and y-axes, Cartesian coordinates, repeated axes= Cartesian grid
•William Playfair(1759-1823): invented line chart, bar chart, and pie chart
•Edward Muybridge—scientific photography (horse pictures 1877-78)
•Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 1983 (2nd edition 2001)
A key thing to notice—these inventions relatively recent. Of ever more importance as quantity of information and power of computer graphics both continue to increase.


Blackwell info arch course/outline
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/afb21/InfoArch/index.html