Comments for Elegant Figures http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures On data visualization and information design on the Earth Observatory. Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:40:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on Earth Day and Night by Susan Anderson http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2013/04/22/earth-day-and-night/comment-page-1/#comment-61729 Susan Anderson Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:40:10 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/?p=687#comment-61729 Thanks!

I love Earth Observatory, and especially its images!

]]> Comment on Earth Day and Night by Robert Simmon http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2013/04/22/earth-day-and-night/comment-page-1/#comment-61728 Robert Simmon Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:35:22 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/?p=687#comment-61728 They weren’t “taken” at all–they’re composite images from multiple datasets. A variant of the Black Marble series.

]]> Comment on Earth Day and Night by Susan Anderson http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2013/04/22/earth-day-and-night/comment-page-1/#comment-61727 Susan Anderson Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:56:47 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/?p=687#comment-61727 What is the date these were taken? Clearly not 22 April 2013. Seems to me the post should have included this reference.

I hope you will add it.

]]> Comment on Earth Day and Night by Raelene http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2013/04/22/earth-day-and-night/comment-page-1/#comment-61723 Raelene Wed, 24 Apr 2013 02:32:11 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/?p=687#comment-61723 /sigh what a most beautiful planet, isn’t she just breathtaking to look at? no wonder she is popular. The Miss universe of the planets

]]> Comment on Crafting the Blue Marble by Leblanc Johann http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2011/10/06/crafting-the-blue-marble/comment-page-1/#comment-61715 Leblanc Johann Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:17:53 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/?p=575#comment-61715 J’Aime beaucoup se que rait la NASA et je vais en profiter plainnement…….!. Merci a la NASA pour tout les érforts qu’ielle fait….!. A bientôt ……..
Monsier Leblanc Johann78

]]> Comment on Is Animation an Effective Tool for Data Visualization? by Karin Lisa Atkinson http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2013/03/14/is-animation-an-effective-tool-for-data-visualization/comment-page-1/#comment-61604 Karin Lisa Atkinson Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:32:33 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/?p=676#comment-61604 As someone who has worked with visual effects and animation since 1970′s, my opinion is a definite YES to using animation as an effective tool for data visualization. Historically – back before computers, when all of our animation was optical film based, only a few people were using animation ~ the medical, military, aerospace and entertainment industry. The costs of developing new generations of animation and the eventual move to design computers, which could accept images then do image manipulation (animation) was primarily funded by the entertainment industry. Part of the evolutionary steps of animation was to design the ability to input and export the raw images into computers. We were encouraged to do this, as we knew that people respond to sound and colour carried in images of light. By our human design, we import and export sensual experience via various extra sensory abilities – which are triggered by sound then colour then light. What better way to communicate to people, so they may absorb the true nature of our universe within multiverses of information based in sound, colour and light. After all common unity, community, communication is a force of nature which calibrates to a degree our human evolutionary and spirit progress through shared imagery in sound, colour and light.

]]> Comment on Is Animation an Effective Tool for Data Visualization? by Grep http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2013/03/14/is-animation-an-effective-tool-for-data-visualization/comment-page-1/#comment-61602 Grep Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:27:26 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/?p=676#comment-61602 I think some of the reason behind hesitating to use animation is the media. It has traditionally been hardcopy. But imagine simply information displays that use animation. I personally think they would be a world of help. In terms of the sciences, I think many have either misused or misunderstood the value of animation.

]]> Comment on Odds & Ends: Gulf Oil Spill by manchester escort http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2010/08/20/odds-ends-gulf-oil-spill/comment-page-1/#comment-61269 manchester escort Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:09:35 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/?p=67#comment-61269 The images are astounding.

]]> Comment on Map of the Ancient Mississippi by Robert Simmon http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2011/05/11/map-of-the-ancient-mississippi/comment-page-1/#comment-61206 Robert Simmon Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:57:13 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/?p=358#comment-61206 The entire set of maps is available here: http://lmvmapping.erdc.usace.army.mil/index.htm

]]> Comment on Map of the Ancient Mississippi by Bruce L. Manzano http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2011/05/11/map-of-the-ancient-mississippi/comment-page-1/#comment-61205 Bruce L. Manzano Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:05:01 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/?p=358#comment-61205 It would be neat to track the locations of prehistoric sites along this meandering maze to see where people put their villages, monuments, and cemeteries.

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