
The Book of Trees
Visualizing Branches of Knowledge
Manuel Lima(Author)
Princeton Architectural Press
Published on 1. May 2014
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-61689-218-0 (ISBN)
Description
Trees are in nature but also in our minds. Their shape have influenced how we communicate via diagrams, link ideas together and illustrate deeper human thoughts in art throughout history. Trees have been a recurrent metaphor for mapping information in numerous scientific domains, such as biology, genetics, sociology and linguistics and information visualisation is a growing area of interest amongst a variety of business practices. This book will expose our long-lasting obsession with trees, as metaphors for organising and representing hierarchical information, and provide a broad visual framework for the various types of executions, many dating back hundreds of years.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
135 colour and 60 black & white images
Dimensions
Height: 261 mm
Width: 197 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
935 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61689-218-0 (9781616892180)
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Persons
Manuel Lima is a Senior UX Design Lead at Microsoft and founder of VisualComplexity.com - A visual exploration on mapping complex networks. He is the author of Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information (Princeton Architectural Press).