This beta version, 3/19/04 has the following completed essays
- Diagrams bring things to a stop
- Sections and Strata -- Slicing the world
- Earth and Sky - The spatial organization of diagrams
The following titles indicate some of the essays in the works, but not yet available.
- Text within diagrams
- Text discussing diagrams
- Marking points and marking regions
- Language and Space
- Pointing at things
- Motion and change
- Cores -- One-dimensional strata
- Expanding for detail
- Keys
- Subjective/Illusory contours
- Time in space
- Nodes and links
- The arrow
- Reasoning with diagrams
- Parsing
- Sketching
- The rise of science and technology
- Creating diagrams
- From pixels to objects
- Diagrams in the mind
- Comprehension
- Mechanisms - What happens?
- Ambiguity
- Summarization
- Layout - Fitting things in
- External cognition
- Motion of the eyes
- A diagram is worth a lot of words
- Freeze frames - Diagrams in sequence
- Mixing pictures and diagrams
- Indexing
- Querying
- Maps - The world drawn small
- New discoveries need novel diagrams
- Music
- Football is dance. Dance is football.
- Delineating and naming parts
- Biology papers are 50% figures
- Flatland
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