I hope Edward Tufte gets to see this

[major_clanger]

xkcd is rarely less than good but every few weeks Randall Munroe absolutely excels himself. He's done it again with his movie narrative charts (click for large version):



Lord of the Rings is superb, although as per the title it uses the movie trilogy narrative. Twelve Angry Men is sublime. And Primer massively understates matters...

I think he's been reading Tufte on Minard.

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[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

And now I want to see the one of those that I haven't seen (Primer), just because...

[tregenza.livejournal.com]

Yep, another excellent graphic from Randall but I hadn't realised you were a Tufte fan. I have Minard's Napoleon's March graph on my wall.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is that I already had a segment of the LotR diagram on my office whiteboard, from when I was trying to get one of my third years to do a project on narrative visualisation.

(she didn't - I'll try again next year)

[rmc28]

I want the poster version of this. Want want want.

Also I think I need to watch Primer just to see what the fun is about.

[covertmusic.livejournal.com]

My mind immediately went to VDQI as well.

Tufte's an office hero at Timetric Towers.

[inamac.livejournal.com]

And now I want to see the Fight Club one....