One of the simplest ways to improve the look of graphics on a computer screen is to anti-alias them. Here are some examples of aliased graphics, and a few techniques to improve them.
Design Basics: Anti-Aliasing
Read Full Post
One of the simplest ways to improve the look of graphics on a computer screen is to anti-alias them. Here are some examples of aliased graphics, and a few techniques to improve them.
Photograph of the Milky Way rising (setting?) above the Earth’s limb from Space Shuttle Discovery.
Satellite view of Mount St. Helens on August 23, 2010.
The free Natural Earth data are a great resource for map-making.
3 high-resolution images of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Cynthia Brewer developed the indispensable ColorBrewer, an applet to choose color schemes for maps.
Comic Sans is probably the most widely misused font on the planet.
The Elegant Figures blog will be a place for me (Robert Simmon, the Earth Observatory’s lead visualizer) to write about some of the data visualization and information design we do on the Earth Observatory.
This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress.
