MetaFilter posts tagged with diagrams

Mechanical Wankelry

cthuljew — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 13:42:32 -0800

Animated Engines has been mentioned a couple times before, but I wanted to highlight the site entire, along with its sister site, 507 Mechanical Movements. Both sites have animated diagrams of a huge variety of engines and (relatively) simple machines, the latter based on an 1868 book by Henry T. Brown of the same name. While all of the engines are animated, the animated machines start on page 3, and go on from there. And every diagram leads to a page that explains the machine's function — step-by-step in the case of the engines.

Leonardo Interactivo

Marauding Ennui — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:16:45 -0800

The Royal Spanish Library has put online today an interactive version of Leonardo da Vinci's Madrid Codices I & II. There are transcriptions of the text (in Spanish and Italian, click "T" on the bottom menu), animations of many of the mechanical contraptions (click play button "ver animacion") and the "Indice" in the bottom menu organizes the folios by theme.

For Lsson Plans, Study Help, or Quick Reference

netbros — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:47:25 -0800

Are you the type of person who, when flipping through a book or scanning a website, immediately searches for the diagrams or charts because you'd rather absorb the information visually than have to read a bunch of text? If so, then you are probably a visual learner and you may find Useful Charts helpful. The goal is to present useful information in the form of study charts so that students, teachers or simply those interested in increasing their general knowledge can absorb the information quickly and visually.

The Computer Tree

OmieWise — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:37:20 -0800

The Computer Tree from Electronic Computers Within the Ordnance Corps. More computer chronology, including this list of fictional computers at Wikipedia.

Starship Schematics Database

Joe Beese — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:17:36 -0800

Starship Schematics Database: dedicated to the sole purpose of archiving every single starship design ever conceived in the Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5, and Space Battleship Yamato (A.K.A. Star Blazers in the USA) Universes, both official and unofficial, interesting and mediocre.

History of Western Philosophy Influence Charts

LobsterMitten — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:07:57 -0800

History of Western Philosophy, illustrated in huge scroll-down timelines. Kevin Scharp at OSU made these, based on work by Randall Collins, and they are great. Includes the influence of the Muslim world. He also has separate diagrams on a few specific issues, eg paradoxes, theories of truth, etc. This link goes to his fast-loading index page, where you can click to load the (big) charts. About the big overall histories of western philosophy, he says: "the first runs from 600 B.C.E. to 600 C.E., and the second covers 600 C.E. to about 1935 C.E. They are based on Sociology of Philosophies by Randall Collins. Each one is 4 feet wide, and together, they are about 44 feet tall when the font is 12 point." via Leiter

Military maps of The War on Christmas

Joe Beese — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:53:04 -0800

In celebration of Festivus: military maps of the War on Christmas.

Fictional Blueprints

GatorDavid — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:50:19 -0800

Artist Mark Bennett's real blueprints for fake places are fascinating. The home of socialite Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson is, not surprisingly, much more intricate than that of Mr. and Mrs. Flintstone. (via CurbedLA)

In Which I Ruin Rashomon For Everyone, Forever

Effigy2000 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:24:37 -0800

With the initial belief that there is no story, or at least no fluid story behind the events of the events of the classic Kurosawa film Rashomon, MeFi's Own Shepherd set about diagramming the movie in an attempt to figure it all out. Join him as he, in his own words, Ruins Rashomon For Everyone, Forever. [via mefi projects]

Infopornographics

puckish — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:58:56 -0800

Everything is prettier as a flow chart. See, for instance: The blogosphere, the relative permanency of visible and invisible worlds, your bike, U.S. interstates, the Maginot Line, moon cycles, Cubism, Enron, the financial crisis, the Apollo landing site, Lisa's cold, fertility, and Ninja Turtles. There appears to be no rhyme or reason, other than a stringent belief in order and luck with google hits. From the thread author: I find these by compulsively searching google images. A search might be one of these words (Weather, Perfect, Beautiful, Temperature, Flow, Process, Affordability) plus one of these words (Graphic, Graph, Infographic, Diagram, Chart, Plot, Map), then I just flip through the pages looking for any that are beautiful in either content or aesthetics. Enjoy!

John Curran posts Great Diagrams in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Social Theory

puckish — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:39:57 -0800

Who said structuralism was dead? John Curran posts Great Diagrams in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Social Theory - an illustrated assortment of sociology's greatest hits, arranged neatly for your viewing pleasure.

Oh, so that's what that thing on my sink is called!

desjardins — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:58:59 -0800

Visual Dictionary Online - diagrams of everyday objects (and ones not so ordinary) for the visual thinkers among us. (via)

"I’m going to draw a chart for her with lines and arrows". Diagramming web apps.

nthdegx — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:37:22 -0800

"I’m going to draw a chart for her with lines and arrows". Diagramming web apps: ajaxSketch, bubbl.us, flowchart.com, mindmeister, gliffy and mindomo.

Wikipedia:Featured_pictures_visible

nthdegx — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:57:58 -0800

Wikipedia: Featured pictures (plus candidates) Fellow arachnophobes beware!

4 block world

signal — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:19:19 -0800

4-Block World: simple diagrams about life, &c. The full list. via information aesthetics

Underworld Engineer

vacapinta — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:24:39 -0800

The Charts of Clarence Larkin A mechanical engineer by training, Clarence Larkin later found his true calling as a pastor and an author of influential books on religion. He is best remembered, however, for his detailed charts on topics such as: The Underworld, The Failure of Man, The Threefold Nature of Man, and an incredibly detailed The Book of Revelations from his book on Revelations.

visual poetry out of dirty secrets

amberglow — Sun, 26 Oct 2003 07:42:11 -0800

Mark Lombardi created art out of the stuff of conspiracy theories. Following the money trails, he was just completely fascinated by connections, how one thing led to another, how the C.I.A. would back a coup in Australia, someone would be murdered in Turkey and things would happen in Indonesia." Some of his work here and here, and more about his work here. His drawings satisfy because they address a human need for coherent order drawn from chaos. Such a need, however, is bound to be frustrated. Instead of blueprinting perfection, the works' aura of mastery arises in the context of a sprawling dystopia.

Paul Bourke

tss — Mon, 28 Oct 2002 23:22:10 -0800

Paul Bourke of Auckland has an excellent set of elegant and informative webpages for the kind of math you look at. Even if math perplexes you, his pages are still quite pretty and often make for interesting reading regardless. Every place I've worked between college and now, Paul has given me pages that nicely explained how to do somthing I needed to do and even personal help on occasion. Here's to you, Paul!

silusGROK — Tue, 22 Oct 2002 07:39:41 -0800

Have you grown weary of the tiny, grayscale maps of Iraq and the Middle East accompanying most newspaper stories on the region? TomPaine.com went in search of better geographic tools, and found them at the University of Texas' Online Library, with links to dozens of maps—political, topographical, historical—of a region many Americans have never scrutinized geographically. More inside... [via TomPaine.com]

solistrato — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:51:15 -0800

An oldie but a goodie: The Visual Table of the Elements.