Lokesh Dhakar has illustrated a series of diagrams showing the trajectories of variously-pitched baseballs.
The illustrations are simple and clean, and yet still communicate a large amount of information - movement in three dimensions, ball orientation at pitch point, and speed. (Note the color gradients from yellow to red to indicate different speeds.)
Check it out.
Archive for November, 2007
Baseball pitch infographics
Published November 15th, 2007 in Sports and Visual/Technical Communication. 0Â CommentsClimbing Kilimanjaro
Published November 2nd, 2007 in Backpacking/Hiking and Visual/Technical Communication. 0Â CommentsAs an avid hiker and a technical communicator, I was totally geeked by this awesome interactive piece by the New York Times on climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Combining a well-written storyline with a great technical presentation, the piece covers Tom Bissell’s experience as he summited the lofty African peak. Using a Google Earth-based 3-D timeline, each stop […]