Re: Napoleon
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- Subject: [mg26913] Re: Napoleon
- From: Martin Kraus <Martin.Kraus at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 23:29:53 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Institut fuer Informatik, Universitaet Stuttgart
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Mike wrote: > > Hi, > > At some time over the last couple of years I remember coming across a > notebook with a graphic which showed Napoleons march toward moscow (?). From > memory the objective of the notebook may have been to demonstrate the use of > graphics primitives. I can't remember where I saw this (mathsource?, > resource library? etc). > > Can anyone help me out? > > cheers > > Mike Hi, it was mentioned in the MathUser issue #6, Spring 1994: http://www.mathsource.com/Content/Publications/Periodicals/MathUser/0205-771 (Mathematica Miscellany) or http://www.wolfram.com/news/mathwire/mathuser/1994spring.html You can access the mentioned MathSource notebook via ftp: ftp://ftp.mathsource.com/pub/NumberedItems/0205-366-0022 (I didn't find a link to it in the HTML version of MathSource.) This graphic is actually a reproduction of a much more detailed historical visualization of Napoleon's march by Minard. (Reproduced for example in Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Graphics Press 1983.) There was a paper about a new reconstruction on the IEEE Visualization 2000 conference by Matthew C. Humphrey (matth at iviz.com) called "Creating Reusable Visualizations with the Relational Visualization Notation". Hope this helps Martin Kraus