Chapter 4 references: Develop informative visuals
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Chapter references
- AAAS Visuals blog.
- Adobe Illustrator
- Animate Your Science graphics/animation design service
- Animate Your Science, “How to Make Cool Animated Science Videos in PowerPoint”
- Animate Your Science, “Nothing Beats Video Abstracts for Summarizing Research”
- Animate Your Science, “Best Examples of Science Animations”
- Background Stories visual design service
- Background Stories, “Selecting the Right Graph,” May 23, 2018.
- BioRender
- Brightstat
- Camtasia
- Creately
- exGIF.com
- Few, Stephen, Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten, Analytics Press, 2012.
- Few, Stephen, Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantiative Analysis, Analytics Press, 2009.
- Frankel, Felice, “Making Science and Engineering Pictures: A Practical Guide to Presenting Your Work,” MIT Open Courseware.
- Frankel, Felice, Picturing Science and Engineering, MIT Press 2018.
- gnuplot
- Infogram
- Lucidchart
- Matlab
- May, Tom, “The Best Free Alternative to Adobe Illustrator 2018,” techradar, December 6, 2017.
- Microsoft Hololens
- Oculus virtual reality system
- Orgin and OriginPro
- PowerPoint Heaven
- Prism
- Smartdraw
- Snagit
- Tufte, Edward, Beautiful Evidence: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Graphics Press, 2001.
- Venngage
- Visio
General references
- (Animated GIFs) Williams, Alex, "Fresh from the Internet Attic," The New York Times, February 13, 2013
- International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge
- Kyrnin, Jennifer, Color Symbolism Chart by Culture, About.com
- Shutterstock, The Meaning of Color in Cultures Around the World, October 30, 2020
Tools and techniques for creating images and animations
- Adobe Dimension for 3D image creation
- Alison Courses, "Photography" (List of other free online photography courses)
- Atkinson, Cliff, Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire, Microsoft Press, 2007
- Biointeractive collection of life science multimedia
- BioRender for creating publication-quality science illustrations. See also Aoki, Shiz, and Zeppa, Joseph, Video: Design Principles 101: Top Figure-Making Tips to Boost Science Communication, AAAS meeting 2021
- Beam is a simple, free tool for creating basic charts and graphs from data
- Build-a-Graphic PowerPoint add-in for automatically creating graphics from text
- Canva web system for creating online and print graphics
- Chart Chooser collection of data visualization formats
- ChemDraw for illustrating molecules
- Creately
- Chartle.net for producing online charts
- Crooks, Ross, "Why Most People's Charts & Graphs Look Like Crap," Inbound Marketing, May 28, 2014
- Digital Photography Basics—an Incredible Beginners Guide to Taking Great Photos (Thanks to Sarah Johnson for the link!)
- Exploratree site for creating visual "thinking guides"
- Exposure Guide, The Ultimate Macro Photography Tutorial for Beginners
- Extreme Presentation Method for designing visualizations of information
- Photoshop Tools and Terms (Thanks to Lauren for the link!)
- EZGif animated GIF maker and editor
- Felix from Adobe for creating photorealistic 3D images
- Flowing Data, "What Visualization Tool/Software Should You Use? — Getting Started," and tutorials on data visualizations
- Friedman, Vitali, "Data Visualization:Modern Approaches," Smashing Magazine, August 2, 2007
- GIF Maker makes GIFs from videos
- GIPHY gif collection
- Google Chart Tools for displaying live data on your site
- "How to Create Animated GIFs Using Photoshop," wikiHow
- Infogram
- Infograpify infographic templates
- How to Embed Fully Interactive 3D Documents into PowerPoint
- Images in Your Blog Posts: Best Practices
- Imgflip animated GIF maker
- Imgur gif maker offers video-to-GIF feature for posted videos
- Lucidchart
- Macroscopic Solutions macrophotography equipment and imaging services
- Matterport camera system for creating 3D models
- May, Tom, “The Best Free Alternative to Adobe Illustrator 2018,” techradar, December 6, 2017
- Microsoft Photos for creating Ken Burns effect galleries
- National Geographic How to take Macro Pictures
- makeagif animated GIF generator (rated the best by PC Magazine)
- Making Data Meaningful guides for effective presentation of statistics, United Nations Economics Commission for Europe
- Meredith, Dennis, "Use Infographics to Explain Your Work," Research Explainer, December 2011
- Molecular Workbench for visual simulations
- Myers, Louise, "How to Create an Infographic People Will Rave About!," Louise Myers Visual Social Media, August 22, 2016
- National Geographic Digital Photography Tips
- Panorama maker Bubbli for iPhone, iPad
- Panorama Maker Pro for combining images into panoramas
- Panorama Studio for combining images into panoramas
- Panoweaver for creating panoramic images
- Parkinson, Mike, Video: Graphics That Just Don't Work
- PetaPixel, "The Best Free Online Photography Courses and Tutorials
- Photo Contest Insider, "4 Best, Must-TakeFree Online Photography Courses"
- PTGui panorama stitching software
- Periodic Table of Data Visualization Methods
- Picasion animated gif generator
- PowerPoint Spice, "Cool Zoom Animation Effect: PowerPoint Animation Tutorial"
- Polyview-3D for creating molecular models for presentations and web
- Proteopedia 3D encyclopedia of proteins and other molecules
- Sahakians, Sandrine, 12 Tools to Create an Infographic in 30 Minutes, Buffer Marketing Library
- ScienceSlides professionally designed, editable slides
- Schmidt, Gregory, "Create You Tube-Worthy Videos With a Few Simple Tools," The New York Times, March 9, 2016
- Smartdraw visual processor
- Snagit for capturing and manipulating screen images
- Snagit: Getting Started with Snagit webinar
- The Noun Project collection of icons and images
- The Ultimate Savings Guide for Beginner Photographers: 50+ Tips and Resources (Thanks to Hannah for this link!)
- Tirosh, Udi, "The Comprehensive Guide to Macro Photography," DIY Photography
- United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, A Guide to Presenting Statistics, (part of Making Data Meaningful guide series)
- Top Five 3D Molecular Visualization Technologies
- Venngage for making infographics. Both free and paid versions
- Visio for creating diagrams and flowcharts
- Visme for producing visual slides and infographics.
- Walgrove, Amanda, "The Pros, Cons, and Costs of the Top 5 DIY Infographic Tools," The Freelancer, September 1, 2016
- Wow Slider for creating moving image galleries and other effects for websites
- Windows Movie Maker (Need to purchase Pro version for full features)
- Wondershare Filmora for creating Ken Burns effect slide show
- Best free alternatives for Windows Movie Maker
- XVIVO Scientific Animations
- 12 Best Online Photography Courses, Schools & Degrees from Online Courses Review
Science and medical illustrators
Resources for VR and AR app development
- Arkitek Scientific
- AXS Studio medical illustrations, animations and interactive experiences
- Brio VR and AR company
- Caltech News, "Virtual Reality for Scientists," October 4, 2019
- Goddard, Thomas D., et al., "Molecular Visualization on the Holodeck," Journal of Molecular Biology, Vol. 430, No. 21, October 19, 2018
- Immersive VR Education platform
- Ippolito, Pier Paolo, "Getting Started with Augmented and Virtual Reality," Towards Data Science, August 15, 2019
- Matthews, David, "Virtual-Reality Applications Give Science a New Dimension," Nature, April 30, 20i8
- Microsoft Hololens
- Microsoft Hololens developer page
- Nanome, "Virtual Reality: Past, Present & Future," June 17, 2019
- Nanome, "Why Structural Biologists Love 3D Molecular Visualization in Virtual Reality," May 24, 2019
- Nanome, "Structural Biology: Molecular Modeling, Visualization & Drug Discovery," June 21, 2019
- Oculus
- Oculus educational apps
- PROteinVR app for visualizing protein molecules in VR
- Roelandse, Martijin and Wallerius Kristen, "How Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Can Revolutionize Science," Scientific American, October 30, 2018
- The ROAR AR company
- 3D for Science medical illustration, animation, VR, and AR apps
- Virtualitics VR company
- Warren, Tom, "Microsoft Mesh Feels Like the Virtual Future of Microsoft Teams Meetings," The Verge, March 2, 2021.
- Zhang, Jimmy F., et al, "BioVR: A Platform for Virtual Reality Assisted Biological Data Integration and Visualization," BMC Bioinformatics, February 15, 2019
Sources for science cartoons and humor
