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Re: Graphic Presentation (1939)

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Post by madcaptenor » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 3:49 PM UTC

madcaptenor wrote: post #10

shmageggy wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are fairly easy to find using HN search ( https://hn.algolia.com ) Here's one from 1584: Natural Magick (1584) 67 points by brudgers on Oct 8, 2019 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21180895 ) I'm sure you could easily go back further

Back to 1300: Adriaen Coenen’s Fish Book (1580) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10267645 That to Study Philosophy Is to Learn to Die (1580): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26611980 The Geometric Landscapes of Lorenz Stoer (1567): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25735432 Qvestions of Love, and the Ansvvers (1566): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11836805 Concerning Prohibited Books (1563): https…

And then I realized I could search for "BC" and found:

The Maxims of Ptahhotep (circa 2350 BC): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30425039

Re: Graphic Presentation (1939)

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Post by keepamovin » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 4:07 PM UTC

Holy shit. This entire book is interesting. Particularly interesting is Chapter 42 - Three-Dimensional Methods

In 1935 they cut out wooden sections to be plane-slices of a 3D volume plot and stacked them together and photographed it!!

https://archive.org/details/graphicpresentat00brinrich/page/...

Re: Graphic Presentation (1939)

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Post by thsksbd » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 4:09 PM UTC

emmelaich wrote: post #9

red_admiral wrote: post #2

Is (1939) the oldest date reference on HN so far?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops is submitted occasionally. It's from 1909

Amazing book

Re: Graphic Presentation (1939)

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Post by echoangle » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 4:12 PM UTC

The PDF image quality is much worse than the preview, i hope EPUB is better but for some reason the EPUB download is very slow (~50 KB/s)

Re: Graphic Presentation (1939)

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Post by the_arun » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 5:33 PM UTC

How much of analysis & details have gotten in to this book?

Humans have come a long way!!

Re: Graphic Presentation (1939)

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Post by __fst__ » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 6:58 PM UTC

Beautiful book. Amazing how these were produced so neatly before the computer age. There's whole collection of books like this on archive.org under "Graphic methods"

https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Graphic+method...

Re: Graphic Presentation (1939)

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Post by __mharrison__ » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 7:12 PM UTC

This is awesome. A ton of work went into this book.

My grandfather was an advertiser/illustrator during this time period. I wonder if he had this book in his basement library...

Re: Graphic Presentation (1939)

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Post by zuminator » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 7:19 PM UTC

echoangle wrote: post #14

The PDF image quality is much worse than the preview, i hope EPUB is better but for some reason the EPUB download is very slow (~50 KB/s)

Really? I would say it's about the same quality as the preview. Did you download the full color PDF or the black and white PDF?

Re: Graphic Presentation (1939)

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Post by echoangle » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 7:49 PM UTC

zuminator wrote: post #18

echoangle wrote: post #14

The PDF image quality is much worse than the preview, i hope EPUB is better but for some reason the EPUB download is very slow (~50 KB/s)

Really? I would say it's about the same quality as the preview. Did you download the full color PDF or the black and white PDF?

Full color. Look at the sticker on the second page, the right edge and the letters make the difference very obvious. The PDF looks extremely compressed.

Re: Graphic Presentation (1939)

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Post by Lammy » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 8:46 PM UTC

echoangle wrote: post #19

zuminator wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? I would say it's about the same quality as the preview. Did you download the full color PDF or the black and white PDF?

Full color. Look at the sticker on the second page, the right edge and the letters make the difference very obvious. The PDF looks extremely compressed.

Might indicate poor support for JPEG2000 in Archive's software? That's what you get when you click the download link for "Original" files. Sadly it's not easily readable that way but at least someone could use them to assemble a better PDF with some cropping, rotation, and white-balance: https://i.imgur.com/IdBujgi.png