Timeline for How were scientific plots made in the 1960s?
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| S May 1, 2023 at 18:32 | history | edited | user137975 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S May 1, 2023 at 18:32 | history | suggested | cconsta1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 1, 2023 at 18:22 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jan 26, 2021 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1353900681833439234 | ||
| Jan 24, 2021 at 3:09 | answer | added | Scott Seidman | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 23, 2021 at 22:45 | answer | added | Luc | timeline score: 14 | |
| Jan 23, 2021 at 17:19 | comment | added | J. Mini | Mandatory PHD Comics strip. | |
| Jan 23, 2021 at 0:58 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | @DKNguyen: I think just eyeball it. | |
| Jan 22, 2021 at 22:08 | comment | added | DKNguyen | @DanielR.Collins Do you know how she determined the tangent? | |
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| Jan 22, 2021 at 20:40 | comment | added | Tom | I also like these minimalist plots and hate the current fashion to have ''fancy'' graphics and plots. | |
| Jan 22, 2021 at 19:21 | comment | added | jamesqf | @RTbecard: Finding THE font used is probably a moot question, because people back then didn't think in terms of multiple fonts. If drawing by hand, you used whatever was etched into your little plastic plotting thing. If it was done on a plotter, there was one and only one "font" built into the machine, which was probably digitized by some low-level company employee. But the Hershey fonts would probably come as close as you're likely to get: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_fonts | |
| Jan 22, 2021 at 12:10 | comment | added | RTbecard | @Snijderfrey I wanted to be really particular about the font family used in these plots. I can find similar fonts by just eyeing it, but I want the satisfaction of having the font used in these plots. Also, I'm not trying to replicate this plot per say, but I want to understand how to make any general plot in this formatting, hence I'm interested in the practices regarding spacing between plot elements etc. | |
| Jan 22, 2021 at 3:16 | comment | added | jamesqf | @alephzero: Workalikes of the Calcomp plotting routines were widely used at least into the late 1980s, having been implemented for displays and PostScript printers, among other devices. | |
| Jan 22, 2021 at 1:13 | comment | added | GEdgar | A similar question, and picture of French curves ... see hsm.stackexchange.com/a/3638/229 | |
| Jan 22, 2021 at 0:36 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | I had a girlfriend in college in the early 90's whose day job, as I understood it, was to draw tangent lines to contours on topographical maps, by hand with a ruler, at particular locations. | |
| Jan 22, 2021 at 0:14 | comment | added | alephzero | Computer controlled plotters were being marketed in the 1960s. One of the market leaders, Calcomp, produced its first product in 1959. | |
| Jan 21, 2021 at 23:23 | answer | added | C. McCracken | timeline score: 62 | |
| Jan 21, 2021 at 21:26 | comment | added | Ben Bolker | xkcd style also in R: stackoverflow.com/questions/12675147/… . If you use R + ggplot2 you could look at datanovia.com/en/blog/ggplot-themes-gallery/#theme_tufte | |
| S Jan 21, 2021 at 18:21 | history | suggested | Andreas Rejbrand | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 21, 2021 at 18:00 | comment | added | Snijderfrey | Good question. But in how far does knowing the tools used back in the days help you when trying to replicate the aesthetics? To me, it seems quite straighforward to make a graph like in your example with a modern computer. Correct me if I am ignorant. Or do you really want use the old techniques? | |
| Jan 21, 2021 at 17:51 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jan 21, 2021 at 17:43 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jan 21, 2021 at 12:43 | vote | accept | RTbecard | ||
| Jan 21, 2021 at 12:41 | comment | added | RTbecard | Thanks for the links! @henning I hadn't heard of Tufte before... really interesting, I may pick up their text. I've been really frustrated with the lack of care and quality in published plots within my generation of researchers... Tufte seems to be the antidote I was looking for. | |
| Jan 21, 2021 at 10:37 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | For fun, you can also have a look at packages that make xkcd-style plots (this is for Python, but there are also for Matlab and Mathematica). | |
| Jan 21, 2021 at 10:31 | comment | added | henning no longer feeds AI | Regarding digital replication, you might be interesting in this guide to minimalist Tufte style ggplot2/R plots:motioninsocial.com/tufte | |
| Jan 21, 2021 at 10:15 | answer | added | Massimo Ortolano | timeline score: 95 | |
| Jan 21, 2021 at 10:12 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 21, 2021 at 9:49 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 21, 2021 at 9:42 | history | asked | RTbecard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |