Visual Thinking Research

This was the more difficult of the two puzzles to solve. We both just went about drawing over the lines to figure out the solution. Since there were so many puzzles, it was a little tedious. We both found solutions to 6&7 pretty easy.

The cat puzzle was pretty easy to figure out. One person got 16 while the other person got 18. We then discussed the solution until we both saw 18, but looking at the solution I guess we were both wrong because there are 20 triangles.

Feature Channels and Visual Search

American Automobile Accidents

University of Washington

This spread shows the number of car accidents in a year. At the top the densly packed chart shows the overwhelming amount of accidents in a year. The red in the chart is then used to bring your eye down to the corresponding chart with the number of fatalities in a year. Within this chart the shape, color and spatial grouping help the viewer to recognize the different vehicles. Additional charts flank the right side of the page with cooler colors that show age and gender. These like the other charts are distinguished by color and spatial grouping.