Ask HN: What are the best illustrations in a technical book you've seen?

Posted by hlandau on Saturday August 20, 2022 @09:24AM
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Any book, not necessarily in computing... any work with outstanding use of diagrams or illustrations to convey an idea. What illustrations impressed you most?

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best illustrations in a technical bo... by Warchi3f on Saturday August 20, 2022 @02:22PM (#32534097)

Both of Robert Nystrom's books:

- http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/

- https://craftinginterpreters.com/

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best illustrations in a technical bo... by wsh on Saturday August 20, 2022 @11:24PM (#32537143)

I liked the illustrations in the COCOMITE guidebook to professional tools, published by Trusco Nakayama in Japan. It’s online in English here:

https://www.orange-book.com/ja/c/cocomite/index.html#UNIVERS...

(The title is from the Japanese ここ見て, koko mite = look here.)

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best illustrations in a technical bo... by Tomte on Saturday August 20, 2022 @09:26AM (#32531910)

The Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell: https://ccsb.scripps.edu/goodsell/machinery-of-life/

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best illustrations in a technical bo... by cafard on Saturday August 20, 2022 @06:57PM (#32535892)

Wow. There is a book on electrical work call (I think) Wiring Simplified, which I thought very good. Andrew Tannenbaum's book on operating systems (the one with Minix) had good illustrations, I thought.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best illustrations in a technical bo... by praveenjuge on Saturday August 20, 2022 @10:16AM (#32532193)

https://justjavascript.com

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best illustrations in a technical bo... by synack on Saturday August 20, 2022 @02:22PM (#32534101)

Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Sewing.

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