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To: OGM who wrote (13680)	7/13/1999 2:33:00 AM
From: Jeffrey P	Respond to of 16960

and the Y axis is clearly trying to imply cost/performance or power or something. Even for the low bar of graphic design in annual reports, this seemed a bit excessive. You are mistaken! This is clearly a feature of the next-gen part!! Quad-linear anti-aliasing chart-fix-er-upers! ROFLMAO! Jeff P.

To: OGM who wrote (13680)	7/13/1999 3:51:00 AM
From: Chip Anderson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Re: Annual Report Charts - In his book "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information", Edward Tufte shows a chart titled "Age Structure of College Enrollment" (p.118). The vertical axis is labeled "Percent of Total Enrollment". The horizontal axis consists of the years 1972-1976. There are two colorful, curving, 3-D histograms drawn on the chart - one for people under 25 (in red), the other for people over 25 (in yellow). The z-axis is meaningless. As you might suspect, the histograms are mirror images of each other. Tufte's comments: "A series of weird three-dimensional displays appearing in the magazine American Education in the 1970s delighted connoisseurs of the graphically preposterous. Here five colors report, almost by happenstance, only five data pieces of data (since the division within each year adds to 100 percent). This may well be the worst graphic ever to find its way into print." Hmmmmmmmm... Chip stockcharts.com