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Ask HN: What are the best illustrations in a technical book you've seen?
Any book, not necessarily in computing... any work with outstanding use of diagrams or illustrations to convey an idea. What illustrations impressed you most?
- Tomte 4y agoThe Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell: https://ccsb.scripps.edu/goodsell/machinery-of-life/ https://ccsb.scripps.edu/goodsell/machinery-of-life/
- praveenjuge 4y agohttps://justjavascript.com https://justjavascript.com
- Warchi3f 4y agoBoth of Robert Nystrom's books: - http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/ http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/ - https://craftinginterpreters.com/ https://craftinginterpreters.com/
- synack 4y agoReader's Digest Complete Guide to Sewing.
- cafard 4y agoWow. 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.
- wsh 4y agoI 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#UNIVERSAL 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.)