The Art of Nomography (2020)

I first heard of nomograms on Project Rho's page about calculating spaceship missions: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/torchships.php#...

In addition to being practical calculators, they're amazing higher-order visualization tools.

http://www.projectrho.com/nomogram/ has more info on how to create them in the context of tabletop wargames.

This is a nice article.

I know of a couple other resources. First and foremost is the site modernnomographs [1]. Popular mechanics once included a perpetual calendar nomograph [2]. Possibly pynomo [3], a python tool to make nomographs, would also be interesting to others.

[1]: http://www.myreckonings.com/modernnomograms/ [2]: https://books.google.com/books?id=mN4DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA699&pg=... [3]: http://pynomo.org/wiki/index.php/Basics

This is my favorite nomograph: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hasan-Al-Mosawe/publica...

It's used for estimating the stiffness of asphalt based on temperature and loading rate. There's a slightly higher resolution version on page 91 of this pdf: https://www.crow.nl/getattachment/Asfalt-Impuls/Projecten/Fu...

Even Mr. Spock uses a nomographic computer when computing course correction angles for the galactic wind.

https://www.nicolamarras.it/calcolatoria/regoli_aeronautici_...

The takeoff and landing distance charts for many light aircraft are nomographs.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2537922/translate-p...

I made a nomogram of the electromagnetic spectrum many years ago using pynomo while I was still a researcher, that really helped with all of the different units.

ps. time flies

[1] http://thefreakazoid.blogspot.com/2010/03/nomograms.html [2} http://pynomo.org

Nice. Basically the same as a slide rule.

There is a german company that still sells these. [0]

[0]: https://www.rechenschieber-werbemittel.de/