Re: Presenting Results

[Jan Kreft]

Hi Steve,

On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, M. Lang / S. Railsback wrote:

> SCHREIBER,DARREN MATTHEW wrote:
> > 
> > Here's a basic question... how do we present results?
> 
> Good question!
> 
> I'll add to it: Who has experience, positive or negative, with pasting
> images from their Swarm windows into a journal article? We just changed
> our raster so it shows shades of grey instead of colors, to see if it
> would look better in print than colors converted to greyscale by the
> printer (probably not).
> 
> The power of the animation window to transfer information and
> understanding (and to entertain and mesmerize) is very hard to give up,
> especially after you're run your sim in front of a room full of people
> and they all thought it was cool and consequently got excited about your
> work.
> 
> I'm preparing a paper and considering putting animation movies of the
> model runs in the paper up on our web site; create a special page just
> for the publication, and give the address in the paper. People could
> click to download the GIF animation of the model run used to generate
> the results in Fig. 4b, etc. etc. I am curious to see what journal
> editors and reviewers think of this idea; it seems useful at least for
> the review process.

That's basically what I did, and the editors/reviewers thought it useful.


Best, Jan.

Jan Kreft                               Phone +44 (0)1222 875278
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> (The web page might also be a good place for other information that
> SHOULD be of critical interest to reviewers and readers but couldn't
> possibly go in the article- like the complete model description and
> documentation of all the careful testing done to make sure the code
> really does what we think.) 
> 
> Steve
> -- 
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