Collaborative Quiz:
Tufte's Chapter 7: Confections

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1. What are two "general strategies" or techniques for organizing or arranging images in a confection? Cite the page number(s) where you found these.

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2. What does Tufte mean when he says that confections sometimes require "instructed viewers"? What does this say about confections?

3..What is the difference between a collage and a confection, according to Tufte?

4. On pages 140 and 141, Tufte contrasts a good confection and a bad one. What distinguishes one from the other?

5. Late in the chapter, Tufte contrasts the confection as an approach to interface design to several other approaches. Explain one of these other alternatives (with page number) and its deficiencies compared to the confection, according to Tufte.