The dictum “an image is worth a thousand words” is apt when trying to describe technical details, and this is particularly true for bronze sculpture. Therefore, the Guidelines rely heavily on illustrations. This section gathers all of the illustrations used in the publication, including radiographs, 3D models, sketches, charts, and diagrams. A fair number of these images have visual annotations to aid in their interpretation. In the online version these appear in layers that can be activated (turned on and off) by the reader. In the print-on-demand version, these are merged onto the image. In the digital publication it is possible to search for and browse through the photos and diagrams via keywords. In the print-on-demand version, the images all print together separately from the text in the order of appearance in the Guidelines.
The visual atlas also gathers short videos illustrating a range of fabrication processes described in the text. Links to them appear in the relevant sections of the Guidelines. Their inclusion is made possible by the digital format and affords readers a better sense of the gestures, timing, choreography, and sound involved in these processes—all of which are not readily conveyed in words.
