Itinerant – a fuzzy weather forecast app

Itinerant is an experimental weather forecast app, utilizing the human visual perception system (i.e. recognizing shapes and colors) instead of the symbolic interpretation system (i.e. reading words and numbers). Since we’re all used to reading data as symbols, it was natural that the weather forecast interfaces (in TV news segments, mobile apps, etc) would evolve to show us these data points using numbers. , but on the other hand we have a hard time remembering exact color shades and we even have difficulty naming color shades in a consistent manner

Again, Information Visualization: Perception for Design, Colin Ware
, so there’s quite a bit of ambiguity there.

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