Reading 1: Color and Information

At first glace, maps in general seem to be a jumble of information, routes, and geographical lines representing who knows what. For example the map on page 80 in the book seems to me to be overly detailed with every little line representing every bump in the mountain. It gets a bit confusing if not for the colors used to represent the bodies of water and the land masses. If there were no color in the map, I wouldn't even try to struggle to read the text on the map.

As for the primary colors used in the Pythagora's Therem, I don't know if such vivid colors properly got information through. I think it's in part because there are so many lines and shapes that my eyes are struggling to see any hierarchy in the colors. Math in general is confusing for me as it probably is for others. Did we not all become art majors to avoid math classes? Oh...

In all, it is agreed that colors are awesome and make a great way to define maps if used properly.