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Life & fun · April 14, 2019

Itinerant

A fuzzy weather forecast app.

Itinerant launched on April 14, 2019 with 87 votes, #407 of 3,128 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

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What it does

Itinerant is an experimental weather forecast app, utilizing the human visual perception system instead of the symbolic interpretation system. It is an experiment in how long it takes to parse and understand weather information.

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Our visual perception system, with its 20+ billion neurons, is processing more information than all of our other senses combined Information Visualization: Perception for Design , Colin Ware . Its pattern-matching capabilities have evolved immensely over the centuries, giving us the ability to detect both larger patterns and intricate details within milliseconds. We are wired to detect shapes and colors, so why not use this system for visualizing and perceiving data? Our visual perception system, with its 20+ billion neurons, is processing more information than all of our other senses combined Information Visualization: Perception for Design , Colin Ware . Its pattern-matching capabilities…from brutalism.rs

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