just to explain the change in color choice: the original idea was that different hues would make it easier to distinguish different relationships.

there were two problems with this:

• the first was that there was no system for assigning a hue to an relationship, so the color choices were arbitrary (and could cause confusion. why is this one purple? etc)
• the second was that the same saturation and brightness levels read differently based on the hue. it’s difficult to tell that a dark yellow carries the same information as a dark pink.

the solution was: one hue to represent males (the turquoise) and one to represent females (i will probably go with a pinkish red)

so far, it seems as though the difference in saturation/brightness is enough to tell different relationships apart.

finished, i think.

i don’t think i’ll need to use numbers or the like to differentiate between people- each separate shade/tint of that blue seems distinguishing enough.

hue: 190
possibility for all data representing males.

one of the very first drafts. wanted to document this one before i try switching over to a two-hue (one for females, one for males) system.

also in here is the first draft of trying to deal with a very ambiguous piece of data: that weird green section with lots of colored dots. not the most graceful solution, but it was a large stretch of time containing numerous casual encounters with numerous different people. there are no specific dates, so i am still working out the best solution for that.

#420 progress
i swear it was generated from a name/number encryption formula.