illustrator and i have come a long way…
originally did this one with a hue value of 180 (left) but i think 190 (right) reads better.
yasmary asked:
This sounds super neat. I have one question though, does this address ‘sexual fluidity’, or well.. having at one point being straight, then gay, then bi, or whatever combination your life happened to take you through?
it certainly should. each map belongs to one person, and each different group of segments represents one relationship. whether the hue is turqoise or red depends on whether that relationship was with a man or a woman.
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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.
