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I disagree. If one is not familiar with this opus, one shall have to expend more attention than would be suitable on matching the illustrations on the probability trees to their names and abbreviations.
Pictures edited.
Talk about inferential distance; for some reason it didn't even occur to me that people might not know their names (whereas I did think long and hard before going with that as my only example). I'll edit the pictures to include the names (tomorrow).
Seriously? I see these damned horses for the first time in life. Not only I don't know their names, but it is hard to distinguish them visually. And I put quite a big probability on the hypothesis that 95% of people whom I personally know are unfamiliar with this as well.
Couldn't you go with apple, pizza, bicycle, broken watch, pen, or whatever sort of items whose names are known? It would perhaps be too ordinary, but your present choice really makes it harder.
I didn't know them either, but this post was one of the last straws that broke the back of my resistance made me start watching the series.
(It's good, by the way!)
Yes. I'm not sure why.
Future posts will not re-use this example. I wanted to use lots of pictures for this one to make sure the steps were clear, and found it easier to motivate myself to do that with ponies.
How hard are they to distinguish visually? They are each dominated by a single (unique) color. Is my model of visual perception wrong?
The colours are "similar", in that they are all pastel tones, and I have probably not good memory for colours. Now when I am looking on the ponies for the third or fourth time, I am starting to "feel the difference", but at the beginning, I saw six extremely similar ugly pictures.
My explanation probably isn't very good, but visual impressions are difficult to describe verbally.
Hmm, that's interesting, because I personally thought that the ponies were well designed. They each have a unique color scheme, and a distinct silhouette. Guess I was wrong, though.
I don't say they are not well designed. Perhaps this is the best they could do while maintaining their artistic style, or they didn't try to optimise distinctiveness in the first place.
Seconding prase: "Seriously? I see these damned horses for the first time in life. Not only I don't know their names, but it is hard to distinguish them visually."
Make that "most of these damned horses" and "almost for the first time". I have kids, and they watch TV, so I'm vaguely aware of these things in much the same way I'm vaguely aware of cars honking outside: it's a somewhat unwelcome but not actively unpleasant awareness.
(Also the MLP allusion joke has already been done here before. Without pictures, admittedly, but I'd still judge it a "once and only once" kind of joke.)
I agree. I'm halfway through, and I really wish I had a handy key of which initials go with which ponies - or just those initials next to every instance of every pony. right now, I have to track lots of extra details that have little bearing on the material.
TS - purple/purple, AJ - orange/yellow, PP - pink/pink,
RD - blue/rainbow, R - white/purple, FS - yellow/pink
Eh. I'm not familiar with this opus, and I managed.