Informative Art is a type of computer applications which borrow their appearance from well-known artistic styles to visualize dynamically updated information.

  六个城市天气情况的视觉化表示

   The image consists of six colored squares, on a background of black lines forming an irregular grid. Each square is mapped to a particular city in the world. The placement is roughly based on a
world map with the Greenwich meridian in the center, so that the position of each square corresponds to the approximate position of the corresponding city on the map. We chose a range of cities from countries around the world, which would have different temperatures and conditions.    
   The upper row represents from left to right Los Angeles, USA; Gothenburg, Sweden; and Tokyo, Japan. On the lower row is Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Cape Town, South Africa;
and Sydney, Australia. The position of the squares is fixed, but the current weather in the
corresponding city affects the appearance of each square in two ways. The size of the square changes with the temperature in the city, so that the hotter it is, the bigger the square will get. The color of the square is determined by the weather conditions in the city.
We took the same primary colors that Mondriaan used – red, yellow and blue – and mapped these to weather conditions. Yellow means clear weather, blue represents some kind of downfall (rain
or snow), and red means cloudy weather. We reasoned that yellow would be associated with sun, and blue with water – the remaining color, which was red, then came to mean cloudy conditions.