Temperature

This simulation allows you to represent temperatures using color. You can set a minimum and maximum temperature by entering numbers to the left and the right of the $\leq x \leq$ . You can set the temperature to a specific value by either entering a value in the $x =$ box or by sliding the slider to that value. The colors always move from blue to orange, shifting through all of the colors in between, no matter what the minimum and maximum temperatures are. In this way, the color blue does not necessarily represent a temperature that is traditionally thought of as cold and the color orange does not necessarily represent a temperature that is traditionally thought of as hot. But blue is always colder than orange. Blue always represents the minimum temperature that is input by the user and and orange always represents the maximum temperature. The changing colors, combined with the sliding horizontal line segment, allow you to percieve the change in temperature (both direction and rate) in an intuitive, visceral way.

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