“The Visual Thesaurus” is simply a thesaurus with the same theatrical function except more theatrical considering that “The Visual Thesaurus” rearranges all the associate words into a web. Despite such transformation, I do not think “The Visual Thesaurus” would actually be any more beneficial than using a regular thesaurus online. If anything, the “The Visual Thesaurus” evokes frustration when you have to associate the words to a certain color and then look up the definition which is only displayed when you put your cursor over a dot and make sure you are looking at the corresponding word’s definition. Additionally, if you look up a word with a lot of associated terms, the web gets crowded and the words overlap and then you cannot read all the words that are displayed. I would simply just use a regular online thesaurus such as dictionary.reference.com especially since the programmers want you to pay to use the “The Visual Thesaurus.” In totality, this I think this is bad art and clearly the "process that drives the painter" is money.
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