Related to "Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green" - Soviet designers apparently reached the same conclusion, but they applied it to aircraft cockpits instead of control rooms and used a slightly more blueish color: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/16434/why-are-r...
While no one would ever navigate by learning what the mosaics mean, it's a fantastic setup for the expected audience of commuters. Give it a month and your brain would associate a given color with your stop coming up soon, and make navigation easier.
xg15 1 days ago [-]
I remember having read a story about some wild dogs in Moscow apparently having learned to use the subway and establishing their own "commute schedule".
I always wondered how the dogs would identify the station to leave the train - counting stations or understanding how the announcements worked felt too "smart". But I imagine the simplest way for them would be to just learn the design of different stations over time and jump off once they see a familiar design through the windows.
jabl 1 days ago [-]
If I had to make I guess, I'd go with the dogs recognizing the smell. Dogs apparently don't have terribly good vision, but as I'm sure we all know, a very good sense of smell.
xg15 1 days ago [-]
Goid point, but from inside the train?
jabl 1 days ago [-]
Maybe when the doors open the characteristic smell of that station enters the cars?
xnx 24 hours ago [-]
I expected more than one photo given the subject.
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Interestingly enough, Soviet control rooms (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Co...) were the color of Western aircraft cockpits, and vice versa...
While no one would ever navigate by learning what the mosaics mean, it's a fantastic setup for the expected audience of commuters. Give it a month and your brain would associate a given color with your stop coming up soon, and make navigation easier.
I always wondered how the dogs would identify the station to leave the train - counting stations or understanding how the announcements worked felt too "smart". But I imagine the simplest way for them would be to just learn the design of different stations over time and jump off once they see a familiar design through the windows.