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Re: Chronophoto

#81
So simple, yet a lot of fun!

2,889 on my first round, 4,4xx on my second. It's fun zooming in and looking for cars, logos, and clothing style for hints. It's also neat to see, say, a road with cars from Model T style through to swoopy 1930s sedans. Contrast that with most historical movies where, if it's set in 1955, every car is from 1950 - 1957.

Re: Chronophoto

#82
post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's tricky. I got one that was full bright standard colour... from 1912. Normal contrast and hue and saturation, no noise. I assume recoloured later? There are bw photos from 70s and colour photos from 50s. Contrast and noise and hue can give clues, but nothing stops a photographer from using old film in new times. I ended up going for cars and styles more when possible.

> I assume recoloured later? Color capable film has been around since the late 19th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_color_film_systems

Sure, but the character of the saturations and hues is different. I think that’s what parent is talking about.

Re: Chronophoto

#86

The slider was incredibly frustrating to use on (Android) mobile. The game itself was fun though.

Works fine for me on Android. Perhaps a fix was made in the 4 hours since you posted your comment and me trying it.

It's fixed now. It wasnt't finely grained enough before, so you'd try to select 1978 and end up with e.g. 1979 or 1980.

Re: Chronophoto

#87
A good game for kids to show them how to recognize different eras. Many clues in each pic, including the colors that are representative of the film/tech used.

Re: Chronophoto

#88

I feel like this would work even better as a daily game like Wordle with the same 5 pics for everyone to play so you can (lightly) compete with friends. And at the end, you could get some trivia for each of the photos

Why would this work better as a daily game like wordle?

I ask because I disagree. Visuals are far more infinite than guessing a 5 letter word with restricted choices. Chrono and Wordle are not comparable.

Re: Chronophoto

#89
As my last image in round 5 I got a photo of WWF where Mankind was on top of the hell in a cell. I guessed 1998 because of the meme and got it correct! It was the only image I hit dead on.
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