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Re: Chronophoto

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Post by yieldcrv »

thechao wrote: post #148
yieldcrv wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I found 1973-1997 looking very similar in color film quality, and cars on the street. maybe if I was more familiar with models, maybe. it was only obvious it was 80s or 90s if something silly was going on. my top score is 2900 right now

I got a bunch of Edwardian—WW2 photos in one go, and netted 3190. I might be able to get higher than that, but only if the photos predate 2000. I think styles changed a lot from 1900—1970. After that, things are pretty hard to distinguish; retroactive clothing styles muddyvthe waters.

got 3632! and now my watch has ended

Re: Chronophoto

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Post by Daegalus »

macintux wrote: post #107
dougdonohoe wrote: post #43

Reminds me of the Timeline (I think this is the name) card game where every player has a bunch of cards, each of which represents a historical event (e.g., moon landing, or sinking of Titanic, discovery of Radium, etc. Each player has to put down the card in the proper order, with respect to previous cards played. It gets harder as more cards are "on the timeline". Fun game.

In the U.S. we have Chronology, sounds like the same game. This link (grabbed from another thread here) is similar. https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/

Timeline is easily found in the US. I bought a copy a couple months ago.

Re: Chronophoto

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Post by wizofaus »

klabb3 wrote: post #34

It’s incredible to see how quickly things changed ~1910-1930 in terms of infrastructure and technology. You’re going from horses and cobblestone to almost modern cars and pavement, within just 20 years or so.

I would say that change happened much earlier, and was almost complete by 1911 in many US cities. OTOH I had a hard time telling apart cars from 1910s vs 1930s. Around the early/mid 30s a much more modern style of car came on the scene (Ford Phaeton etc. I guess), but I suppose it took a while before the Model-T style vehicles were all replaced.

Re: Chronophoto

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Post by kerryoco »

XCSme wrote: post #42

I love how there are no instructions, and yet it's pretty obvious what the goal is and how to achieve it, good UX.

for the first 30 seconds with the "Submit" button I thought it was a crowdsourced analytical thing though. Almost bounced. Might be worth changing the wording but otherwise agree

Re: Chronophoto

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Post by par »

3dfx wrote: post #144
airstrike wrote: post #71

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

The trivia thing was asked for at reddit too, but i looked into the file storage of the server and it seems that the photos are just plainly stolen from all over the internet with file names like chronophoto.app/years/1963/ap630629032-02fcaf4ca7736109b998d760283a3a9ba7bceda7-s900-c85.webp or chronophoto.app/years/2017/ed-jones-north-korea-top-100-photos-2017.jpg No credit is given anywhere too. This is probably illeg…

> author will get in a lot of trouble if he does not do something about that soon.

probably worst thing that will happen is some kind of cease and desist.

Re: Chronophoto

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Post by gojomo »

system2 wrote: post #131
gojomo wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Potentially, it might help find errors in the existing year-labeling - either via recognizing cases where guessers have wide divergences with a certain bias, or the explicit avenue via the about (email with errors). Or, help identify features of a photo that definitively place it at certain times, by human perception. That might help tune autogenerated content intended to reflect certain eras to avoid anachronisms, o…

Pretty far fetched. The date of the photos are known so ai's only intention would be to find out if humans suck at guessing or not. Which would be a useless data to improve the systems.

But some of the dates have errors, which one might, in some applications like to find.

And alternatively, how well a scene matches the audience's clear indicators of era is valuable in entertainment – even moreso than accuracy, in some cases.

Again, I don't think these are likely motivations for this particular system. But in a wide world of many aims, it's within the realm of possibiity that someone might try a system like this for such purposes.

Re: Chronophoto

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Post by wizofaus »

wizofaus wrote: post #143
PeterisP wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would photos dated in the 30s that were in full high resolution colour be surprising? Resolution has never been a problem for early color photos, the actual coloring was, and the expense/difficulty of the process. This - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/... and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/... - come from 1910s. And in 1935-1936 effectively modern col…

Perhaps, but this particular one (looked like some dignitary inspecting an army, assuming an Asian country but couldn't say which) was especially crisp with high colour saturation that didn't match that of other photos from that period, indeed I assumed it was from the 70s or 80s.

https://codepen.io/wizofaus/full/rNrPYZX is another photo I would never have guessed the year of from the quality of the image. Even if the outfits/equipment are obviously from a particular period, I'd think it was a reenactment or a scene from a movie...
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