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Lots of things I would do differently now haha, but anyway, figured someone here might find it interesting.
Show HN: Movie Iris - Visualizing Films Through Color Extraction
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"Red," "White," and "Blue" is a trilogy of French films made by Polish-born filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski. Each movie follows the color pallet.
Modern digital movies are way too sharp, in a bad way.
As a fun experiment several years ago I extracted all the frames of Skyfall and all the frames of the first Harry Potter movie.
I then reconstructed Harry Potter frame by frame using the corresponding frame from Skyfall that was most visually similar.
The end result was far more indecipherable than I'd ever expected. The much darker color pallet of Harry Potter lead to the final result largely using frames from a single dark scene in Skyfall, with single frames often being used over and over. It was pretty disappointing given it took hours and hours to process.
Thinking about it now, there's probably a way to compensate for this. Some sort of overall pallette compensation.
I have a cli tool I maintain that finds visually similar images. As a fun experiment several years ago I extracted all the frames of Skyfall and all the frames of the first Harry Potter movie. I then reconstructed Harry Potter frame by frame using the corresponding frame from Skyfall that was most visually similar. The end result was far more indecipherable than I'd ever expected. The much darker color pallet of Harr…
I don't know if this is the "original" (it's a common idea), but here's some "movie barcode" Python code from 9 years ago: https://github.com/timbennett/movie-barcodes
I have a cli tool I maintain that finds visually similar images. As a fun experiment several years ago I extracted all the frames of Skyfall and all the frames of the first Harry Potter movie. I then reconstructed Harry Potter frame by frame using the corresponding frame from Skyfall that was most visually similar. The end result was far more indecipherable than I'd ever expected. The much darker color pallet of Harr…
I have a cli tool I maintain that finds visually similar images. As a fun experiment several years ago I extracted all the frames of Skyfall and all the frames of the first Harry Potter movie. I then reconstructed Harry Potter frame by frame using the corresponding frame from Skyfall that was most visually similar. The end result was far more indecipherable than I'd ever expected. The much darker color pallet of Harr…