OK, so who's going to do the correlation with en vogue colors from the same years (fashion, paint, cars, etc.)?
Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012
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Re: Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think this is mostly one line in which Mark Zuckerberg says something along the lines of "time for a little wget magic". Certainly not a major plot point. Here's what I think is the relevant scene on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odOzMz-fOOw
Wow, I was surprised on how realistic that was. Maybe I should watch the movie after all.
That's about as much tech talk as there is in the whole movie - you may be disappointed. Bit of a storm in a tea cup I thought.
Re: Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012
#73Ha, you can see the teal trend getting stronger in the 2000s. I wonder why the colorfulness of 1919-1921 was so quickly reverted?
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#74Interesting to watch the color gamut open up as color printing technologies improve over time. Blue/Cyan is the hardest pigment to work with, and you can see the blue-range grow over time as the technology to support it improves.
There's plenty of blue in 1919-21, but it disappears for the following decades. Either the data is seriously biased or something happened here.
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#75I wonder how much this adjusts for natural fading in prints.
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#76If they were scanned in recently, doesn't this just prove that print materials do indeed yellow over time?
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#77In the associated blog post he says: Methodology: I downloaded ~ 35k thumbnailed-size images (yay wget -- “The Social Network” inspired me to not use curl) Could some who's seen the film enlighten me on why wget is better than curl? Thanks.
HTTPie[1] is better than both. ;) 1. https://github.com/jkbr/httpie (I am in no way affiliated with this project. I'm just a happy user.)
But wget and curl aren't for humans, whereas HTTPie is. I've done plenty of `wget -m -np`s (and `puf -r` when I've had to saturate my Internet pipe...) which isn't what HTTPie does.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many great films are made on a fraction of the budget required to produce something like Toy Story. And anyway I don't think it's hard to imagine Pixar artists saying they were more motivated by the pure joy of creating something than by their paychecks. There are bad movies that are created specifically to be monetized -- that people need money is beside the point that often those who create the really good stuff ar…
If that were true, there would be other movies like Toy Story, but "open".
Well, it isn't quite as long, but http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/ was pretty good in terms of quality.
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#79Related: http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/ Shows an entire movie in a single image.
Can anyone explain how this works?
Re: Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012
#80Related: http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/ Shows an entire movie in a single image.
Can anyone explain how this works?
I don't know for sure, but judging from the sequence shots, looks like it scans a pixel column depending corresponding to the part of the movie. If it's scanning a frame halfway of the movie, it will scan the pixel column in the middle of the frame.