Show HN: Movie Iris - Visualizing Films Through Color Extraction

76 points · losincos · 2 days ago

I saw someone post these on reddit 4 years ago, and I really wanted to make them. I was surprised they didn't open source their code, so I rebuilt it.

Lots of things I would do differently now haha, but anyway, figured someone here might find it interesting.

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akashakya · 1 days ago

I did something similar a few years back. I find the Hilbert curve pattern much more interesting.

https://github.com/akash-akya/hilbert-montage

Not an original idea, it was inspired by someone else at that time.

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ChrisArchitect · 1 days ago

These barcode type things always remind of Cinema Redux - distilled films down into single images, an early memorable use of Processing.

https://brendandawes.com/projects/cinemaredux

carlsverre · 1 days ago

This is really cool. I'd love to see this done for the movie "Lola rennt" (Run Lola Run) which is studied for it's color symbolism throughout the film.

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sebastianlay · 22 hours ago

Reminds me of the time I applied this technique to basically a webcam stream of the northern night sky. You could immediately see if there were northern lights that night (and when) without having to scrub through the footage. I bet there are other use cases that haven't been explored yet.

azinman2 · 1 days ago

This is quite nice. Not sure what the meaning is of a circle versus, say, a linear strip, but it’s very effective for showing the dominant colors over time. I’d love to generally see this for many movies across time; my understanding is most are color graded green/yellow now and it’d be nice to visually see this evolution.

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