Here’s 36,000 frames from all of the black & white Hitchcock films…
The position of each frame on the circle is determined by two variables:
1) position in the film — frames from the start and end are near the top (12 o’clock) and the frames from halfway through are at the bottom (6 o’clock), etc.
2) the position on the axis — calculated from the average brightness of each frame, with darker frames near the centre, and brighter frames further out.
I’ve also done the same for individual films. I’m not sure if it’s possible to guess the film, but it’s interesting to see the differences between them all. They remind me of ink blots and paper chromatography experiments in science lessons :-)
I love these. What software do you use to generate them? I’d love to play around with it.
PermalinkHi Luke
I used Perl and ImageMagick. For each frame, I resized it to 1×1 pixel to get the average brightness. I’m going to have a stab at doing something with the colour films this week.
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Impresinante mosaico (7.200 x 7.200 pixels) compuesto por 36.000 imágenes de todas las películas en blanco y negro del director de cine Alfred Hitchcok, dispuestas en forma de círculo, y atendiendo a dos variables: la posición en la película y la …
PermalinkVery cool! I’d like to see these in color too.
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