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Vijay P
Personal blog · vijayp.ca/blog · on HN as vijaypprogrammingdata
Vijay P's personal blog at vijayp.ca covers programming and data. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Colours in movie posters since 1914”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Vijay P's analyses of colour in movie posters, which chart palette distributions from 1914 to 2012 and show shifts such as the Star Wars-era posters. Threads also discuss k-means dominant-colour extraction.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Colours in movie posters since 19143 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-06-20
What Hacker News says?
Hmm again in 1980: http://www.vijayp.ca/movies/index.html#1980 Maybe Lucas really was a visionary!
Comment linking /movies/index.html
on “Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012”Submitted Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012 as a story · 244 points
HN discussionLooks like Star Wars posters messed up 1977!? http://www.vijayp.ca/movies/index.html#1977
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on “Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012”Submitted Partychat — migrating from Google App Engine to EC2 as a story · 57 points
HN discussionI'm guessing this is a solved-many-times problem :) Here is my own version of the same thing: http://tylerneylon.com/a/imghist/ (and source) https://github.com/tylerneylon/imghist/blob/master/imghist.p... That also includes color histograms. Thoughts on actually using this: * If a human is using the color output, it's fun to weigh the colors by cluster sizes. * To find human-perspective dominant colors, it helps to…
Comment linking /blog/2012/06/colours-in-movie-posters-since-1914/
on “Using python and k-means to find dominant colors in images”Submitted Colours in movie posters since 1914 as a story · 20 points
HN discussionIf you pick any two colors, you can probably find a few thousand stills demonstrating that the pair is "everywhere." Not that Teal vs. Orange isn't a thing, I just don't feel this article has a stimulating way of demonstrating that it's an epidemic. I like this article most [1]... it has a nice chart showing colors from movie posters over roughly one hundred years. And Blue/Orange have always been pronounced. [1] ht…
Comment linking /blog/2012/06/colours-in-movie-posters-since-1914/
on “Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness”Submitted Colours in movie posters since 1914 as a story · 3 points
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