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What is this?

  • 14-03-2010 7:23pm
    #1
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭


    500x_flickrwheel.jpg

    What could this be? A futuristic mood ring? An artist's rendering of a wormhole? Nah. Those are too abstract. This is based on something all too real, and totally inescapable.

    What you're looking at is a project from Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg called Flickr Flow. It's a look at how the colors in Flickr images of the Boston Common change with every season:

    Our software calculated the relative proportions of different colors seen in photos taken in each month of the year, and plotted them on a wheel... Summer is at the top, with time proceeding clockwise.

    The ebb and flow of time, the passage of seasons, in a neverending circle. Poetry

    500x_flickr-samples2.jpg

    Pretty cool :)

    http://gizmodo.com/5491985/what-is-this


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  • #2
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,582 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    That's really interesting Tallon.

    When you say "Our software..." does that include you personally?

    I thought is was a shot looking down into a mug I bought in Urban Outfitters.


  • #3
    Thecageyone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,756 ✭✭✭Thecageyone


    Seen that the other day [think it popped up on stumble, or maybe it was in a thread on Flickr?] - It's ... predictable. i mean, if asked what you thought the most common colours in photos for each season were, you'd most likely say 'Winter: White, Summer: yellow/blue, Autumn: brown, Spring: green'

    No surprises there then.


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