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Just saw these film mosaics on information aesthetics and thought I’d share my own version.

For more see the moviehist-tag on this blog.

I give you: Tank Girl: In 2033, justice rides a tank and wears lip gloss. There is no particular reason to this choice, just found it on my disk.

Each column corresponds to four frames of the original video, the color of each pixel is the average color of the corresponding rows of these frames. Apart from looking funky, this view allows you to see vertical movement (for example the rolling credits at the end) and cuts easier.

Each row shows 5120 frames (in case you wonder, the averaging program generates slices of 1024 frames), which should be 3.4 minutes.

I’ll release the toolset used (it’s not processing, btw), it makes use of OpenCV, Image Magick and some shell script. That is, run it on your favorite Unix derivate. Soon.

And if I can spare some disk space, there will be more average images of more movies. Watch out for the moviehist tag!