Tue 26 Jun
2012
How Movie Posters Have Changed Colors
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Khoi Vinh
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Software engineer Vijay Pandurangan surveyed the color trends of movie posters from the past ninety-eight years and found that they have become steadily more blue.
Each row in the graphic above represents a year and the distribution of colors across all of that year’s posters. Read more here.
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Need more information on how this data set was compiled. Either way, surprising omission of greens, purple and pink. I guess hippies and little girls don’t watch many movies : )
Here is the answer on the data set:
“Vijay Pandurangan downloaded 35,000 poster thumbnails from a movie site, counted the color pixels in each image, and then grouped them by year and sorted by hue.”