Re:Average color of the NYC sky every 5 minutes
by imadj on Friday June 09, 2023 @11:13AM
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The author is a designer who do many creative coding projects, he mentioned in an interview[1] back in 2011 that:
> I wrote this program that hooks up to a webcam. It takes a photo out the window every five minutes, and it will upload that to a server. The server then reads the sky portion of the photo, and it goes pixel by pixel. What it does is it takes all those values, the RGB values, and it averages them. So what you are seeing is not the dominant color in the sky it’s actually just the average color.
> I wrote this program that hooks up to a webcam. It takes a photo out the window every five minutes, and it will upload that to a server. The server then reads the sky portion of the photo, and it goes pixel by pixel. What it does is it takes all those values, the RGB values, and it averages them. So what you are seeing is not the dominant color in the sky it’s actually just the average color.
Mike Bodge's personal website:https://bod.ge/
Recent tweet by author: https://twitter.com/mikebodge/status/1666507978663690240
Here's also a submission from a decade ago (2011): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2685621
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[1] https://www.villagevoice.com/2011/06/23/mike-bodge-nskyc-cre...