Using pretext to make video masks – The Matrix (1999) example Posted by zknowledge on Sunday March 29, 2026 @03:24PM from the pretext.zkarimi.com dept. https://pretext.zkarimi.com/ ( 1 comment | on HN )
YEP! w/ sampling each frame, detecting light/dark regions, then reflowing text into those shapes in realtime we get this cool realtime effect.
and ofc i did it with The Matrix first.
github repo: https://github.com/zkarimi22/pretext-video