Ishihara colour blindness tests - portrait art

2 portraits in one image

(sorry about the video format - blogger is giving problems with some videos)

Scanography Kickstarter Project is about to go live...

After various experiments, I've decided to start a new Kickstarter Project based on the slit-scan of whole movies
Some examples here...

Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope

Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Blade Runner

The Matrix

Rogue One - A Star Wars Story 

Pulp Fiction

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Star Trek (2009)

Star Wars Episode VII - The Force Awakens

Watchmen

Editions in a different size/format

I thought that not everyone would like to have a huge abstract Movie Map on their wall, so I decided to make a smaller version, with just the palette and the soundtrack
(all source from A New Hope)

The is the original in the Widescreen Aspect ratio of the movie

But I thought it would be good to offer a Postcard sized print and came up with this

Updates For Movie Maps

I thought it was about time to update this blog and add a historical record of how the work is progressing...

The next thing I did was decide to add the soundtrack
So I wrote an application to draw the sound waves for me

Here is the image for the soundtrack of A New Hope

Its a bit messy
So I cleaned it up and added it to the palette print (to see if there was any correlation between the sound and the visuals)...

 I tried to use the soundtrack as a mask

I did not think that was too good, so perhaps a line?

No.. some kind of transparency?

I even tried a Torus...

Not really...
So just a straight plot

I thought that idea worked best
So, now to try to add it to the Movie Map

I also removed the garish title - then added it down the side in very small print.
Mainly because the map becomes a bit more abstract without the title, and the viewer is drawn to the detail a lot more
I've also coded the background of each chapter (vertical) to match the selection of compressed frames that are in it
And I made a few alterations to the path drawing algorithms for a smoother render

There are more subtle variations to try (colors/transparency etc) but I have the format I want now

Movie Character Data Visualisations

I've started working on some movie character data visualisations
Here's my first stab at

Star Wars, Episode IV - A New Hope

First set of analysis came by compressing the frames

1 fps of Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope compressed to fill the whole canvas

Then I started analising the character interaction and camp up with this...

Character interactions of Star Wars IV

I wanted to show 

• the main characters
• the scenes
• the locations of the movie scenes
• then added the frame compression above

Here's a set of closeups...

Showing entrances to the movie...

Exits or 'deaths'

Scene names vertically, locations horizontally

Compressed frames at the bottom