• petrol_sniff_king
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    14 hours ago

    That’d be nice.

    90 and 120 are rolling through the greens. Are posters mostly green? That seems odd to me.

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      13 hours ago

      The problem is that averaging hue makes no sense at all because hue is not a longest scale.

      If you take a red poster (0) and a blue poster (240), it averages to green. Or take red (0) and red (359), averaging to cyan (180).

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        28 minutes ago

        It would have made more sense if they had shown the distribution of hue as a polar graph and just had one every decade to show how it changes over time.

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          30 minutes ago

          I wouldn’t trust someone who tried to visualize hue like this to make that calculation correctly.

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            9 hours ago

            Not if there is a clear trend. If most movie posters are blue, three average will be blue.

            But i agree, it is useless if there is no clear trend.