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Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time
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- s09dfhks 5y agoNeat
- etaioinshrdlu 5y agoHow did it just do full screen on iOS?
- karmelapple 5y agoA Quicktime movie plays
- nynx 5y agoHuh, I wonder how they did that.
- dylan604 5y agoJust shooting from the hip, but streaming videos are all done as short 1-5 second chunks that are all listed in a playlist. They could have specific versions of the hour:minute with a specific playlist that includes the correct segment. When you click, the time is checked and the correct playlist is sent down the wire. Edit: I opened up the dev tools, and did not see the typical HLS style segments. I saw several MP4 files intro/outro/etc. They could still have the segments ready to go, serve up the intro to buy time for the server to ```ffmpeg -i time.mp4 -c:v copy -c:a copy output.mp4``` type of thing before serving to you
- justinsaccount 5y agoNot that many chunks, looks like the entire video is re-generated. My browser fetched https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/high/a313bc8914fdc43883ef063a1eaf4ed0.mp4 https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/hi... which is for 1:54.
- space_ghost 5y agoI'd bet all the marbles that they're "JIT" rendering the full video upon request. Intro + hour chunk (12 options) + minute chunk (59 options, skipped if minute is 0?) + am-pm chunk (2 options) + Outro. If you open the page in two different browsers at the same time and chose the same pill color, the resulting video file URL is different; this suggests to me that they're not caching the compilation results for the next client.
- dylan604 5y agoI would have strong doubts that they are rendering them each time. I would put all my marbles that they have each one pre-rendered 1 time, and then paid Keanu to sit in a booth and count from 0 to 59
- jwally 5y agoHere's mine from 12:57 to confirm your hypothesis. https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/high/052fa202a41698ae2435f709491812e4.mp4 https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/hi...
- gubby 5y ago1440*2 different pre-rendered videos I assume.
- bassman9000 5y agoYou can't pause it, so could be.
- coding123 5y agoProbably recorded him saying 1 through 59 and o'clock and am or pm and then for looped it.
- bellyfullofbac 5y agoWell, 0 ("oh") to 13, the suffix "teen" and prefixes "twenty", "thirty", "forty", "fifty" are enough... There's a story about the lady who recorded Siri's voice, the engineers figured out what noises she had to make to cover all syllables. Considering Siri also speaks several languages...
- Laremere 5y agoSeems so, looking at network traffic, 11:10am https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/high/773e30ad4a4cf83d5df48331da7861fc.mp4 https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/hi... 11:12am https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/high/4c1ed511ba3306ab1bf44991fee1e6b7.mp4 https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/hi... Both videos are the full trailer, and still work after the minute is over.
- abdel_nasser 5y agoso they can bring back reeves but not fishburne? fishburne says they never even called him. imagine being fishburne and not even getting a text message and the matrix 4 is filming.
- dangus 5y agoSpeculation, but maybe it’s a “William Shatner wants to be in the new Star Trek reboot” situation where his presence made no sense in the context of the proposed story.
- leephillips 5y agoI predict he’ll wind up expelling a sigh of relief.
- aidenn0 5y agoNo Hugo Weaving either it looked like.
- yitchelle 5y agoHopefully, his character Agent Smith is still in?
- arthurcolle 5y agoI don't think so, Neil Patrick Harris might be playing an equivalent role it seems like. The old storyline is done, this is now the present or near future or so it seems. Kind of alluding to "you don't need super tactical Agents, you can just give them a pill and a nice Chardonn... er.. cellphone and distract people into oblivion."
- Apocryphon 5y agoThe progression of phone technology will be striking. By 1999 or 2003 standards the phones in the movies were cutting-edge chic. How would they do that to a future awash in branded touchscreen smartphones, I wonder.
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- hansjorg 5y agoIt's 07:45 PM? Oh, that's 19:45, cool. Kind of breaks the effect a bit for those of used to a 24 hour clock.
- UI_at_80x24 5y agoYeah I had the same reaction. A computer would never make that kind of mistake! Somebody yell at the Squid sysadmin to kick the locale again.
- Apocryphon 5y agoTrailer should've used epoch.
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- lelandbatey 5y agoFor folks who are having problems or are in a scenario where you can't see this (issue on mobile, text only browser, always reads the comments first, don't want to click on a thing that says "trailer"), here's what the link portrays: Overall, the page is an ad for the new Matrix movies, a teaser for some upcoming trailer. It's a white screen showing a red pill on the left and a blue pill on the right. You click on one of the pills and a video starts streaming with a voice over, a-la one of Morpheus' speeches from the original. As you see the green "matrix digital rain" falling, you'll hear the same voice over per-pill each time, with both indicating something along the lines of "are you sure about what you know?" and right after that opening voice line the video will show the current time (very seamlessly, so it seems like it's always been a part of the video) and the actor doing the voice-over says the time right then. In my case it was 10:59am when I played the video, so the overall effect was like this: "Are you sure you know what you know?" ( <- paraphrasing) Cut to large swooshing graphic of the numbers "10:59" as the voice actor says "ten fifty nine a.m." Then the rest of the teaser plays. No matter which you click on you get effectively the same thing, but with a different script and voice per pill color.
- sangnoir 5y agoThe audio tracks may be the same, but the video changes every minute. The videos contain (very) brief flashbacks to previous matrix movies as well as new footage - each scene gets less than a second, but the scenes shown change minute by minute.
- yitchelle 5y agoWho had the Matrix screen saver back in the day? I was in an open plan office at the time of about 30 desks. Every single one of the machines had this screen saver running.
- cblconfederate 5y agowhy not i mean it still looks cool
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- arthurcolle 5y agothere was 1 really good one that actually used characters instead of images (and those were all so terrible looking) that I've been searching for years (literally since 2005) - some motivated young child of Zion should use that notcurses lib posted yesterday and make a super high fidelity version. I've tried all the new ones and haven't found any that seem half-decent. Anyone know of any advancements in this sector?
- omoikane 5y agoI still have this: https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1189 https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1189
- yitchelle 5y agoNice that the instruction to exit is in the step-by-step.
- rezmason 5y agoDoes anyone mind if I peddle mine? Runs in the browser, lots of customizability: http://rezmason.github.io/matrix http://rezmason.github.io/matrix http://rezmason.github.io/matrix/?volumetric=true http://rezmason.github.io/matrix/?volumetric=true Forks, pull requests and feedback welcome! :) http://www.github.com/Rezmason/matrix http://www.github.com/Rezmason/matrix
- cblconfederate 5y agothis is barely interesting. It better be worth it or movies will be officially finished for me. feels like we re in a 20 year cultural swamp.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoIt's not just movies. There has been some interesting writing (none of which I've been able to find with google) about the ways in so many different aspects of western culture (and maybe more) have really gotten stuck for at least 30 years. Hair, fashion, cars, music, food, film, writing and more.
- jumelles 5y agoNo way, you can find all sorts of types of each of those things if you look past the mainstream.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoOh, the claim is not that there are all sort of types of each of these things. It's that there hasn't been: 1. anything new since sometime in the 1990s 2. any dominant form in any of them since the 1990s The usual angle is something like: consider hairstyles. Find pictures of popular hairstyles from the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s and so forth, and they will be highly correlated with the decade they were popular in. Now look at hairstyles from the 90s, the aughts, the tens: you will have no idea idea when the hairstyle was popular, because ... it wasn't. In fashion these days, "anything goes", and the same applies to all these other things. At least, that's the claim of this view. I'm not 100% certain I agree with it, but it does seem to contain a kernel of truth.
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- SketchySeaBeast 5y agoThat feels like a lot of pressure to put on the 4th film of an action franchise. Might it be possible you could look out of mainstream? There's innovation at the edges. I'm not sure what was better 20 years ago in terms of mainstream movies. The two biggest films of the year were book adaptions, the next two were CGI cartoons for kids, and the last of the top five was a remake of a movie from the 60s.
- 2Gkashmiri 5y agothis is kinda nice. you see guys, there is no need to look at the correct time and go and use "AI" to generate the speech and text in real time using the latest and greatest in tech. you can just as simply pre record all time 1 to 59 and then join them. much easier and i dare say, much more elegant
- prox 5y agoIt’s not a recording. Modern video editors/compositors can do batches with dynamic content. So someone had a list and just rendered all the segments out.
- robertlagrant 5y agoI don't understand how this is different to what the above person said.
- prox 5y agoThat’s how you know you are in the Matrix. Recursive looping sometimes happens besides our best effort to prevent it.
- DonCopal 5y agoIf you have enough space, that is. One trailer is around 13MB and there are 1440 of them so that is 18GB for all of them.
- worldmerge 5y agoR/GA owns a company, Imposium[1], that does dynamic video. Wonder it they did this. [1]- https://imposium.com/ https://imposium.com/ Their previous work: https://www.rga.com/work/case-studies/dupont-a-better-now https://www.rga.com/work/case-studies/dupont-a-better-now
- TYPE_FASTER 5y agoEach segment of the trailer is a different MP4. They are all hosted on the AWS CloudFront CDN. My guess is, like somebody stated, they pre-rendered many videos, and use a lambda at the edge to decode a GUID in the URL into a S3 path.
- echelon 5y agoThey probably used concatenative audio rendering since the digits are tractable to get the actor to record. (Probably just on the borderline in terms of effort for now.) But can you imagine when they are able to use real time text to speech with high fidelity? We're not far from emotive TTS + photo realistic rendering in a real time engine, potentially with neurally generated models to match real time events or camera input. Matrix 5 will be this, but you'll be in the trailer, and it'll reference real world events. And that's just the start. The future of audio and video is going to be crazy.
- jjoonathan 5y agoWhat does the state of the art look like? I'm not following closely enough to know, I only get an update when something leaks into the meme-o-sphere, like the recent "World Leaders singing Numa Numa:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8CKlTlQA64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8CKlTlQA64
- echelon 5y agoHere's my stupid text to speech website: https://vo.codes https://vo.codes And you can try the alpha of "version 2" by visiting this, which has improvements in synthesis and vocoder quality, and also lets people contribute: https://api.vo.codes/enable https://api.vo.codes/enable This is far from state of the art, but you can see at the other end of the spectrum that it's an easy toy that anybody can use. I'm working on a photo -> 3D rigged model system and model style transfer. You can follow me on Twitch or Twitter to see that when it's ready.
- jjoonathan 5y ago
- leephillips 5y agoWhy is this called Matrix 4 when there is only one Matrix movie?
- asadlionpk 5y agohaha indeed!
- yepthatsreality 5y agoDisagree, the trilogy is one of the best Sci-Fi trilogies available and utilizes ideas about people and computing in unique ways. I always heard that the sequels didn’t live up to the hype and avoided them during release. It was only later that I rented them and found out I was taking advice from lowest common denominator action movie fans. I only label those fans like that because their criticism only makes sense if you treat and view the films as blockbusters (which I think they’re pretty good at too).
- leephillips 5y agoI agree to the extent that the Architect in Matrix 2 [?] had some interesting things to say, and his explanation about why the machine needed humans almost redeemed the idiotic rationale of the first movie (electrical generators???). But, that and few other interesting ideas aside, I found them tedious and not well constructed.
- sixstringtheory 5y agoI read on here a long time ago that it wasn't just supposed to be humans as batteries, but as CPUs/algorithms (some good further discussion too, about the Architect): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12508832 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12508832 I thought I'd seen an earlier discussion on a mailing list or something but can't find it now. I remember coming up with an idea, which I thought was original, of us being in a simulation where all our life choices are just training an AI advertising engine that then targets "real" humans, and then later came across this revelation about The Matrix, and of course it'd already been thought of.
- abdel_nasser 5y agopeople on reddit have noticed that different clips are played each time you view either pill. ive clicked the pills maybe 20 times so far and theres at least one new clip each time. it looks like they pre-rendered for each time and spread out a ton of clips across all those times. so the computers that are serving this just have a ton of videos and change which ones they are giving out once per minute, compensating for time-zones. pretty simple. but a great result. i feel like this is the most compelling advertising ive seen in my adult life. i think its interesting that they chose the pre-rendered approach to this. pre-rendered and FMV is a very interesting space right now. there seems to be a revival stirring. take for example "at dead of night." its a horror game thats pre-rendered and uses FMV and does it perfectly to stunning effect. people liked it, markipliers lets play got something like 7M views IIRC. and the previous game by that same person was a full FMV murder mystery game and it is very compelling indeed. nobody has seen these concepts fleshed out in the modern world where storage is dirt cheap and video games are taken seriously. new life is going to be breathed into these concepts and i think it will be very exciting.
- hirundo 5y agoI'm reading here various conspiracy theories about how the current time was inserted by one technical trick or another. We should at least consider the possibility that this was simply a preview of the matrix we all live in, and to prepare us for waking up in a vat of mucus.
- EGreg 5y agoActually, that world was also a simulation. The machines realized that some people wouldn’t accept the program that their primitive brains kept trying to wake up from. So they made an imperfect world but some people still wanted to wake up. Thus, they made a “real world” where people thought they had woken up, but where a blind neo was able to still able to sense the machines. What if you’re never really sure you exited the simulation? LOL When you’re dreaming, you often think you’re awake. But when you’re awake, you KNOW it. How?
- josephcsible 5y ago> When you’re dreaming, you often think you’re awake. Is this the case, or is it just that when you're dreaming, you don't usually think to ask yourself whether you're dreaming or awake? (And when you do, you either become lucid or wake up?)
- AfterShave 5y agoI spent some time trying to have lucid dreams. I distinctly remember times where the question didn't result in either. But instead a suspicious half lucid state. Where you are a lot more aware that something is wrong. But not quite sure you are actually dreaming. One of the simplest methods was to look for a clock. Look away, and see if it changes. The realization of "hmm, I should find a clock" making them appear on every street light and building. Wasn't always the obvious indication of a dream it might sound like. Instead leading to a very confused dream wondering if reality always looked that way.
- joshspankit 5y agoThere was something in the Animatrix that still haunts me after having watched it when it came out (right after the first Matrix). There is a scene where humans have jacked in to a machine using cables and there is some conversation which leads to the line “To a machine, every input is artificial.” There’s nothing stopping more layers of simulations outside the ones we’ve seen already. (Except, of course: lack of mass market appeal)
- xvector 5y agoIs it just me or does this feel kind of hamfisted? I think it would be a cool side detail to have (i.e. an analogue or digital clock shown somewhere in the trailer with the time), but it was kind of jarring and out of place to loudly hear the current time.
- saltyfamiliar 5y agoI felt the same way. The way the narrator's line is obviously spliced together just detracts from the rest of the trailer for the sake of a party trick. I really hope this doesn't turn out to foreshadow the movie as a whole.
- mike_d 5y agoSometimes you build something and realize the effect is too subtle. It has to seem a bit forced to get your brain to go "hey!" and then look at your clock.
- xvector 5y agoI suppose - I personally would love the subtle, artsy approach of having it as a 'hidden' detail, but yeah, it wouldn't be as 'cool' I guess.
- mdoms 5y agoThis is about the least clever way you could possibly imagine to use the time of day in a trailer.
- rspeele 5y agoIt had almost as much finesse and imagination as "HOT SINGLES IN $YOUR_AREA".
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- crateless 5y agoI just found out that there is a new Matrix movie and I am honestly a little bit horrified. I have zero confidence that the downhill progression in movie quality will somehow be turned around given the current state of Hollywood.
- Apocryphon 5y agoThis is the sequel that broke the camel's back for you and not all of the other sequels, prequels, sidequels, spin-offs, reboots, remakes, retcons, and reimaginings that Hollywood has been indulging in since it was founded?
- padobson 5y agoLet's move past the fact that he came to the party late and celebrate the fact that he showed up at all. Relevant: https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- Apocryphon 5y agoAlso relevant: https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2001/08/28 https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2001/08/28
- crateless 5y agoEveryone has their pet film and it so happens that the first Matrix movie is mine. Anyway, I stopped watching movies over a decade ago and i can't pinpoint the precise straw that did the trick. Maybe it was the million other straws underneath it.
- f1refly 5y agoNot only the state of Hollywood but also the Wachowskies who should not be given money anymore as they have proven again and again.
- gregsadetsky 5y agoAs many have figured out, these are pre-generated mp4 files. There's no 'magic' in the video files themselves (i.e. the video is not generated on the fly) In https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/_nuxt/commons/app.js https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/_nuxt/commons/a... The client side generates an unobfuscated string such as: red-a-b1-c1435-d-e2-f-g3-h2-i where 1435 is the current local time (search for `key: "teaserSrcProps"` in the code to find the relevant function) Then "17" is prepended to that string ("BOND_OBFUSCATION_SALT" in the source code), and then the video file name is simply the MD5 of the string. To find the video URL: // change 1435 for any HHMM time timeStr = "red-a-b1-c1435-d-e2-f-g3-h2-i" videoFile = MD5("17" + timeStr) + ".mp4" url = "https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/high/" + videoFile :-) --- All 1440 red pill video URLs (tested all of them in bulk without downloading any using `wget --spider -i allurls.txt` — spider is a cool option!): https://gist.github.com/gregsadetsky/cb4754d123f0ea1eae26820d5aefdde1 https://gist.github.com/gregsadetsky/cb4754d123f0ea1eae26820...
- sva_ 5y agoSadly my timezone wasn't set up correctly, apparently (I'll have to mess with hwclock, I guess.) Still a cool little teaser!
- higgins 5y agoHmm...each of these videos is rendering the same clips for me. The web player will render new ones though.
- gregsadetsky 5y agoThe clips are pretty much the same, except for when the time appears on the screen, which happens somewhere in the middle of the videos, no?
- higgins 5y agoAt least for me, for each of the videos in that gist the only difference between them was the timestamp at the beginning of the video. All the movie clips were the same. :/
- laulis 5y agoFound a teaser (possibly testing one?) with WB Marketing watermarks: https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/_nuxt/videos/qualities/7000k/blue-a-b3-c0000-d-e3-f-g3-h3-i.mp4?fb8175c501d69c240c592fd3bb2664b5 https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/_nuxt/videos/qu...
- gregsadetsky 5y agoGood find! Unfortunately, the file has since disappeared..! Did you download it by any chance?
- egberts1 5y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20210907191313/https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/_nuxt/videos/qualities/7000k/blue-a-b3-c0000-d-e3-f-g3-h3-i.mp4?fb8175c501d69c240c592fd3bb2664b5 https://web.archive.org/web/20210907191313/https://thechoice...
- gregsadetsky 5y agoWow, good one. Thank you! Few interesting things about that file: - that video has a higher bitrate -- ffprobe shows 4338 kb/s, which is probably an average value. One of the "regular" MD5-named videos I tried has 2256 kb/s as its bitrate - the resolution of the file is the same as the regular MD5-encoded filename videos i.e. 1080p - as the https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28448361 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28448361 comment mentions, it does have WB watermarks - the Internet Archive grabbed 4 similarly non-MD5-named videos in total: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/_nuxt/videos/qualities/ https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://thechoiceisyours.whati... (I can't link to the list of files directly because the asterisk in the URL breaks HN formatting -- follow the "Click here to search for all archived pages under" link) - The 7000k/12000k values in those URLs do correspond to bitrate. The 12000k video (downloadable from the archive.org link above) has an average bitrate of 6131 kb/s. It also has watermarks.
- motohagiography 5y agoPerhaps a bit meta, but between a new Matrix reboot, this weekend's Rick & Morty finale, and previously even Midnight Gospel among quite a number of other cultural themes about meaning, reality, good & evil, nihilism, I'm feeling a little metaversed out and wondering whether this kind of entertainment is a healthy thing to indulge in. The idea that it is good to be unmoored from our senses and experiences in favour of filtering them through this flavour of intellectual dissociation seems unhealthy. When I think of the artists behind it, if you are invested in someone's happiness, "red-pilling" them is not generous or sharing, it's self interested and adding company to misery, and I am doubting that this is art by people actuated by the wellbeing of others.
- Apocryphon 5y agoDon't forget Loki, or WandaVision for that matter. I think there's been both qualitative and quantitative changes to American pop culture. Today's audience is able to handle more sophisticated or just convoluted complex narrative structures than in the past. From comic book cinematic universes to Christopher Nolan's gimmicks, we've come along way from straightforward standalone popcorn films. Now even dumb action movies have to be not just a sequel but intertextual, living within a cohesive fictional space. Everyone knows what "canon" refers to and most know common tropes. (Speaking of R&M, that show seems to be an example of running out of tropes to the extent of burning itself out, imploding into bigger and more meaningless reveals.) That's also because of quantity. We've simply got too much content, across both films but TV shows, games, tie-in novels, comic books, and other media. Merchandising has been huge since the original Star Wars, but now every franchise has a Wiki and dedicated scholars. It's a whole new level of meta. Maybe that's the only way we can handle the scale of content we are bombarded by; to try to fit them together into cohesive contexts. I don't know what that means for us as a society or as a culture, but I do note that The Matrix, or at least its sequels, helped to accelerate this process. Back in 2003, the series had both the Animatrix animated shorts and the Enter the Matrix video game that added to the story depicted on-screen, even introducing key characters that movie-only viewers would be confused by (such as the Kid). I would say that dense intertextuality and cross-media world-building, not so much the Gnostic question your reality themes (which are old hat now), is the current defining legacy of The Matrix.
- 3r8Oltr0ziouVDM 5y agoDoesn't work for me because my time zone is spoofed :)
- cblconfederate 5y agoYou believe you are special, that somehow the rules do not apply to you
- AUSNA-ZI 5y agoWhen I change the position of the video, it resets and brings me back to the pills (RWD or FF)
- ranguna 5y agoProbably to prevent changing the position to when the time is displayed before it should. I started the video very close to 9:02 but was still 9:01, when the time was displayed on the video, it was actually 9:02, so I'm guessing they don't displayed the time of when the video started, but instead they display the exact time it should be when the time is displayed. If you could change the position, this would break the affect, I can't pause either.
- agmm 5y agoI just created a little tool to aid in the reverse engineering of the system that generates the URLs for each custom video segment. The filenames of each video are the result of hashing an "options" string plus a pepper value; this tool takes care of the hashing. Tool: https://agmm.xyz/matrix https://agmm.xyz/matrix
- shapefrog 5y agoI am wondering why it thinks it is 8:24am when my computer says it is 9:24am ... Google is able to detect my time, why cant the matrix?
- me_me_me 5y agoIts a ploy of matrix to keep you convinced it doesnt exist.
- shapefrog 5y agoThat matrix is a sly one, I guess it was the real redpill answer. Made me seriously doubt the nature of reality, time and space. I was genuinely curious as to which time field it was picking up in my browser - I suspect it is ignoring daylight savings time offset? Got downvotes instead so wtf would I know!
- quickthrower2 5y agoDoes it use the click on the pill as intent to then maximise the video (iOS safari experience)
- Eriks 5y agoNice code word/project name for this site wb-ice-cream-site :)
- gil0mendes 5y agoI just created a straightforward node script to generate the video URL given the time and the pill color. There are a lot of more variations than these, but is enough for what it is https://gist.github.com/gil0mendes/398550cba7c96cb291b76cc416b32504 https://gist.github.com/gil0mendes/398550cba7c96cb291b76cc41...
- lazlee 5y agoHuge Matrix fan but ... gah ... this is not something I want. Spin offs, sure, but another Neo story? Nope. Don't care. (Not to mention the simple fact that neither Wachowski has made anything good since the first Matrix.)