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Has the developer of this posted any blog or documentation of how it works? What hardware/software is used for it?

by yonatan8070 3y ago

gnarbarian 3y ago
probably a webcam
- zuppy 3y ago
  i presume you're on mobile and it's not visible there. on desktop you can hover any section and you will see the picture that is used as the source.
  - hgsgm 3y ago
    Tap on mobile
  - jonas-w 3y ago
    On mobile (i use firefox an android) you can tap on the sections
83 3y ago
The first two night photos have logos for EarthCam, Live, and some location data. Seems they found a way to remove those in later images.
- william- 3y ago
  It appears that the camera provider was switched around 1 day ago [0]. [0] https://twitter.com/mikebodge/status/1666541169273372672 https://twitter.com/mikebodge/status/1666541169273372672
imadj 3y ago
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. Mike Bodge's personal website:https://bod.ge/ https://bod.ge/ Recent tweet by author: https://twitter.com/mikebodge/status/1666507978663690240 https://twitter.com/mikebodge/status/1666507978663690240 Here's also a submission from a decade ago (2011): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2685621 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2685621 Shameless plug: Assisted by my HNRelevant browser extension [1] https://www.villagevoice.com/2011/06/23/mike-bodge-nskyc-creator-talks-new-york-city-weather-food-and-crushes/ https://www.villagevoice.com/2011/06/23/mike-bodge-nskyc-cre...
- tantalor 3y ago
  Average how? In RBG? HSL? LAB? Average raw RGB gives you bad results.
  - imadj 3y ago
    Well, I'm afraid I can't help you with that If you're enthusiastic about the project, maybe consider DMing the author on Twitter to discuss it with him

Has the developer of this posted any blog or documentation of how it works? What hardware/software is used for it?

gnarbarian 3y ago

probably a webcam

zuppy 3y ago
i presume you're on mobile and it's not visible there. on desktop you can hover any section and you will see the picture that is used as the source.
- hgsgm 3y ago
  Tap on mobile
- jonas-w 3y ago
  On mobile (i use firefox an android) you can tap on the sections

83 3y ago

The first two night photos have logos for EarthCam, Live, and some location data. Seems they found a way to remove those in later images.

william- 3y ago
It appears that the camera provider was switched around 1 day ago [0]. [0] https://twitter.com/mikebodge/status/1666541169273372672 https://twitter.com/mikebodge/status/1666541169273372672

imadj 3y ago

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. Mike Bodge's personal website:https://bod.ge/ https://bod.ge/ Recent tweet by author: https://twitter.com/mikebodge/status/1666507978663690240 https://twitter.com/mikebodge/status/1666507978663690240 Here's also a submission from a decade ago (2011): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2685621 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2685621 Shameless plug: Assisted by my HNRelevant browser extension [1] https://www.villagevoice.com/2011/06/23/mike-bodge-nskyc-creator-talks-new-york-city-weather-food-and-crushes/ https://www.villagevoice.com/2011/06/23/mike-bodge-nskyc-cre...

tantalor 3y ago
Average how? In RBG? HSL? LAB? Average raw RGB gives you bad results.
- imadj 3y ago
  Well, I'm afraid I can't help you with that If you're enthusiastic about the project, maybe consider DMing the author on Twitter to discuss it with him