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It's my impression that it's common in western culture, where text is read left to right, and timelines are visualized as going from left to right, to also anim
by m12k 1mo ago
It's my impression that it's common in western culture, where text is read left to right, and timelines are visualized as going from left to right, to also animate things going from left to right, since westerners thus have an instinct that "right = forward", so it "feels right" (familiar). I wonder to which degree this is reflected in the training data? And if you'd be more likely to get left-facing pelicans if you prompted it in Hebrew, Arabic or another right-to-left language?
- jermaustin1 1mo agoYears ago, I lived in NYC, and my roommate was a director of photography for National Geographic, and various other nature documentaries. I loved photography (still do, but much less time for it as a late 30s adult than a mid 20s adult), and she was kind enough to answer any question I had regarding film/photo. She told me that "left to right" denoted progression in the story, "right to left" told the viewer the subject was "exiting" the current scene. She didn't go into the details of WHY, and I probably didn't probe deeper, but it stuck with me, and I notice it all the time in film and television.
- necovek 1mo agoAs a counterpoint, I did a quick image search on Kagi with "person on a bicycle", and I ended up with 12-left-pointed bicycles, only 3-right-pointed bicycles, 3 facing the camera, and 1 facing away from the camera — looking at photos above the fold (first screen). Even looking below, the pattern seems to continue, though not as prominently (I'd say 3:2 in favour of left-pointing bikes). Obviously, not scientific. All the left-pointing bicycles did not look weird to me either.
- pixl97 1mo agoForced side scrolling video games also almost always moved from left to right.