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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I'd be nice to have a color legend next to the y-axis of hue

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago

Or even better, change the color of the points and lines to match the associated hue.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

yeah that part of the graph is completely useless to people who haven't memorised the exact degrees of the scale, which is most people, even most artists

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That'd be nice.

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The average of 0° and 359° is obviously 359.5°.

it's a radial scale.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

By that logic, the average of red and cyan is both purple and lime. Still useless.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

You know what, I completely agree.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Be nice to have the y axis start at zero so we could get a realistic sense of the fluctuations.

Yes yes this is pedantic for a chart about movie posters, but we’re all pretty desensitised to disinformation; feels useful to train myself to recognise it & speak out about it. The y axis isn’t visible, so the chart is misleading 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The values changed so little compared to the full spectrum it wouldn't make sense.
You're not comparing to zero, but relative to values over time.
I agree with how it's presented.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Zooming out a little would at least show that the changes are minor.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd love to see this for luminance. I know my vision is getting worse, but I cannot see the goddamn Batman or anything else made in the last five years

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Value is essentially luminance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

is this loss?