• shneancy@lemmy.world
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      14 hours 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

      • bob_lemon@feddit.org
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        19 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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          7 hours 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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            7 hours ago

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

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              16 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.