Game Barcode: A Study of Colours in Games

This tutorial shows how to download videos from YouTube and to process their frames with Python; I have used this technique to create game barcode, an image created by sorting the colours in each frame of a particular video. You can see some of most intriguing here:

This tutorial is divided in four parts:

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How to retrieve all the images from a website

Few weeks ago I posted on Twitter few rather bizarre screenshots. A composition of all the submissions for #ScreenshotSaturday, loosely ordered by colour. In this series of posts I’ll briefly explain how I did that using Python.

You can download the original pictures (16Mb, 71Mb, 40Mb, 13Mb) here.

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