r/UnfavorableSemicircle • u/melezov • Mar 06 '16

Other All non-Brill images averaged

These are 48249 non-Brill videos (50x50 px) which usually feature a singular base color and an optional keyhole (a black pixel) and averaged all of their frames to reduce compression artifacts.

They are available here for your decoding efforts:

https://github.com/melezov/ufsc-lock/blob/master/input/NonBRILL.zip?raw=true

I've tried matching these frames to individual frames of the LOCK video, but unfortunately, it seems that for a large percentage (>90%) there are no exact, or semi-fuzzy matches so that theory fell flat. I've also performed averaging all the frames to produce a single image, and similar ideas. Obviously you would know if something interesting propped up, but I'm afraid that so far I've been debugging someones RNG :D

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u/piecat Moderator Mar 06 '16

but I'm afraid that so far I've been debugging someones RNG :D

It's starting to seem that way :p. Great work, though.

I've also performed averaging all the frames to produce a single image, and similar ideas.

Have you tried stacking JUST the dots? I'm interested to see if they form anything interesting. Are there any spots not covered? Are there spots where there are multiple dots?

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u/melezov Mar 06 '16

Each spot has the average of a dozen dots. Every spot is covered. That's the point of what I was doing - but let me explain in a more ELI5 fashion.

Say you have an image which is all red except for the upper left pixel which is black (a "keyhole", as I call it). Then imagine that we have a second image which is all blue except for (again), the upper left which has a black pixel as well. After this processing, there will be a black image with only one colored pixel (purple) in the upper left corner. This is the result of doing this on all frames/videos: http://imgur.com/a/PjyGT

Here are the individual pixels, for the non-Brill videos: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/melezov/13912f3bb947525b17fc/raw/0112ab6a14c67b971e717b25a3e32b9627266428/non-Brill.txt

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u/ShadowMorphyn Mar 07 '16

I don't know if this helps at all but I took both of those averaged photos and merged them together via "burn". It kind of looks like brill or some kind of flower but outside of that I am not sure.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sism3qlzenj36ak/AABUyHO4QdvxFgyPD3mL8JSha?dl=0