How to make a color palette from an image ordered by frequence

[Kevin]

I’ve done something similar in the past by using k-means to cluster the colors. Some posts that you might find interesting:

Comic Book Colors

I recently put together a visualization that takes the first 100 pages of various comic books and shows the colors used by them. For example here is Saga: [image] And here is Pretty Deadly: [image] It’s really interesting to compare how different artists use colors, and how colors plays a role in the stories told by comic books. I used a combination of Processing and P5.js to put the visualization together. Here is a discussion on the process, and here is the code I used.

Movie Color Visualization

Inspired by my comic book colors project, I just put together a few visualizations of the colors used by various movies: So far I’ve played around with two different visualizations. The first one shows a movie as a timeline of the colors used in each frame. For example here is Finding Nemo: [Finding Nemo color timeline] The other visualization creates a multiple exposure by combining every frame of a movie into a single image. Here’s Finding Nemo again: [Finding Nemo multiple exposure] A…