Cinemetrics creates a visual fingerprint for movies by Nathan Yau.
From the post:
Each film is broken into segments, where each segment represents ten shots. Color changes with each movie and with each ten-shot chapter. And then the segments are set in motion based on the amount of movement in that chapter so that action sequences show rapid pulsations. For example, the first circle in the top left is Alien, whereas the last one in the second row is The Simpsons.
Frederic Brodbeck’s bachelor graduation project at the Royal Academy of Arts (KABK), Den Haag.
You really have to go to Frederic’s page and scroll to the bottom to see his “book” about the project. Particularly if you think you can read fast. 😉
I like the visualization but I am less convinced that animating the visualization adds anything to it. That may be because I am more accustomed to visualizations that sit still and allow me to study them.