Netflix Top 50 Covers by Genre (Averaged & Normalized)

In my (apparently) never-ending quest to average all the things, I happened to be surfing around Netflix the other evening looking for something to watch. Then a little light bulb went off!

My previous averaging work:

Mean Averaging Music Videos [G'MIC/Blender]
Mean Averaging Music Videos [Imagemagick/GIMP]
ImageMagick Average Blending Files
More Averaging Photos (Martin Schoeller)
Mr. Presidents
The $30,429,899 Photograph

I had previously blended many different variations of movie posters with varying success, but figured it might be interesting to see mean blends based on Netflix genres (and suggestions for me to watch). So, here are my results across a few different genres:

I found a couple of surprising and interesting things in these results...

The $30,429,899 Photograph

So, here is a view of the most expensive image ever (that doesn't really exist - except for now because I made it):

The $30,429,899 Photograph by Pat David

This is an amalgam of 16 (out of 18) of the most expensive photographs ever sold, all at once (based on the list at Wikipedia).

I averaged all of the images in Imagemagick, and brought them into GIMP for some level adjustments and minor processing.

Mr. Presidents

I've been pretty busy lately, and haven't had a chance to post anything, but that doesn't mean I haven't been fooling around when I can! Here's a finished blended amalgam from the other night:

Mr. Presidents by Pat David (cc-by-nc-sa)

This is every one of the U.S. Presidential portraits (except one) all blended in Imagemagick. Once using an average, and a second one using median blending. I brought these into GIMP and overlayed the median blend at 50% opacity.

G'MIC Image Averaging Made (Relatively) Easy

I hesitate to mention G'MIC in a title sometimes because I feel that whatever I write is not going to do it justice. For this post, I couldn't resist.

I really should have posted this a while ago when I first saw it, but to be honest it slipped under my radar. So I'm trying to catch up and make amends.

+David Tschumperlé was kind enough to post today a link to some incredible work done by Jérome Ferrari with more averaging images. (It is seriously incredible).

A neat result using -compose-edges in G'MIC

This time everything was done entirely in G'MIC. The images are aligned on the eyes automatically using a little cropping and phase correlation, then scaled to fit both eyes. The results are fantastic.

They are also way faster than doing it my way (aligning eyes and scaling to fit by hand in GIMP).

Head on over and check it out:

Averaging face photos : eye alignment

Also, be sure to check the follow up where there are some slight distortions applied to align the mouths as well.