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mii1337 t1_iwyb2tc wrote

Using purple and red and blue might not have been the best choice. It makes it all seem kinda purple as the bars are very slim and morph together a bit.

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aminervia t1_iwyc8v4 wrote

The red works for anger and blue works for sadness, but the purple doesn't really work for fear. Because of the red and blue it definitely makes the purple look more prevalent

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Oscar_Cunningham t1_iwygnqu wrote

The colour yellow is associated with cowardice. So you could use that for fear, leaving green for joy.

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aminervia t1_iwygv7a wrote

Sections with lots of fear and sadness would then appear green though, we'd have the same problem

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Oscar_Cunningham t1_iwyhhv7 wrote

It depends what colour mixing model you use. With paint it's true that yellow and blue mix to make green, but with light they instead make white (and your problem would instead be red and green mixing to make yellow). I was thinking of the Natural Color System in which red and green are opposed and yellow and blue are opposed.

I suppose the other solution would be to use lightness as well as hue. For example each mixture of the four emotions would correspond to a mixture of red, green, blue and white.

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Campbell_MG OP t1_iwyi01q wrote

This is exactly how it works. Each emotion is layered on top of one another with the opacity driven by the likelihood of the emotion from the ML model.

I tried a few different colours but this ended up being the most distinct I could find.

While red and blue mixed won't be helping, the model definitely seems to lean towards fear. If you look at the raw numbers fear seems to show up the most.

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luke_in_the_sky t1_iwyu9fs wrote

Well, it's weird because sadness+anger layered on top of one another will appear as fear.

Maybe, instead of bars, you could use a grid with colored squares and a good resolution, so they don't get mixed.

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mez1642 t1_iwyz8rh wrote

And opaqueness could indicate intensity. Each grid could be a page, but always scaled to a fixed maximum with so the barcodes are always 2 inches wide by 1 inch tall at 300 dpi (or insert your dimensions here)

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legbreaker t1_iwz0lhe wrote

How about using black for fear and white for neutral pages. Breaks the colors up

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viridiformica t1_iwz408d wrote

Doesn't that mean that whichever layer is added last will dominate?

I'd quite like to see this as a stream graph, maybe using a rolling average. Is the data available somewhere?

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TheThiefMaster t1_iwypv5q wrote

For what it's worth - it's two different blues!

The positive primary (light) is "royal blue", and the negative primary (paint, ink) is "sky" blue.

Children's paint sets regularly get this wrong...

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Lightning_Lance t1_ix2u5qz wrote

Modern paints use magenta for "red" and Cyan for "blue". So it's literally just inverted RGB, using the secondary colors instead of the primary (of course, language is malleable and so they just call those the primary colors in paint... But it's the secondary colors of RGB).

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Oscar_Cunningham t1_iwytz9p wrote

To me that mixture does look almost grey. But changing the exact choice of yellow and blue will change exactly what mixture they make. In any case it's much closer to grey than a 'primary' green would be.

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According-Bad8745 t1_iwyt7ih wrote

nah to me yellow is joy and fear is green. just like english is red, math is blue and science is green 😆

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printergumlight t1_iwymxmm wrote

Black for fear would solve all the color mixing issues I think. Stands out well on its own.

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ArsenalAM t1_iwypofx wrote

Or lighter filter (you could represent it with white I guess) for joy, and darker (grey or black) for fear? Not really an opacity filter but maybe a gradient filter? I’m not sure what to cal it really.

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supersayanssj3 t1_iwz24ap wrote

Kinda confused why noone has suggested something obvious like black for fear. Would contrast to all the others and give clear separation between colors.

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541mya t1_ix1fbtt wrote

Yeah I was looking at the bars and thinking.... I don't remember Peter Pan being such a fearful movie.

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sanpunkanmatteyaru t1_iwye8wh wrote

They're the Inside Out colors

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ScuttleCrab729 t1_iwyh9ri wrote

Where’s disgust [green]

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plg94 t1_iwyqbob wrote

There's a lot of green and orange and light blue in the second film, but not in the label.

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Campbell_MG OP t1_iwyhqio wrote

Yep, keen eye

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detecting_nuttiness t1_iwz3jgq wrote

You should redo this with different colors! I'd love to interpret it but it's just not possible with these color choices.

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300kIQ t1_iwyd8sq wrote

Indeed, black for fear would have been much better

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nifty_fifty_two t1_iwyu866 wrote

Black for sadness. Blue for fear. Red for anger. Green for joy. White for any emotion I've forgotten.

Most digital displays work on RGB, so that'd be the best way to display the data on digital screens.

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breddit1945 t1_iwz4h8y wrote

Also, if this is done by each implication of emotion, that is far too much data in my opinion. Do it by chapter and if that’s too few data points, do every 0.5 or 0.25 chapter. That, or pick something other than emotional points. A fun example might be: deaths in A Song of Ice and Fire, or switching of character perspectives/setting/scene in a different book or series, or frequency of a particular word/phrase.

Part of the charm of the movie poster one is that you could possibly distinguish the film without a title. Take away the titles here and I’d have no clue what I’m looking at.

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biaimakaa t1_iwz8gwh wrote

As a slightly colorblind person who have a hard time differentiate blue and purple and sees red as just not popping like it would to anybody, this is horrendous.

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