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This episode of Bluey is called colours

Bluey is Australia’s favourite animation, beloved by kids and adults alike. In addition to the adorable characters and the imaginative plots, the show is a love-letter to the distinctive Brisbane suburban aesthetic. We made this visualisation to show what colours can reveal from each 7-minute long episode. We hope this visualisation can help you appreciate Studio Ludo’s thinking and the craft that has gone into making Bluey, and enjoy the show even more!

Data Visualisation

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June 2020

How we did it

  • - One sample frame captured every 7-10 seconds using OpenCV
  • - Colours in each frame were quantised into 32 groups using K-means clustering
  • - The centres of the colour clusters were identified, sorted by hue, and together they become a palette for the frame
  • - The number of pixels from each cluster were counted and represented proportionally as height.

Want more Bluey? You can watch it on ABC iView (if you're in Australia) or Disney+ (elsewhere in the world).

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