Photo Matrices
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As far as photography projects go, most of them concentrate on creating the photographs, not on the presentation. A while ago, I created a Photo Matrix, as a PHP programming project: Will arbitrarily chosen photos create stories if they are connected in one way, and will the stories changed if the context changes?
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Hi,
I’m intrigued by the matrix and have been in it a little while now….
So what are the chances of the same picture appearing twice in the same 9 ??! If it is as random as you say, then pretty unlikely I’d guess! I have a screen capture of it of you would like it.
Rgds,
Andrew Ashby
Had 2 matching images pop up in 3 consecutive matricies, what are the chances of that?!
This is an interesting idea would it be possible to do something like this in flash to pull random images from a directory. or is it standard php/html?
Very much interested in this as a front page for my website.
long answer:
there’s 200 pictures in all, and a 70% chance that a frame is filled by one, right? 200 is 70% of 286, so let’s simplify that and pretend all nine frames are filled and there are 286 images to choose from.
so let’s see: there’s a particular picture in the first frame, and for each of the subsequent 8 frames, there’s a 1 in 286 chance that the same one was chosen again. that’s 8/286. but there’s also a particular picture in the second frame, and for each of the subsequent 7 frames, theres a 1 in 286 chance that the same one was chose again. that’s 7/286, in addition to what we had before. (we can simply add the chances as these events can occur independently of each other). keep that thinking through down to the last two frames being the same, and in the end you get (8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1)/286, or ((8 + 1) * 8)/(286 * 2), which should compute to something like 1/10. so you can expect to get at least one of the images twice in every 10th matrix.
short answer:
no, it’s not pretty unlikely. your screen capture is not worth its weight in gold.
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