Average Movie Images

Inspired by this reddit thread, this script will take all images from a movie, grab each pixel RGB value, add them together then take the average and create a final image like this:

Requirements

• FFmpeg
• RMagick Gem

How-To

1. Generate frames from selected video using FFmpeg

   ffmpeg -i input_file.mp4 -r 1 -f image2 images/images_%20d.png

   Notes: -r 1 Generates 1 frame per second. Modify to your liking.

2. Run the script ruby images.rb

3. Grab a beer. It's going to be a while.

4. Check out your newly generated final.png.

Other Stuff

There's probably a better way to do all of this (like RMagick's average) but I wanted to give it a shot. Any help making this script better would be appreciated!