[HN Gopher] Chronophoto
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Chronophoto
Author : jmduke
Score : 331 points
Date : 2023-01-28 18:05 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.chronophoto.app)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.chronophoto.app)
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| tobr wrote:
| Simple and fun game. I just wish the score was more forgiving the
| older the photo was. It's a lot harder to tell 1905 and 1910
| apart than 2015 and 2020, from the perspective of 2023.
| charles_f wrote:
| Interesting, unless there was a major clue, I've had as much
| pain in both cases.
| klabb3 wrote:
| It's incredible to see how quickly things changed ~1910-1930 in
| terms of infrastructure and technology. You're going from horses
| and cobblestone to almost modern cars and pavement, within just
| 20 years or so.
| stjo wrote:
| Same thing with smartphones. If the photos is of a crowd, it is
| immediately obvious if it is after 2012 by the fact that
| everybody is watching their hands.
| hammock wrote:
| Awesome.
|
| The first photo I got was some guy in a cartoonish space suit
| talking with a kid at a festival. I guessed 1966 and got it on
| the nose. That heartened me.
|
| After 3 rounds my high score was 3154
| valdect wrote:
| Nice to see an unique game!
| fideli0 wrote:
| That's fun :-) What's the source of the photos?
| dbosch wrote:
| Great game ! Thanks for sharing.
|
| Small suggestion: it would be great to get some information about
| the picture (location, context, people) in addition to the year,
| after we tried to guess the date.
| softfalcon wrote:
| Wow... for the first time in my life, knowing intricate
| information about film development colouring paid off
| swyx wrote:
| do geoguessr style livestreaming but for old photos and talk
| thru your process, people will love it
| amelius wrote:
| People still use old film sometimes ...
| NikolaNovak wrote:
| It's tricky. I got one that was full bright standard colour...
| from 1912. Normal contrast and hue and saturation, no noise. I
| assume recoloured later?
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| There are bw photos from 70s and colour photos from 50s.
| Contrast and noise and hue can give clues, but nothing stops a
| photographer from using old film in new times. I ended up going
| for cars and styles more when possible.
| softfalcon wrote:
| Fair point! Maybe I just got lucky and my 5 or so photos were
| all time accurate to their development methods!
| OtherwiseBenign wrote:
| A bit like the car meta in Geoguessr
| cinntaile wrote:
| The slider was incredibly frustrating to use on (Android) mobile.
| The game itself was fun though.
| graypegg wrote:
| This is really fun! Never really thought about how nice some very
| old film photos can look, took me by surprise on a few ones!
| swalling wrote:
| Addictively fun. I'd love to see a leaderboard for this or at
| least what the score distribution is.
| jeremyis wrote:
| 3244! The first photo was hard because it was recent but had an
| old car in it.
| fceruti wrote:
| I feel proud and eager to share my 3150 score point.
|
| PS: No such sharable gold nugget was presented.
| rukuu001 wrote:
| Lol I took a screenshot. Endorphin hit from getting 2 in a row
| exactly right was ridiculous
| fceruti wrote:
| that's the good stuff
| Matheus28 wrote:
| I love this. The summary at the end could be a bit more compact.
| Scrolling all the way to the bottom to start a new page is a bit
| inconvenient.
|
| Maybe full points for scoring within 5 years? Some photos are
| very hard to place in an exact year.
| vagabund wrote:
| Very fun, almost wish there were less overt cultural clues
| though. I got 3912 on the first go but it was mostly because I
| recognized Bowie and Le Corbusier, and got a theater marquee with
| Happy Gilmore playing.
|
| I enjoyed the pics where you needed to analyze hair/clothing
| styles and car models more.
| paxys wrote:
| Love it! I got some terrible scores but then realized a good
| strategy is to judge a photo by its quality and aesthetics rather
| than the content.
| atoav wrote:
| Except when you don't do it. My first (and best) guess was one
| year off, because I guessed based on a specific war with a
| specific way of building trenches.
| kowlo wrote:
| It said Clinton Shaking Kennedy's hand was 1962... thought it was
| 63
| kristopolous wrote:
| Well it certainly wasn't 1964
| kortilla wrote:
| Definitely no later than 65
| ddejohn wrote:
| Absolutely love these types of games. Geoguessr is another
| classic.
|
| EDIT: oof, just got the Columbine High School class photo.
| srcnkcl wrote:
| This is a AI training job gamified isnt it?
| NKosmatos wrote:
| Very nice game, fast site, nice photos and likes the overall feel
| of it, well done!
| dinkleberg wrote:
| This is a fun little game. It is interesting to see what the
| tells are for the time periods. The reliable ones for me so far
| are military uniforms, cars, and computers. Hairstyles and
| clothes for some time periods are a give away, but some of those
| have thrown me off too.
| ghayes wrote:
| Helped for me that I am in one of the photos (NHL game played
| at Lake Tahoe during the pandemic).
| dinkleberg wrote:
| That is fantastic. Gotta wonder what the chance of that is.
| nickdothutton wrote:
| 3 rounds and 3502. Well done to the creator!
| photoGrant wrote:
| This was ridiculously fun for me!
|
| I got 2827 as a score which isn't that great, but I nailed the
| year perfectly on 2/5. Super interesting!
| BHSPitMonkey wrote:
| Also nailed 2 out of 5, but managed a 4154 on my first go :D
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| It's interesting to think about the epochal details our minds
| use to produce these guesses. Technology like the
| cars/cameras/phones present (or missing), the fashion styles on
| the people, the quality/sharpness of the image overall, face
| masks in post-2019 photos, etc.
| wazzer wrote:
| Nice, I always thought I'm pretty good in guessing the production
| years of movies, photos, and music, so this game is a lot of fun
| for me.
|
| My first try gave me a score of 4125. I'm curious if I can
| replicate that result or if I just got lucky!
|
| Edit: Nope... second try: 2728
|
| Edit: 3rd round: 3823
| XCSme wrote:
| I love how there are no instructions, and yet it's pretty obvious
| what the goal is and how to achieve it, good UX.
| chairmanwow1 wrote:
| Fun game! Wish the UI would stay static when going between
| rounds. The scroll down was jarring.
| orlp wrote:
| This is very similar to Wikitrivia:
| https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/ , which asks you to place
| general historical concepts/events on a timeline.
| dougdonohoe wrote:
| Reminds me of the Timeline (I think this is the name) card game
| where every player has a bunch of cards, each of which represents
| a historical event (e.g., moon landing, or sinking of Titanic,
| discovery of Radium, etc. Each player has to put down the card in
| the proper order, with respect to previous cards played. It gets
| harder as more cards are "on the timeline". Fun game.
| RicoElectrico wrote:
| Yeah, it's called Timeline. At work we took Armenian colleagues
| to a pub which had it available. It was funny to play with the
| Polish localization, they understood more than we assumed
| (Armenians know Russian). But the replay value is dubious. The
| guy who won turned out to have this game at home. Kinda
| cheating ;)
| muglug wrote:
| Love it!
|
| You can tell a crowd photo wasn't taken in the last 10 years
| because nobody's looking at their phones.
| tazjin wrote:
| * 15 years. 10 years ago is already 5 years after the iPhone.
| muglug wrote:
| Yeah, but it took a while for looking at your phone while
| walking to become normalised.
| anigbrowl wrote:
| Amusing. Summary screen is hard to read and kinda redundant,
| needs a leaderboard.
| netsharc wrote:
| Don't these always end up getting spammed by script kiddies
| submitting the best scores?
| chaboud wrote:
| I'd love to see trends and stats on the photos across regions and
| collaboratively filtered (e.g., someone who accurately predicts
| photo XX is more likely to accurately predict photo YY).
|
| Also, it's a super curious dataset, photos with year metadata.
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| jug wrote:
| This reminds me of some TV show games here in Sweden. :)
|
| Got a perfect 1000 points on a pretty gruesome WW2 photo with
| jews around a train. Sort of a pyrrhic victory there... :|
|
| ~2200 on my first try, a lot obviously thanks to That Photo.
| klabb3 wrote:
| Pa sparet :)
| sdflhasjd wrote:
| Fun game. Does stutter a lot in Firefox on my phone for some
| reason.
| guilamu wrote:
| No problem here, latest ff, s10e.
| ztratar wrote:
| This was a lot of fun. Very unique game. Congratulations on
| making it! :)
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