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TED Talk, in Charts
I asked Ted if the file was ready. He said "so — stepping back," somebody dimmed the lights, and our fifteen-minute standup became an eighteen-minute keynote with no slides and no point. This time, in charts. 📊
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The code behind it
Every frame of this video is drawn by a Python program. This is the heart of it, from scene.py, line 1285.
def render_frame(t, W=1920, H=1080, fi=0):
img = paper(W, H)
cv = Cv(img, W, H)
tp = T_PILL
if not cv.vert and not C.STATE["clean"]: # the masthead steps aside while the subscribe pill is up (16:9)
cv.op = 1 - sstep(tp - 0.1, tp + 0.3, t) * (1 - sstep(tp + 4.6, tp + 5.0, t))
if not (T_PLACE + 0.6 < t):
masthead(cv, t)
else:
cv.dy = -drift_cam(cv, t); masthead(cv, t); cv.dy = 0.0
cv.op = 1.0
draw_figs(cv, t)
if T_SOW - 0.3 < t < T_DIM + 0.6: # the zoomed-out page slides under a fixed masthead
yb = int(round((186 if not cv.vert else 372) * cv.k)); fe = max(2, int(14 * cv.k))
a = np.clip((yb - np.arange(yb + fe, dtype=F32)) / fe + 1.0, 0, 1)[:, None, None]
img[:yb + fe] = img[:yb + fe] * (1 - a) + paper(W, H)[:yb + fe] * a
masthead(cv, t)
fig_so(cv, t)
light(img, t, W, H)
lyrics(img, t, W, H)
tabloid(img, t, W, H)
if not C.STATE["clean"]:
C.subscribe_pill(img, t, W, H, T_PILL, 5.0)
C.end_screen(img, t, W, H, T_END, DUR - T_END, "It's always a Ted talk.", sub_line="Subscribe for a new song every week",
title="TED Talk, in charts", accent=RED)
return finish(img, t, fi)Read all 1,446 lines on GitHub. If you use it, credit aditazzz and link the video.
What you see
The whole song is one issue of a newspaper called The Daily Standup, with a new chart every few seconds: how Ted handles a question (it never reaches ANSWER), my will to live by minute (it falls off a cliff at minute four), the topics he covered (your question: 0%), his most-used words (so: 214, the file: 0), buzzword bingo, and a zoom-out on the one question nobody answered. When somebody dims the lights the paper sits under a spotlight; at Dana's hard stop the office lights snap back on and the paper prints a CORRECTION. In the end Ted's dot unplugs from the team network and drifts down into a footnote.
Files
By the numbers
- 2:41 long, 9,834 frames rendered (16:9 and 9:16, 30 fps)
- 57 lyric lines and 274 words synced to the vocals, 144 BPM
- 5 Shorts and Reels cut from it
Lyrics
Words and music by aditazzz.
Verse
He doesn't answer questions.
He responds to them.
There's a difference and you'll feel it
about four minutes in.
I asked him if the file was ready.
He said, so — stepping back.
Somebody dim the lights,
everybody sit down.
Chorus
It's a Ted talk.
Eighteen minutes, no slides, no point.
There's a story about his father.
There's a pause he thinks is powerful.
It's a Ted talk.
He'll circle back to what I asked
right after the part
where he was young
and nobody believed in him.
Verse
He starts every sentence with so.
He ends every thought with right?
He says, the real question is,
about the question I just asked.
He said journey. He said unlock.
He said, let me tell you a story,
and I watched my calendar
give up.
Chorus
It's a Ted talk.
Eighteen minutes, no slides, no point.
There's a story about his father.
There's a pause he thinks is powerful.
It's a Ted talk.
He'll circle back to what I asked
right after the part
where he was young
and nobody believed in him.
Bridge
Ted.
This is a standup.
It is fifteen minutes
for eight people.
You have used six.
Dana had a hard stop.
Dana has had a hard stop
for two years.
Dana is a ghost now, Ted.
You did that.
Final chorus
It's a Ted talk.
Nobody scheduled it.
Nobody can end it.
There's no Q and A,
because there's no A,
because there was never a Q.
It's a Ted talk.
It's always a Ted talk.
Outro
Anyway — happy to take this offline.
He says.
Having taken it offline.
Into a place
none of us can reach.