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Emoji Video App Will Replaces Pixels WIth Smiley Faces

The new camera-filtering app from Brian Chasalow transforms images and videos into animated emoji collages.

Emoji Video is an app that transforms images into animated emoji video collages. Designed by artist and programmer Brian Chasalow, who previously developed software for Chris Milk's The Treachery of Sanctuarythe app analyzes smartphone camera footage in realtime, and match specific pixel colors with correspondingly-colored emoticons. Inspired by Forced Meme Productions' Emoji Art and Design Show, Emoji Video offers users the chance to see the world as smiles and cartoon animals.

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It's a "natural progression" of the nonverbal communication tool, explains Chasalow. Now, all our selfies and brunch pics can be morphed into mini food icons and emoji categories, evolving the image-based lexicon into a full-on camera filter. The artist-programmer elaborates:

"Each emoji is analyzed to determine its color, brightness, and the 'closest' pixel color that represents that emoji. All this information is stored and read by the graphics card, which does all the pixel-to-emoji matching massively in parallel. The pixel-to-image idea has existed since the days of ASCII art, but the new GPU-based technique I developed is fast enough to run on videos in realtime on an iPhone."

"The technology behind Emoji Video could also work on any imagery, not just emoji," Chasalow told The Creators Project. "It could use images from your phone's camera roll, a custom designed set of images, branded content, or more geometric shapes and patterns (the Shapes emoji filter is one of my favorites). In the future I may release another app that uses this technology in a different context."

So if your world view is looking bleak, a healthy infusion of "see no evil" monkeys and snowflakes just might be the panacea. Try the app for yourself here: www.emojivideo.com

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