BadAppleStein is a multimedia reconstruction project that recreates high-contrast video animations by matching video frames to a library of PDF pages. It combines C and Python components for efficient frame matching and multiple rendering pipelines to generate creative outputs from a PDF library.
YouTube demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia1wR8HScm0
- Purpose: Convert high-contrast video frames into an animation assembled from a library of PDF pages so that the video is represented using PDF content.
- Implementation: Core matching routines implemented in C (compiled to a shared object used by Python), with multiple Python scripts for arranging and rendering (
job1_*,job2_*). FFmpeg is used for standard video processing tasks.
match.c,libmatch.so— C matching implementation and compiled shared library.job1_*.py— arrangement scripts that select and place PDF frames.job2_*.py— rendering scripts that assemble the final output.library.pkl— precomputed index or library used for matching (if present).