1998 Score 7.84 24 eps Red Complementary MAL ↗IMDb ↗ Sunrise Action Adventure Comedy Sci-Fi

Outlaw Star

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Smooth Average — mean color per frame
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Rank Mosaic — columns sorted by luminance
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Edit Pace — frame-to-frame color delta (bright = fast cuts)
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Color Temperature — warm (gold) vs cool (teal) per frame
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Frame Density Comparison — every 2nd vs every 4th frame
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A textbook arc-up barcode: act one opens on the drab browns of Sentinel III before

Gene Starwind's life explodes into vivid motion. The warm midpoint spike captures the

episode's centrepiece — a shootout in saturated neon lighting — before the third act

settles into the quieter reds of the stars themselves. The Red-Orange dominance is

Sunrise's house style of the era: bold, warm, never subtle. Gene Starwind shoots first

and asks questions in primary colors.

Brightness Arc (episode progression)

Hue Distribution

Act Breakdown

Opening
0.323
Middle
0.477
Closing
0.374
Avg Brightness
0.305
Avg Saturation
0.365
Warmth
0.534

Color Palette

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3-Act Color Story

Opening
Middle
Closing
Color Twins
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