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I wonder how feasible it would be to run this kind of thing against frames of a running video to periodically adjust the colours of the page container playing the video, sort of like that Phillips Ambilight TV:

http://www.philips.co.uk/c-m-so/televisions/p/ambilight

Also, writing the Gulpfile in Coffeescript and having "compile the Gulpfile to JS" in the installation instructions kind of made me frown a bit...

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There are quite a few JS Ambilight demos out there. Here's one that works pretty well: http://media.chikuyonok.ru/ambilight/

Well, there are a lot of DIY Ambilight clones, most commonly running on Arduino, monitoring the colors of computer's screen and lighting LED strips accordingly. So it's definitely feasible. But I predict that colour changes in the page background would be a lot less pleasing and more annoying than ambient lighting changes behind the screen.

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