FlapPyBird 2: make the video stream simple and boring
Channel: RL Hugh
Date: 2022-07-31

Reduce the resolution; switch to grayscale. Less beautiful, but easier for the neural network to understand. Easier to learn.

This video is part of a playlist, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdBvOJzNTtDWnqjoGfkgHGogGIoywMNK6 .

The code for this video is available under MIT license at https://github.com/hughperkins/FlapPyBird-youtube-rl/blob/hp/youtube-rl/flappy_rl.py (this contains. a few more changes, from future videos, unfortunately...) .

Contents:
00:00 - Start
00:32 - Start coding
00:47 - Revise code so far
01:18 - Reduce resolution
02:30 - Convert to gray scale
04:20 - Saving tensor as image file
08:07 - Picture of gray scale
13:20 - Picture of low resolution and gray scale
13:54 - Outro