In his work “Kiss”, Luke DuBois visualized 50 iconic embraces from the history of cinema through a non-photorealistic rendering technique developed by the artist. The technique analyzes the footage by looking at details in the source that resemble the lips of the kissing actors and redrawing them with points tinted to match the colors of the original film. The data used in this project are the vertex of the figures within the images. These are most likely detected by identifying a high contrast in color between two nearby pixels. The software then connect all the dots to create a work of moving string art that entwines the actors performing the kiss in a new, geometric embrace of connecting lines.

Only the highlights of the lips, hair, and clothing are emphasized and tinted, while other parts of the images was filled in by the lines created by vectorization. Dubois prioritized the forms and movement of the points. He did not put much emphasize on recreating the color scheme of the films featured in the video. He also left out the background, leaving an empty space in between the human figures and in the background.