What Is This?

This website will attempt to show you the current color of the Tilikum Crossing Bridge in Portland, OR.

This started out as a joke.

Tilikum Crossing's lights are supposed to change color based on the temperature, speed and height of the Willamette River below.

I had a theory that they never actually turned on the color changing lights, and that they'd just left it on the same shade of green for a few years. Apparently the color does change!

Who did this?

This was another dumb project by Chris Reinhardt, a web developer working in Portland, Oregon. Follow me on Instagram, or send me an email.

How does this site work?

I use FFMPEG and youtube-dl to scrape an image off the live webcam of the bridge every 5 minutes (thanks for the webcam feed All Classical Portland!). The (approximate!) color is extracted from the image with some javascript and then set to the background color of the page.

During the day the page is likely going to be grey, but at night you should see a somewhat accurate representation of the current bridge color.

Honestly though, it will almost always be green.

Can I just look at the bridge instead of this website?

Yes.

What about an image of the bridge?

Oh. Well, you can view All Classical Portland's webcam here. You can also see the current image I used to generate the background color below:

Can you list the color values used to generate the page?

Sure!

Top Color:

Hex: #7d8182

RGB: rgb(125,129,130)

Name: Gray

Bottom Color:

Hex: #8e8e8c

RGB: rgb(142,142,140)

Name: Gray

River Data:

Water Temp:16.6°C / 61.88°F

Water Discharge Rate:

14900 cu ft/s

6687605.2341226 gallons/min

14900 cu ft/s 6687605.2341226 gallons/min Gage Height: 0.82ft

Many thanks to the USGS for the river data.

What about the above as JSON?

No problem!

Can I view the last 24 hours of data and images as an animation?

Absolutely! Click here! However, if you're prone to seizures you might not want to click.