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1. dahart · 1785869713 · focus · HN ↗

   > What colors are we? The short answer is maybe something like “brown” and the long answer is very, very long.

   Pete Shirley (author of Ray Tracing In One Weekend) is also a part time color scientist, and he clued me into the fact that if you crank the saturation to 100% of pictures of people of any race, the skin color comes out orange. I think I heard that some face detectors may work on this principle, but I don’t remember where I heard that.

   1. mryingster · 1785876357 · focus · HN ↗

      And brown is just orange... with context.

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