Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
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Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
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dahart · · focus · HN ↗
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.
a3w · · focus · HN ↗
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dahart · · focus · HN ↗
I meant race. We’re only talking about skin color here.
“Today, race refers to a group sharing some outward physical characteristics and some commonalities of culture and history. Ethnicity refers to markers acquired from the group with which one shares cultural, traditional, and familial bonds.”
<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/difference-between-race-and-ethnicity" rel="nofollow">https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/difference-between-r...
Race does exist (as does racism, unfortunately), and Wikipedia does have a page on race, as does any dictionary you choose. It would be a fair point that people should be sensitive to which word they choose based on context, and race is sometimes not the right word, but in this case it is the better choice, and the distinction in this context between race and ethnicity isn’t super relevant.