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Comment on: Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones

by dahart
Posted: Aug 4, 2026
> 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.
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