Executive Summary

• Researchers develop simple algorithm for diverse skin tones
• Color space allows for realistic skin tone generation
• Applications in game design and animation

The Buzz Score

The Internet’s Verdict: 70% Hyped, 30% Skeptical

Forum Voices

Forum users praise the algorithm’s simplicity and potential applications.

Love it! I was looking at this a little while ago, and used some of The Pudding’s data on makeup/foundation shades and plotted it into the Oklab colorspace.

Others appreciate the presentation and potential for character design.

This part is especially cool. Would love to see this 3-D picker ability in the many character designers out there, instead of the lame 8 swatches or whatever.

Technical Details

Researchers use a function fitting approach to generate skin tones, rather than PCA or U-space vectors.

Manual data labeling is used, which may introduce bias, but results are consistent.

Focus Keyword: Skin Tones