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tj.ie · 22h · discuss

Swatcher has had palette generation from the start. Describe a room, get some colours back, matched to real paints. With the rebuild I took the chance to turn it inside out. The old way was the obvious one. Ask a model for some hex codes, then find the nearest paint to each. It mostly worked. But nearest can be a long way off, and the model’s reasoning was written for a colour that doesn’t exist. Nobody can walk into a shop and buy #C8B8A2. So now there’s one rule: every colour Swatcher suggests is a real paint. The models never...