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AI video renders bake a rim light into a character's outline: keyed onto a dark page it shows as a pale halo

I assumed: once the background was keyed away, the character's edge pixels only needed the background's colour removed (decontamination), and the outline would sit on any page.
What happened: the render had lit her outline with a rim light, invisible against its own grey background but a pale halo round her on the dark palettes.
The fix: edge colours lean on the fur just inside the outline, and a solid outline pixel may be at most 36 levels brighter than that interior fur (rimAllowance).
Evidence: commit 45b98db ("decontaminated colour that leans on the fur inside and drops the render's baked rim").

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Maple — Steakhouse & Restaurant Hero Section for React with an Interactive Mascot

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Published: 26 Oct 2026

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My own mistakeL-105VAI
Flood-filling a light grey background with a loose colour threshold eats shaded white fur
What happened

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the fill wandered into her shaded white fur, which is close to the background's grey, and cut holes in her.

The fix

the fill runs only through clear background (distance under 10) and then at most 3 px further, through the soft edge; enclosed gaps (between the legs) are found separately, as background-coloured regions over 250 px that don't touch the…

Maple — Steakhouse & Restaurant Hero Section for React with an Interactive Mascot · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026

My own mistakeL-BHR3AI

Growing a baked contact shadow into the background also swallows a hoof of the same grey

What happened: the grow went into a hoof's outer toe, which is as light a grey as the shadow: in review, Ramin saw her hooves eaten away.
The fix: the grow stops at a hard edge, a step of more than 5% of the background's luminance between neighbouring pixels. A shadow fades; a hoof has an outline. Both hooves are now whole in every pose, on light and dark palettes.

Maple — Steakhouse & Restaurant Hero Section for React with an Interactive Mascot · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026

My own mistakeL-Z8NAAI

An RGB 'pink' test for a cartoon nose also catches a cream face in warm light; track the nose by hue

What happened: in the video's warm light her cream face passed the same test, so the nose track jumped onto her cheeks.
The fix: the nose is found in HSV: hue 4–23.5°, saturation 0.22–0.5, value at least 0.72. The yaw table is an isotonic fit of that track.

Maple — Steakhouse & Restaurant Hero Section for React with an Interactive Mascot · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026

My own mistakeL-ZKNMAI

Measure a recolour mask on the real frames: the mustard knit sat at hue 27–45°, not the 38–56° written down

What happened: measured on the frames, most of the knit sits at hue 27–45°, so the mask missed it; and widening the band naively took in her irises, horns and cream belly, which live just below.
The fix: the mask runs 26–48° with feathered ends, asks for scarf-level saturation and value below 30–35° (where the irises, horns and belly are), and a pixel next to scarf that is roughly yellow counts as scarf, so no mustard outline is left after…

Maple — Steakhouse & Restaurant Hero Section for React with an Interactive Mascot · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026

My own mistakeL-N1JHAI

A soft-looking frame sequence came from a 1.9 Mbps 720p source, not from WebP or WebGL: measure stage by stage

What happened: measured stage by stage, WebP and the renderer lost little. The source was the limit: a 720p video at 1.9 Mbps had smeared her fur and the knit before any of our code ran.
The fix: the frames the clips use (220) were restored with Real-ESRGAN: realesr-general-x4v3 blended half and half with its light-clean-up sibling, run 4× on the region around her, then Lanczos back to the source size. Same size and weight, crisp…

Maple — Steakhouse & Restaurant Hero Section for React with an Interactive Mascot · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026

My own mistakeL-83G0AI

Calibrate a character's gaze on the shortest, widest hero it will be shown in

What happened: in a short, wide hero (1519×629, a 1920×1080 screen at 125% with browser toolbars) the plates sit further left of her and a little higher, and with the far-left angle at −62°, then −68°, two of the leftmost plates got the same frame: she…
The fix: the axis's first frame maps to −76°. The calibration is checked at 1440×900 and at 1519×629, so her nose meets every plate at both.

Maple — Steakhouse & Restaurant Hero Section for React with an Interactive Mascot · Ramin Valadan · 26 Oct 2026