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A turned photo's edge filled with its average colour reads as cardboard: draw the picture itself, shifted and darkened

Rule

If the thickness behind a turning cut-out reads as a flat slab, draw it from the same picture, shifted back by its depth and darkened by a tinted copy.

Snippet
// before: a flat fill of the garment's darkened average colour behind the front
<Animated.View style={[styles.abs, ff, { backgroundColor: darken(front.average, 0.3) }, edgeStyle]} />
// after: the garment's own picture, turned with the front and pushed back, then darkened 40%
<Animated.Image source={frontSrc} resizeMode="stretch" style={[styles.abs, ff, fo, edgeStyle]} />
<Animated.Image source={frontSrc} resizeMode="stretch" style={[styles.abs, ff, fo, { tintColor: '#000000' }, edgeShade]} />
Check

turn a two-coloured garment (a green body with cream sleeves) to 60–80°: the edge beside the sleeve is a darker cream, not a grey band.

Applies to

react-native-reanimated@>=4.5 <5, react-native-web@>=0.21 <0.22, other: any cut-out photo turned in perspective

I assumed

an edge filled with the garment's average colour, darkened 30%, would read as the garment's thickness.

What happened

on the filmstrips, the edge behind the turning varsity jacket read as a flat grey slab beside its cream sleeve, like a sheet of card.

Why

an average colour of a jacket of two colours is a third colour that is in neither; and a flat fill has none of the cloth's shading.

The fix

the edge is the front picture itself, pushed back by 4.5% of its width and darkened 40% by a black-tinted copy at opacity 0.4, so a cream sleeve has a darker cream edge and a green body a darker green.

Evidence

an edge sheet of the varsity, leather and puffer jackets at six angles each, light and dark (commit c31bbd7).

Learned in the articleA garment rail in React Native where each piece turns on its hook: perspective, bunching, swing

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