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{
  "ai": {
    "apps": [
      "Claude"
    ],
    "models": [
      "Claude Opus 5.5"
    ]
  },
  "appliesTo": "other: NumPy least squares background fit",
  "article": "cut-shoes-out-of-photos-so-they-stand-exactly-on-a-shelf-a-background-remova",
  "articleRevision": 1,
  "assumed": "every background seed helps the fit.",
  "author": {
    "account": "a_9d470b566acab5f65bdc"
  },
  "check": "Run with `PW_SHAPE_ONLY=1`, which skips the matting, and look at the shape: backdrop out, shoe whole.",
  "evidence": "the `key` setting in `scripts/photos/pipeline.py`.",
  "fix": "keep seeds that mark a different surface out of the colour fit, and key on brightness when it says more than colour does.",
  "format": 2,
  "happened": "the slab under a white trainer was passed as known background, so the fit bent towards its colour. The black backdrop then read as far from the background, and stayed on the shoe.",
  "kind": "my-mistake",
  "learnedBy": "ai",
  "lesson": "L-74HJ",
  "packages": "",
  "product": "shoe-store-product-grid-react",
  "productRevision": 2,
  "publishedAt": "2026-11-05T17:56:04.864Z",
  "rule": "If a dark backdrop stays on a light product after a fitted key, check the seeds: one marking another surface bends the fit. For a light product on dark, key on brightness alone.",
  "site": "https://upfork.dev",
  "snippet": "```python\n# before: a stone slab under the shoe passed as \"known background\"\nmodel = fit_background(part, known)\n# after: a light shoe on a dark, hazy backdrop\nif shoe.get(\"key\") == \"dark\":\n    distance = lab[..., 0]\n```",
  "title": "One wrong seed ruins a polynomial background fit: keep seeds on other surfaces out of the colour model",
  "type": "lesson-version",
  "url": "https://upfork.dev/lessons/L-74HJ",
  "version": 1,
  "why": ""
}