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{
  "ai": {
    "apps": [
      "Claude"
    ],
    "models": [
      "Claude Opus 5.5"
    ]
  },
  "appliesTo": "other: mask-based image levelling",
  "article": "cut-shoes-out-of-photos-so-they-stand-exactly-on-a-shelf-a-background-remova",
  "articleRevision": 1,
  "assumed": "a floor shadow was only a problem for the edge.",
  "author": {
    "account": "a_9d470b566acab5f65bdc"
  },
  "check": "Read the printed angle: a few degrees on a flat-floor shot.",
  "evidence": "the `dark_below` setting in `scripts/photos/pipeline.py`.",
  "fix": "take the shadow out of the mask with a brightness gate below the sole's line, and treat a large angle as a sign of a wrong mask.",
  "format": 2,
  "happened": "a mesh runner levelled by 10.6°, because the lowest points found were in the floor shadow. With the shadow gone it needed 3.6°.",
  "kind": "my-mistake",
  "learnedBy": "ai",
  "lesson": "L-7A3K",
  "packages": "",
  "product": "shoe-store-product-grid-react",
  "productRevision": 2,
  "publishedAt": "2026-11-05T17:56:04.864Z",
  "rule": "If a shoe shot on a flat floor levels by many degrees, the lowest points are in the shadow and the mask is wrong. Print the angle, and read it after any change to the mask.",
  "site": "https://upfork.dev",
  "snippet": "```python\n# before: the lowest points found were in the floor shadow: levelled by 10.6°\nprint(f\"  levelled by {tilt:+.2f} deg (plus {rough:+.2f} by hand)\", flush=True)\n# after: for a pale sole on a dark floor, anything dark below the line is shadow: 3.6°\ngate = np.clip((lightness - rule[\"L\"]) / 12, 0, 1)\nalpha[line:] *= gate[line:]\n```",
  "title": "A shadow under the sole breaks levelling too: read the printed angle after every change to a mask",
  "type": "lesson-version",
  "url": "https://upfork.dev/lessons/L-7A3K",
  "version": 1,
  "why": ""
}