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		GuB-42 on Dec 30, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pigment Mixing into Digital Painting The license is for the library, not for the algorithm. You can't license algorithms, only their implementation, and that's the case here. The algorithm could be patented, I guess, but it doesn't seem to be. The algorithm is not the natural phenomenon of pigment mixing. It is about how to mix RGB values in a way that imitates natural pigment mixing, which is not something natural as nature doesn't work in RGB.

a1o on Dec 30, 2024 [–]

The implementation looks fairly small unless I am missing something

https://github.com/scrtwpns/mixbox/blob/master/cpp/mixbox.cp...

Like, it looks like just decompress that lut and have it decompressed in the project and the rest is just interpolation algorithms.

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