[jbattle]

This seems almost too good to be true. One thing I find very striking is how it gets skin tones very plausible across people of different ethnicities (though the majority of subjects in the picture appear of european descent).

Unless a) my brain is applying more interpretation to these pictures than I realize or b) the author (intentionally or not) picked out pictures that show the best results

[userbinator]

One thing I find very striking is how it gets skin tones very plausible across people of different ethnicities (though the majority of subjects in the picture appear of european descent).

Look at the Chinese Opium Smokers in 1880. They appear slightly too caucasian-coloured to me.

At the extreme, it'd be interesting to see what it would do to these, for example: https://mashable.com/2015/01/31/former-slaves-photos-united-...

[drcode]

Yeah some of the details are absurdly good, especially the picture of the "Texas Woman", how it gets the dogs ears perfect, perfect colors on the apples, and renders the copper pot a perfect copper hue.

[aembleton]

Unfortunately her hands are grey. Otherwise, it is very good.

[shawn]

Your brain is applying far more interpretation to color than people are consciously aware of.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jantic/DeOldify/master/res...

His face is arguably too red. But on average it’s fine. (Amusing: is this comment correct, or unconsciously biased by the lack of knowledge of what native Americans actually look like? I admit the latter is possible.)

Humans interpret colors thanks to context. When you strip away context, it’s easy to come up with things that fool you. (Optical illusions are the limit case of this.)

See DaVinci’s journals on color. They are worth studying, and most entries are so short they may as well be tweets. http://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/dvs005.htm