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ZeroGravitaslast Thursday at 3:14 PM1 replyview on HN

I wonder if you could mostly have white spray paint and tiny cans of color. When I've seen paint mixed it's usually a surprisingly small amount of color being mixed in.


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ben_wyesterday at 11:50 AM

It's almost certainly possible, but when I've had cans of paint prepared (which, admittedly, was twice ever), they've always told me to get slightly more than I think I need because mixing a second batch that attempts to be the same isn't guaranteed to look the same when it dries. Still, if there's a continuous feedback mechanism like in this article, perhaps that's no longer true.

(Or perhaps it wasn't true even when the shop told me, and they were just repeating some second-hand knowledge that was last true a generation earlier; I wouldn't know).