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Blake Sparkman

Washington University in St. Louis

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The optical origin of the human skin color 'banana' in CIELAB space

Maysoon Harunani, Ye Jin Han, Mutian Shen, Blake Sparkman, David Y. Chen, Zohar Nussinov, Leonid Shmuylovich

The paper develops a physics-based framework to link skin chromophore content to colorimeter-derived skin color coordinates, revealing how melanin and blood contribute to the banana-shaped locus in CIELAB space.

bioRxiv · Jun 18, 2026 · PreprintBioengineering