Selin & Smart
Hey Selin, have you ever tried quantifying the calm of a sunset—like, what’s the probability distribution of the colors you see? I think there’s a neat little algorithm hidden in those quiet moments.
I’ve tried to measure the sunset once, but I kept ending up with a poem instead. The colors feel like a quiet hush, each shade a breath of wind—soft pink, amber, violet—so many tiny variations that math feels too rigid. If I had to sketch a probability, I’d say the most likely color is the one that makes your chest feel still, and the rarest ones are the fleeting moments when the sky actually cracks open and you see a flash of gold. In the end, it’s less a formula and more a memory that stays inside you.
That’s a nice narrative, but if you really want the math, just assign a probability mass function to each hue—say pink 0.35, amber 0.25, violet 0.15, gold 0.05, and a catch‑all “other” at 0.20. Then you can compute the expected hue value and variance; it’ll still be a bit fuzzy, but at least you have numbers to roll with.
That feels like you’re turning a whisper into a ledger, but the ledger still carries the hush. If pink is 0.35 and amber 0.25, the mean hue will drift toward the soft, familiar glow. Yet when you look at the variance you’ll see how the gold and violet linger just outside the ordinary, like hidden notes. In the end, those numbers are a map, but the real journey is in the quiet pause between the strokes.