Ugh. Seriously? Didn't we all discuss literally yesterday about pedantic misinterpretation of text on the Internet?
This article is about colorization, which means taking shades of gray and selecting a hue and saturation for them. The brightness is effectively fixed because, guess what, a black and white image can convey brightness already.
Obviously, black and white coloration on wolves falls outside of this because those are more or less already correct in the black and white image.
Now look at that picture you linked. What do you see? White: doesn't need much coloration. Black: uh, also doesn't need much coloration. Slightly brownish gray: like I said, wolves are all some kind of brown.
Show me a blue wolf, or a green wolf, then we'll have something interesting to talk about. But most wolves, like almost all mammals, have coloration pretty much limited to dull warm colors and tints and shades of those. Here's a picture for you:
This article is about colorization, which means taking shades of gray and selecting a hue and saturation for them. The brightness is effectively fixed because, guess what, a black and white image can convey brightness already.
Obviously, black and white coloration on wolves falls outside of this because those are more or less already correct in the black and white image.
Now look at that picture you linked. What do you see? White: doesn't need much coloration. Black: uh, also doesn't need much coloration. Slightly brownish gray: like I said, wolves are all some kind of brown.
Show me a blue wolf, or a green wolf, then we'll have something interesting to talk about. But most wolves, like almost all mammals, have coloration pretty much limited to dull warm colors and tints and shades of those. Here's a picture for you:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canis#/media/File:Canis.jpg
What do you see?