you fucking people with the green names always ruining shit
The colors of this photo will appear different to everyone. I think?
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you fucking people with the green names always ruining shit
SmackAttack
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Eyes, man. How do they work? This stuff is crazy/
It's a mix of people being trolled by different images and people saying they see 'blue' when it's really an off-white with a hint of light blue. So not what you think of when someone says it's a blue dress.
Not sure how people are seeing black though. Their monitors must suck.
Zomba13
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Yeah. It's like someone asking what colour the sky is and you say blue but really, at the moment its overcast so it's grey so you are wrong. It's like, well yeah, now its grey but the sky is actually blue when not covered with clouds. That dress is white when actually seen and not in shadow or badly exposed or whatever the photography term is.
GUYS STOP AND READ THIS POST
This is a person who swears by Blue and Black.
He has said, "because of the lighting the colors seem a bit washed out and the black a bit brownish."
It's not black then is it? People, please post what colours you ACTUALLY SEE, not what you think the colour represents.
I did wine-tasting once and I was told that some "sweet" wines weren't actually sweet, but that we were used to calling flavours sweet because we associated it with it. For example, a non-sweet fruit we'd call sweet because when we eat it in a juice it is, so the smell of the actual fruit we interpret as sweet even though it isn't.
EVERYONE who is calling it white, it isn't white white is it? It's just that with the stupid choices given to us, white and gold, black and blue, we are just choosing one of those.
Those who are seeing the white as more blue are calling the other black, and those who don't see it as black are calling the blue as white.
I think the troll is the choice we have.
And those who are saying they see two different things... Do the colours when isolated ever change? We can objectively see that the pixels are actually blue and brown, no question.
Your eyes and the the image processing part of your brain are failing to compensate for the overexposure in the picture. The camera didn't compensate for it either, as it captured the effect of the overexposure, hence the RGB values you're getting.
thesoapster
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At first I saw white and gold. I am tired right now and have been staring at a white screen, typing up shit for a couple hours. I started scrolling through some other things, then I looked back at the photo.......blue and black. Am I a wizard?
LOL, well played.
The Silver
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I can only see blue and "black" if I my hold my phone far away and tilt it so it's almost flat.
On my laptop the first time I saw it was white and gold no doubt about it, now I'm starting to notice a lot more of the greyish blue but that seems to be due to the shade and what not.
On my laptop the first time I saw it was white and gold no doubt about it, now I'm starting to notice a lot more of the greyish blue but that seems to be due to the shade and what not.
Neither. White and black aren't colors. They're the absence/combination of all colors depending on if you're talking pigment vs. light.
Focus on the brighter gold area of the neck for a few seconds, with widened eyes if you can, and see if it changes for you after a while. This seems to work for getting myself to see white/gold again.
http://i.imgur.com/LrYZm6Z.png
Wait, that is like a grey/blue and a charcoal/black
It kind of reminds me of this, but with color. So weird, can't say I've ever seen anything quite like it.
What way is the dancer spinning, to the right or to the left?
the right, clearly
InaudibleWhispa
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If I see this lady on the street I swear I'm gonna punch her right in the face.
The colours I actually see are still pale blue and gold.
However, now that I've been away from the computer for a while, my brain is interpreting it to be an overexposed blue and black dress but with light falling over it to give the black a gold tint. (This is with my laptop screen facing directly towards me.) Earlier today, I was interpreting it as a white and gold dress.
However, now that I've been away from the computer for a while, my brain is interpreting it to be an overexposed blue and black dress but with light falling over it to give the black a gold tint. (This is with my laptop screen facing directly towards me.) Earlier today, I was interpreting it as a white and gold dress.
RazorbackDB
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White and gold here.
kingwingin
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I saw white and gold at first and still see white and gold.
I asked my girl what colour it was and she says blue black
I asked my girl what colour it was and she says blue black
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
OP, now you've got people arguing semantics about light blue and bluish white. See what you've done?
But we're looking at a light-based representation of a digital photo of a dress, not a dress.
But we're looking at a light-based representation of a digital photo of a dress, not a dress.
me too
blame space
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i saw white and gold until i saw this and now i see blue and black.its blue and black btw, just a really overexposed photo
Zomba13
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Wait, that is like a charcoal/black and a greying/blue
It kind of reminds me of this, but with color. So weird, can't say I've ever seen anything quite like it.
What way is the dancer spinning, to the right or to the left?
I love that gif because if you know how you can swap the way she appears to spin.
No change.
We could argue the tint of the black sections of the dress... because of the light they seem a bit brownish.
But the blue is so very clearly blue. Where do the white comments come from?
The Shogun
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Guys this is an OPTICAL ILLUSION
There's no point in arguing the actual color of the dress. We have other pictures of it, its black and blue.
Whats insane is that the OP image is some sort of straaaaaaange optical illusion due to who knows what in the image.
Its just that specific image that causes the illusion. No one is "wrong" about the color they see. They are really interpreting it that way.
There's no point in arguing the actual color of the dress. We have other pictures of it, its black and blue.
Whats insane is that the OP image is some sort of straaaaaaange optical illusion due to who knows what in the image.
Its just that specific image that causes the illusion. No one is "wrong" about the color they see. They are really interpreting it that way.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
But the dress itself has color. Can't you make it out in my image? Your eyes aren't compensating?
blame space
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I'm calling bullshit on retinas.
Vulcano's assistant
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People who see it as white are interpreting it to be a white dress under blue-ish light.
OK so I originally saw white and gold. After seeing many people saying it was black and blue I was convinced they were trolling. However I remembered that spinning shadow girl with her leg stuck out. I was able to switch between the direction I saw her spinning depending on where I looked and how I chose to perceive it. I decided to attempt the same with this dress.
It turns out it's pretty simple to go between the different colours. It's just a matter of perception. Are the bright areas hhighlights on a dark colour or are the dark areas shadow on a brighter colour. If you focus intently on one or the other before taking in the rest of the picture you should be able to perceive it either way.
It turns out it's pretty simple to go between the different colours. It's just a matter of perception. Are the bright areas hhighlights on a dark colour or are the dark areas shadow on a brighter colour. If you focus intently on one or the other before taking in the rest of the picture you should be able to perceive it either way.
No, I've seen both. Both were equally convincing. My brain said "blue" at one point and "white" at another, without hesitation. And no, when the colors are isolated they are always blue and brown, because that's what the hex values actually are. Once again, it's not a matter of what the screen is objectively displaying, it's a matter of how the brain interprets what one sees. It's the context of the picture that creates the discrepancy.
KittenMaster
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One thing to note is that black as it is in real life isn't a perfect even gray as people tend to think of it. The photo overexposure (or however it was brightened) probably interpreted the black as a golden hue that happened to be an incredibly dark one and the blue got lightened into a bluish white.
TRD Mr Blonde
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Put me in the camp that saw white and gold at first. I read some comments and scrolled back up and it was blue and gold. Someones playing tricks here.
Chezzymann
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Yeah i think it would be very strange for this many people to have defective retinas. The answers are pretty evenly split. Its just an optical illusion.
The problem is that even if the color was much lighter than it is now, it would still look blue to me.
Like I've seen lighter blue than this where no one would say it looked white.
JackLongRod
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I saw this shit in facebook never did I think i would come to GAF and see a 20+ thread
ElectricBlanketFire
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ExpressGalaxy
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Greyish-blue and a sort of bronze-y gold.
Yep. I don't care what color the dress is normally or what the context of the lighting does to it's colors. The question is what are the colors of the dress in this (overexposed) photo. My eyes see the colors quoted above. No black here at all.
Orbis Tabula
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Alright. I know I said I was done, but it would be too rude not to respond.
Most people on the white and gold side (from what I've seen) admit that the white is "bluish white" so when I say that the pixels are white, I'm just trying to stick to the "blue and black v. gold and white" terminology. The "white" that the "white and gold" people see is definitely bluish.
It is fascinating. I guess my theory doesn't really account for the people who see white and gold, even after seeing the actual color of the dress. It could just have to do with the fact that people tend to not change their minds. That once and answer is in your brain, it tends to stick there, no matter how much you try to budge it. But then there's the people that did have their minds' changed...
I don't think my theory necessitates that everyone sees white and gold first, nor that the black and blue people didn't see it after the original came out. Only that seeing the original tends to change peoples' minds, and that for the most part, people are arguing because they're not agreeing on terms.
I feel I basically covered this with the White House example. Sometimes people interpret "what color is this" as "what color is the thing in this picture, that isn't necessarily showing true colors." It's not that unusual of an interpretation.
I don't think my explanation says that people can't see black and blue first. Only that those people who were originally white and gold, but switched after seeing the real picture, did so because their minds were now compensating for the false colors in the washed out photo.
But I feel like the more I'm typing, the less clear my ideas are coming out. They all seem so clear in my head, so sorry if it's confusing.
Most people on the white and gold side (from what I've seen) admit that the white is "bluish white" so when I say that the pixels are white, I'm just trying to stick to the "blue and black v. gold and white" terminology. The "white" that the "white and gold" people see is definitely bluish.
It is fascinating. I guess my theory doesn't really account for the people who see white and gold, even after seeing the actual color of the dress. It could just have to do with the fact that people tend to not change their minds. That once and answer is in your brain, it tends to stick there, no matter how much you try to budge it. But then there's the people that did have their minds' changed...
I don't think my theory necessitates that everyone sees white and gold first, nor that the black and blue people didn't see it after the original came out. Only that seeing the original tends to change peoples' minds, and that for the most part, people are arguing because they're not agreeing on terms.
Well two points to this:
First, that's kinda a weird way to answer the question. If you ask what color something is and then show a picture, reality shouldn't matter. What color is this rectangle?
Nobody's going to say "red" even though that's what it was before I inverted the colors. I agree that some people are answering the question that way. I just think answering the question that way is objectively wrong. You could add a qualifier like "outside of the lighting conditions, the dress is..." but that doesn't change how the dress appears in the image.
Second, I think most people who are answering blue/black actually see those colors.
To those people, I whipped this up real quick:
I took the default MS Paint Black color and a brownish/gold color that I kinda randomly picked using "edit colors" tool. The black band across the dress really looks like the top and nothing like the bottom to some people? I think everyone can agree the object on the left side of the dress is black.
I feel I basically covered this with the White House example. Sometimes people interpret "what color is this" as "what color is the thing in this picture, that isn't necessarily showing true colors." It's not that unusual of an interpretation.
I don't think my explanation says that people can't see black and blue first. Only that those people who were originally white and gold, but switched after seeing the real picture, did so because their minds were now compensating for the false colors in the washed out photo.
But I feel like the more I'm typing, the less clear my ideas are coming out. They all seem so clear in my head, so sorry if it's confusing.
Colonel Nasty
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I liked the Llama thing more
Shpeshal Nick
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Loving #teamblackblue posting "real" pics of the dress. Yes, because I'm sure that dress only exists in one colour style.
Its white gold that's shaded.
Its white gold that's shaded.
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