The colors of this photo will appear different to everyone. I think?
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this is completely unedited color-wise, just without the surroundings.
i really don't care about the white/blue but the rest is clearly gold.
No, my monitor is has been calibrated. It's an optical illusion.
The colors in the picture are blue and gold-ish, while the dress is actually blue and black. It will only look like it's blue and black if your brain can place it in the correct context, which apparently is easy to get wrong for this picture.
Still doesn't explain people who swear the image itself changed, as in they were being trolled. This is a pretty significant perceptual change within the same set of eyeballs.
I see it as a dark blue. It definitely has some light/shadow affecting it but its clearly to me a darker blue dress. I could see if it was kind of pale blue or off white but no I see it in a rather pleasing dark blue color. My favorite.
I first saw white and gold, then saw what the dress looks like for real http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00SJEUCWU/ and my mind switched to black and blue. Weird.
Not sure if it's been posted, this explanation helped personally.
(Blue and Black for me, but this at least explains how somebody could hypothetically see it another way.)
Here we go. Was waiting for someone to make an easy to get image explaining it. This needs to be in the OP.
People who see blue and black are subconsciously compensating for warm sunlight over the dress.
People who see white and gold are subconsciously compensating for a cool shadow over the dress.
There's nothing wrong with which one your brain picks, it just sorta picks one and runs with it. Mine picked shadow at first, but once I realized it was light I can't go back to white/gold.
Dick Justice
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Well this is fucking weird. One second it's blue and black on my PC, I check it on my phone, suddenly it's white and gold, I look back at my PC and it's white and gold there too.
Means you are like me. I was totally team white gold and thought others were all in on some joke. Then it turned to blue black, but sometimes I it switches quickly back to white gold. It has really done a number on my mind tonight. It's like trying to really think about infinity.
Not sure what to tell you. Obviously with JPG compression artifacts different pixels are different colors but I grabbed the image sampled a single pixel and then filled the screen with that color.
Storm Kyleis
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Damn. When I scroll quickly or I see it with the corner of my eyes it's clearly black and blue, but then I focus on it and it's a badly lit white and gold.Are you serious?
How about this?
This one looks more like blue, but the original is still white.
FO-totality
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How do we not have a "Stump Presents:" poll yet?!
Are you serious?
How about this?
That's the color of a true black eye.
The Shogun
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Here's what I think is happening
Some part of the photo, no idea which, decides what you see. What I mean is what spot you eye focuses on first changes the overall picture to adapt to what its interpreting. Thats why some of us are switching our eyes focus on a different area and it changes the image.
There has to be some sort of strange color imbalance somewhere in the picture causing this
Some part of the photo, no idea which, decides what you see. What I mean is what spot you eye focuses on first changes the overall picture to adapt to what its interpreting. Thats why some of us are switching our eyes focus on a different area and it changes the image.
There has to be some sort of strange color imbalance somewhere in the picture causing this
Silent_Ocarina
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Let's try this guys. I isolated a single pixel of the image and filled the entire screen with it.
This is the "white" part.
This is the "gold" part
I'm pretty sure you're using an edited picture.
What if it never changes for you?
StopMakingSense
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Well, just to correct a bit... the bright warm light in the background is tungsten/other artificial light source. The cooler light would be the ambient daylight color which is naturally much cooler than most artificial light.
The most damning evidence putting it in the white/gold camp is the black items being clearly lit by the warm artificial light source. The more powerful light source in the image is shining directly on them, and the black is darker than the supposed black of this dress.
bobawesome
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Blue and black. I hate all of you whities.
Wait, that came out wrong.
itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
FO-totality
Poet Centuriate
This, 100%. So many crazy people online.
Dick Justice
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In my peripheral vision, it turns black and blue.
Vulcano's assistant
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I will forever quote this thread in every new "downgrade" thread
Same; I see blue and a rather dark gold, pretty much brown.
I would like to think that we're the superior ones for interpreting it both ways at the same time.
CitizenCope
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Nor sure what happened over 34 pages but this post says anything but white and gold is wrong.
ostrichKing
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Yeah I see a blue tinted white and a golden brown...which is also what photoshop reads as well...
I was solidly on team white/gold, to the point where I thought everyone saying black/blue for 10+ pages were trolling, but then I clicked that imgur link, scrolled down and looked at the guy's color corrected version for a bit, then when I scrolled back up I was shocked that the original appeared black/blue to me.
Ol No Bones
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