The colors of this photo will appear different to everyone. I think?

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Because there's an intense light shining down on it and the exposure is way off. Pure black dye does not actually exist, usually it's a really dark brown. Under the kind of intense lighting in the photo it appears brown (or gold if you will).

What he is asking, is how can you see what appears brown as black? They are talking about the colours of the image.

But I have see both. It has looked very black and blue once, and very white and gold.

Although, I mostly see blue and brown.
 
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I saw it as white and gold... then later as blue and black.

Either someone switched the image, or it's a very odd unintentional illusion. Probably similar to the shadow illusion, which is my favorite.
 
Ah I see the blue and black now.

What finally did it for me was scrolling the page down slowly on my phone, slowly showing the bottom first. The sheen on the top is what keeps on triggering the white/gold state in my mind.
 
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Exactly

The worst part is that this image isn't about interpretation either. It's a subconscious thing.

People who haven't seen the switch will keep arguing what it really is etc. I can't wait until it is common knowledge that it switches.
 
What he is asking, is how can you see what appears brown as black? They are talking about the colours of the image.

But I have see both. It has looked very black and blue once, and very white and gold.

Although, I mostly see blue and brown.

I see it on my monitor as light blue and dark brown, but I know from experience that the pic is completely blown out and that the dress itself is royal blue and black.
 
We've confirmed that the image hasn't switched from a few hours ago right?

Yeah. I took a screen of it a few pages ago -- one person saw blue and the other white and gold. I def saw white and gold when I took the screen - now I see it as black and blue and can't go back.
 
I did it. I recalibrated my head so that I went from seeing blue to seeing white. It involved much unnecessary craning of the neck.

Also, if you're seeing the blue, that dress totally looks like it's made of blue silly putty, right?
 
I see it on my monitor as light blue and dark brown, but I know from experience that the pic is completely blown out and that the dress itself is royal blue and black.

What the image actually is won't matter. I have seen the switch after knowing what it should be. Even after knowing what the pixels are isolated too.

Just give it time :D
 
My brain is filling it in now I guess. I first saw gold and white, but caught it from an angle on my screen and saw black and blue. Now I see it almost in between, like my brain understands the lighting better now.
 
I saw white and gold when I first looked at it, but when I went back to it after reading down a bit I now see blue and black.

Slightly unnerved by that.
 
I can totally understand people seeing gold in the black. It does have a gold tint to it but thats because it's a completely shitty camera. I've taken plenty of photos of black things that come out gold because of the lighting and horrible sensors.

But the blue being white? That's where your eyes are broken. It's clearly blue even in that shitty photograph. No amount of squinting in the world could make it white at all.

The part that surprises me is how many of you are saying you keep seeing it differently as time goes on. That to me seems like a medical problem people should get checked.


Also, I'm really sad that Taylor Swift knows it's blue and black, but Nathan Fillion thinks it's white and gold. How could you Nathan?

Wtf? The NeoGAF logo changed colors
It did? It's still the same purple and green it's always been for me.
 
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While I understand there are lots of blue pixels on the right image, it still looks like a white and gold dress, just in poor lighting.


Oddly enough, it still looks black and blue here, just with really messed up blacks. The actual color you see is gold though.
 
I can totally understand people seeing gold in the black. It does have a gold tint to it but thats because it's a completely shitty camera. I've taken plenty of photos of black things that come out gold because of the lighting and horrible sensors.

But the blue being white? That's where your eyes are broken. It's clearly blue even in that shitty photograph. No amount of squinting in the world could make it white at all.

The part that surprises me is how many of you are saying you keep seeing it differently as time goes on. That to me seems like a medical problem people should get checked.


Also, I'm really sad that Taylor Swift knows it's blue and black, but Nathan Fillion thinks it's white and gold. How could you Nathan?


It did? It's still the same purple and green it's always been for me.

Alright, time to go to bed.
 
Holy crap! This is rubbish and trickery! It's white and gold as soon as I open it and then it turns blue and black as soon as I scroll down to read the reason. Im looking at it at the same time with my bf and we see diff colors. It keeps changing colors for me! This is nuts!!
 
Saw it whitish -blue and gold first.

Then did that random color blindness test and it said I had normal color eyesight.

Then I went back to GAF and it's blue and black.

My head exploded.

Those saying overexposure of the pic, it's not...I swear it literally just changed colors even though the exposure looks the same.
 
What the image actually is won't matter. I have seen the switch after knowing what it should be. Even after knowing what the pixels are isolated too.

Just give it time :D

I really don't think I'm going to change. I've spent too much time doing color correction that these kinds of illusions are lost on me. Maybe if the picture was taken outdoors with a blue sky as a backdrop, then I could see the blue as being white, but that's not the case here. This pic looks like is was taken under a tungsten halogen lamp at a clothing store.
 
Seems white and gold to me. I mean, the way the photo's taken makes the dress seem kinda dark, but to me the dress is white and gold.
 
Exactly

The worst part is that this image isn't about interpretation either. It's a subconscious thing.

People who haven't seen the switch will keep arguing what it really is etc. I can't wait until it is common knowledge that it switches.

I was wrong about the equation I apologize.
 
Ah I see the blue and black now.

What finally did it for me was scrolling the page down slowly on my phone, slowly showing the bottom first. The sheen on the top is what keeps on triggering the white/gold state in my mind.

PRAISE JESUS. I WAS BLIND BUT NOW I SEE.

I just did that and it changed to blue and black. Scrolled up the page from the bottom of the dress slowly. Top of the dress still looks kind of gold though.
 
I really don't think I'm going to change. I've spent too much time doing color correction that these kinds of things are lost on me. Maybe if the picture was taken outdoors with a blue sky as a backdrop, then I could see the blue as being white, but that's not the case here. This pic looks like is was taken under a tungsten halogen lamp at a clothing store.

It will, and when it does, you will realise that your colour correct experience means nothing.

I can switch between them every few minutes now. It's really amazing.

White and Gold, Blue and Black.
 
Holy shit.

It was clearly blatantly white and gold.

Then I tried to go to bed for awhile, even napped for half an hour, and was generally lying in bed with the lights off for an hour.

I looked at the dress again and it's clearly blatantly blue and black.

Holy shit.
 
Saw it whitish -blue and gold first.

Then did that random color blindness test and it said I had normal color eyesight.

Then I went back to GAF and it's blue and black.

My head exploded.

Those saying overexposure of the pic, it's not...I swear it literally just changed colors even though the exposure looks the same.

It didn't "change", your brain just finally made sense of a bad picture. Like you're conscious of the fact that it's a digital picture with bad lighting and exposure issues now.

You're disconnected from the Matrix, breh.
 
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