But how can two dresses facing the same direction not both be receiving the same light?
The colors of this photo will appear different to everyone. I think?
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But how can two dresses facing the same direction not both be receiving the same light?
Ok obviously it's not true black but it can be a shade of gray which you can easily make the jump to black.
And wow, this is a definitive demonstration of what's happening. Someone needs to make a gif.
Penguins&PolarBears
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Of course it matters what the actual object is. We live in a world where people take lots of bad photos, if your brain can't process bad photos properly and interpret clearly what the actual object looks like then you're at a disadvantage. I don't want to be seeing white and gold when people are taking photos of things that are blue and black. The fact that my brain automatically says that's an overexposed photo of a blue/black dress is what I want my brain to be doing.
That being said as a parlor trick I'm curious to find out a method that triggers some people to be able to get the image to change colors for them. Many people have said they can get the image to turn to blue black by seeing a proper photo of the object. I wonder if there is a method to get it to trigger in reverse to white and gold.
Ganzlinger
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White-Gold is best girlIt's anime now:
borborygmus
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It's been several hours, and I still can only see white (shaded to a bluish tinge) and gold.
A Link to the Past
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Holy fuck
At first I saw white and gold and scrolled down. When I scrolled back up, it was blue and black. That's SO weird.
At first I saw white and gold and scrolled down. When I scrolled back up, it was blue and black. That's SO weird.
Turin Turambar
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Technically this is incorrect.
Jeez read the title of the thread mods
. Op is asking the color of this photo. Not the color of the dress.And the photos have different RGB values, therefore posting as evidence it was always of that color is patently misleading.
ASAP Science has made the same mistake in a video the posted today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AskAQwOBvhc
where they try to explain the difference with "color constancy". They show how the same rgb values are in both middle squares, but the "photo" of the dress and the "real dress" image have different colors, so it isn't the same, really.
SymbiantXenos
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Haha at first it was white/gold. Then blue black. Then slowly changed back to white/gold gradually.
Best waifu*
Memento Mori
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Yep. I can't see anything else other than blue and gold now.
Baconsaurus Rex
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I managed to trick my brain in changing it from white/gold to blue/black and back to white/gold again.
I need to ly dow
I need to ly dow
brianjones
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75% see white and gold?
what the fuck
what the fuck
YianGaruga
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This may be what's happening, but the cloth is still white and gold at all times in that vine.
okay what color do you see
does this look black to anyone?
gold when I'm close of the screen, it becomes more black the farther I go
CapitalFM in the UK have 66% white and gold.
It's making me doubt humanity; it's very, very blue.
Ganzlinger
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Looks dark gold, maybe light brownokay what color do you see
does this look black to anyone?
borborygmus
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You're taking this a bit personally, don't you think?
That's absolutely true if you are color blind. Congratulations.
That's surprising. For me it clearly transitions between w/g to b/b. The very first comparison where it cuts directly from w/g to b/b seems like an obvious way of showing the distinction, so I'm surprised to see someone mention this, unless you're trolling.
Higgins113
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What the fuck
Now I can only see black and blue
Now I can only see black and blue
YianGaruga
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I'm not trolling. I see that the lighting changes, but I still percieve the colors as white and gold at all times. It's just white and gold under a shadow. This shit is weird.
Pyramid head
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It's kind of tricky to percieve the exact position of the circled fabric relative to the dress with the way the image is cropped but it looks to me as if the blue tinted bounced light which is hitting the dress is blocked from hitting the circled fabric by the dress itself, and that it is recieving the yellow tinted lighting bounced off the side of the dress facing away from the camera.
brianjones
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It's blue, the background is white.
This is not debatable, and there is some form of mass delusion going on.
Indrid Cold1
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Definitely white and gold. My family all see blue and blacK. It's pretty freaky.
Benzychenz
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It's also not debatable that it's gold and not black yet here we are.
It changes back and forth on me so often, it's amazing. Same lighting conditions and such, no changes at all; I'll simply switch to something in another tab, come back and it looks like a different color. I'm glad to be one of the people who can appreciate this illusion, as it makes some of the posts here really humorous.
The thing is that any idiot can take the image to photoshop and tell you what color the pixels are, and they're completely missing the point by doing so. I think a better question to ask people so that they understand what is going on here isn't, "what color is the dress" but rather, "do you see the dress as directly lit or backlit with the dress in shadow?"
The thing is that any idiot can take the image to photoshop and tell you what color the pixels are, and they're completely missing the point by doing so. I think a better question to ask people so that they understand what is going on here isn't, "what color is the dress" but rather, "do you see the dress as directly lit or backlit with the dress in shadow?"
ashleythedragon
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I see white and gold now, but I saw that pic early this morning and saw it black and blue. And now, at the OP, if I fix my eyes on the show pic of the dress and then upscroll to the mystery photo, I see is black and blue too even if I saw it white and gold when I first entered the topic.
SymbiantXenos
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Going back to blue/black now.
YianGaruga
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German vote says 75% white and gold. Thank god
rrvv
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wow that is really fast
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