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

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Initially saw "white and gold". To me it looked more like an ivory-ish with a light purple and gold, but whatever. Now I can see either depending on the light in the room I'm in or the angle I view the pic at.
 
People who see that blue shade as white may want to consider calibrating their monitors. It's like the most typical washed out photo of a blue color... I don't understand how's there even a discussion about this (and I fall for those checkerboard color optical illusions just the same as everyone else btw).

A Sentient Keyboard said:
I can see the black as dark gold/brown, but I cannot for the life of me see the blue as white.
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Considering that Photoshop color sampling shows beyond doubt that it's blue, I tend to think that some people must have terribly miscalibrated monitors (or some kind of mild color blindness when it comes to seeing the level of blue coloration)
 
Literally the first thing I see as I walk into my office this morning is a few people huddled around my co-worker's monitor and they're all looking at a picture of the dress :lol
 
Horse Detective said:
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White and Gold. Edit; now I see light blue and gold

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Black and Dark Blue
 
Nabbis said:
It's something that's somewhat easily explained with biology. It is interesting, but not that interesting.
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i believe most of the push comes from the way people shared it; as if there is something wrong with you if you don't see what i see, making it controversial because we like to argue who is right.
 
Lord Error said:
People who see that blue shade as white may want to consider calibrating their monitors. It's like the most typical washed out photo of a blue color... I don't understand how's there even a discussion about this (and I fall for those checkerboard color optical illusions just the same as everyone else btw).
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I think you're missing the point. Just because it is obviously blue to you doesn't mean it is to everyone else too. In this case, some people look at the same image on the same screen and see different colours.
 
Can someone who sees it as white and gold post a picture next to it that contains the same kind of white that you're seeing?

I'm trying to figure out how the hell the blue in that dress can look white.
 
If I crop out the background, squint to the point where I can barely see, and lie really hard to myself, I can sort of see it as black and blue
 
Your eyes have retinas, the things that let you interpret color. There’s rods, round things, and cones that stick out, which is what gives your eye a textured appearance in the colored part. The “cones” see color. The “rods” see shade, like black, white and grey. Cones only work when enough light passes through. So while I see the fabric as white, someone else may see it as blue because my cones aren’t responding to the dim lighting. My rods see it as a shade (white). There’s three cones, small, medium and large. They are blue sensitive, green sensitive, and red sensitive.
As for the black bit (which I see as gold), it’s called additive mixing. Blue, green and red are the main colors for additive mixing. This is where it gets really tricky. Subtractive mixing, such as with paint, means the more colors you add the murkier it gets until it’s black. ADDITIVE mixing, when you add the three colors eyes see best, red, green and blue, (not to be confused with primary colors red, blue and yellow) it makes pure white.

—Blue and Black: In conclusion, your retina’s cones are more high functioning, and this results in your eyes doing subtractive mixing.

—White and Gold: our eyes don’t work well in dim light so our retinas rods see white, and this makes them less light sensitive, causing additive mixing, (that of green and red), to make gold.

**** UPDATE to prove this theory I turned my phone brightness from the lowest to highest and saw it switching from white and gold (at the lowest) to light blue and darker gold (at the highest) meaning people that see blue and black are more sensitive to light (better eyesight and not looking at the sun like your moms told you)

**Also if you see white and gold sometimes, blue and black another, or a combination of the two, your eyes are very average, and it could change because of YOUR rooms lighting or the tilt of your phone. This is the same manipulation they use for optical illusions
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So based on this the people who see white and gold have defective retinas?
 
The dress is black and blue.
The photo of the dress is dark brown with yellow tint in brighter areas and light blue, as demonstrated by every color picker.

Now why do you see white and gold?
Most likely blue hue fatigue, your eyes have been exposed during the time you are awake to bright lights like sun light/lit screens and so on, so when you look at the image unaware of which color you are looking at, the blue gets filtered. -> Chromatic adaptation
Concurrently the super exposed background with white and yellow tinting may further influence this perception. Which also explains that when you do see blue/brown (black) it's likely that you'll keep seeing that, even if the hue fluctuates. -> Colour constancy.

How to game the eye/brain to see gold/white?

Opponent process. Bombard the focused eye with blue and when the image shifts fast, your eyes will eliminate it from the next image.
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Focus on the black collar (neck area)/top of the image and stay focused there, in 30s or less you should be seeing the second image as gold/white (blueish).

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http://imgur.com/YpvzQhP < for a darker background.

The 1 second flash image is the original, same as op, you may test it after.
 
I can see the black and blue as well as white/gold now. But the blue looks very different from the other photos. In the others it's a deep blue, in the original it looks like a washed out bright blue.
To see the black/blue I need to look at it as if there are 3 light sources and not 2.
1) Outside
2) Ambient inside (mixed with outside?)
3) a spotlight right next to the dress
 
Costia said:
here is an example for my previous post:
A photo of a white shirt.
In the first half the white balance is adjusted for the sun and the part in the shade looks blue (like the dress in the original image)
In the second half the photo is adjusted for the shade - and now the color looks correctly colorless in the shade, while the part in the sun becomes yellowish.
This is exactly what is happening in the dress image. The original is adjusted for the sun white balance which makes the dress in the shade look blueish. When the white balance is corrected for the shade the dress in the shade looks correctly as white and gold (just like the shirt in the shade looked correctly colorless), while the outside becomes incorrectly yellowish.
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The dress isn't in the shade, and it's being lit up by a yellow light. Both of those make white and gold impossible.
 
Several hours later, still a blue and black dress.

I don't know what possible lighting cue could make people think it's white fabric under a shadow, or absorbing blue from the environment. It's being lit from above, and there's a piece of blatantly black and white cloth next to it.
 
People's eyes can get accustomed to the sunlight during the day which lowers yours sensitivity to dim lights hence why people see different when they come back to it. Now people can say this explanation and every explanation ever isn't sufficient to you , but can you consider at least more than nothing, which isn't based on" everyone besides me is wrong"? Also i hope this has been trampled to death already but is Horse Detective the source of all this stuff?
I learned that my eyesight is unreliable in middle school. I hope most people who freak out over this are not doubting their god-like eye-sights right now or they might commit crimes.
 
Evidently some news outlets posted the wrong answer last night, and so my wife went to sleep bragging about being right (her view: white and gold, mine: black and blue), and I graciously accepted it. Now that the truth is out and the vindication reversed, I have to carefully resist a very counterproductive "I was right after all" moment when I go home for lunch. Marriage will slowly teach you that being correct really doesn't matter that much in these cases.
 
Branduil said:
The dress isn't in the shade, and it's being lit up by a yellow light. Both of those make white and gold impossible.
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That's the confusing part.
If you look at it as if it is in the shade it will look as white/gold.
But if you look at it as if it is being lit by a separate yellow light it will look as blue/black.
Now i mostly see it as blue/black. Sometimes i can see the white/gold again. Really strange.
 
Lord Error said:
People who see that blue shade as white may want to consider calibrating their monitors. It's like the most typical washed out photo of a blue color... I don't understand how's there even a discussion about this (and I fall for those checkerboard color optical illusions just the same as everyone else btw).


Considering that Photoshop color sampling shows beyond doubt that it's blue, I tend to think that some people must have terribly miscalibrated monitors (or some kind of mild color blindness when it comes to seeing the level of blue coloration)
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I'm an amateur photographer with a MacBook Pro Retina who has used screen calibration hardware and software. I care deeply about the white balance of my photos, and always pay attention to any 'cast' that might be on a particular screen. For hours, I saw the image in the OP as a bright white and gold, both on my MacBook, my work PC, and my phone. Other people looking at those same screens saw blue and black. Then I suddenly did too.

Screens have absolutely nothing to do with this.
 
This photo has caused me to go insane the last 24 hours. I just couldn't understand how anyone saw white and gold! I thought I was crazy as my entire family see's white and gold..
 
Costia said:
That's the confusing part.
If you look at it as if it is in the shade it will look as white/gold.
But if you look at it as if it is being lit by a separate yellow light it will look as blue/black.
Now i mostly see it as blue/black. Sometimes i can see the white/gold again. Really strange.
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Look at the shadows cast by the ribbing and the jacket. There is clearly an overhead light source, if it was only backlit (or bounced off a wall behind the camera) you would not see these.
 
Mung said:
I think you're missing the point. Just because it is obviously blue to you doesn't mean it is to everyone else too. In this case, some people look at the same image on the same screen and see different colours.
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Griss said:
I'm an amateur photographer with a MacBook Pro Retina who has used screen calibration hardware and software. I care deeply about the white balance of my photos, and always pay attention to any 'cast' that might be on a particular screen. For hours, I saw the image in the OP as a bright white and gold, both on my MacBook, my work PC, and my phone. Other people looking at those same screens saw blue and black. Then I suddenly did too.

Screens have absolutely nothing to do with this.
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Yeah, I just read about it a bit and saw that BBC video. It's pretty fascinating, but on a more somber note, I guess it shows that a lot of people have a very mild color blindness then.
 
I saw it as blue and black this morning, then it was white and gold later when I saw it again. I was convinced there were two images. I scrolled up after reading the explanation and saw blue and black again!

It's definitely subjective. But when you see one, it seems so definite that the other seems impossible to be true.
 
Madrin said:
Can someone who sees it as white and gold post a picture next to it that contains the same kind of white that you're seeing?

I'm trying to figure out how the hell the blue in that dress can look white.
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Well...

APKmetsfan said:
been posted?

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...look at the left image here. When I'm 'seeing' it as white and gold, there's little difference between that white and the white of the spine of the case. It's maybe got a yellow cast to it, maybe a little darker than white. But when I'm 'seeing it' as being blue, then it's obviously just a washed out version of the blue in the dress on the right and nothing like white whatsoever, and contrasting it with the white spine of the 3DS case makes no sense whatsoever - they're completely different colours. The illusion is very, very strong.
 
aronnov reborn said:
This photo has caused me to go insane the last 24 hours. I just couldn't understand how anyone saw white and gold! I thought I was crazy as my entire family see's white and gold..
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Well be proud of yourself. You and I are in a minority of seeing black and blue, even though the dress is indeed black and blue. We're the superior race, the chosen ones.
 
Lord Error said:
People who see that blue shade as white may want to consider calibrating their monitors. It's like the most typical washed out photo of a blue color... I don't understand how's there even a discussion about this (and I fall for those checkerboard color optical illusions just the same as everyone else btw).


Considering that Photoshop color sampling shows beyond doubt that it's blue, I tend to think that some people must have terribly miscalibrated monitors (or some kind of mild color blindness when it comes to seeing the level of blue coloration)
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When most people are saying it's white, they're not saying the photo is white, they're saying the dress is white. The blue tint and dark gold/brown is what a white and gold dress would look like in the shade.
 
I don't understand why everyone is freaking out. Colors look different depending on the lighting conditions.

Light sources? How do they work?
 
I'm confused! At first the dress was white and gold but after scrolling down to read the explanation and then scrolling back up, it turned blue and black/dark gold! Have I spontaneously mutated?
 
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