wookieofdoom
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Better genetics? I always knew I was awesome.
The colors of this photo will appear different to everyone. I think?
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Better genetics? I always knew I was awesome.
Memento_Mori15
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I just keep seeing blue and black. Tried looking at it yesterday in a dark & a light room, blue and black. I tried adjusting the brightness, still blue and black. Guess I will never see white and gold.
Benzychenz
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Did anyone post the xkcd on the subject?
These look the same to me anyway.
I can only see the image in the OP as white and gold.
Calamari41
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Ok. Not nearly as polarizing as I thought.
QuiteWhittle
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Top half is white and gold, bottom half is navy blue and gold. Weird.
entremet
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It's never changed for me.Hahahahaha
No, it has nothing to do with this. Or screen accuracy (I have been able to see both on a very poor screen at Uni for example), or genetics.
If you see white and gold the best thing I can tell you is to try scrolling up to the image.
So many of the same arguments. When it is common knowledge you can see both this will be the most legendary illusion ever,
I've seen in multiple displays and it's always been black and blue to me. The colors are washed out, though.
I see a washed out black with the right side being tinted yellow because of the light. Knowing that the light is changing its color and it is dark on the left side, I see a blue and black dress overall.
Always-honest
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Indeed.
well, if the question is:
What colour do you think the dress is under normal lighting?
then a lot of answers are possible.
If the question is:
What colours are in this photo?
Then the answer is not black and blue and certainly not white with gold.
Does the entire world have retinal retardation? There is even an image underneath that shows what deep blue and black is. And please don't say that these two images look the same to anybody.
So i'm guessing most people answer the question with the colours they THINK the dresss is under normal lighting conditions.
Muffdraul
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OK, I just experienced the perception flip. It looked white and gold before, now it looks like blue and brown. The key for me was focusing on the lower left, that other dress in the background which is obviously white and black and under good bright lighting.
Still don't see black though. Kinda dark brown at best.
Still don't see black though. Kinda dark brown at best.
Schweinehund
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White and gold.
my life is a lie.
my life is a lie.
Yep, it has nothing to do with the quality of eyesight, bad monitors or whatever. It's somewhat amusing seeing people who can see blue and black from the get go continuing to be asshole-ish about it. "Go get your eyes checked, you're all crazy", etc.Hahahahaha
No, it has nothing to do with this. Or screen accuracy (I have been able to see both on a very poor screen at Uni for example), or genetics.
If you see white and gold the best thing I can tell you is to try scrolling up to the image.
So many of the same arguments. When it is common knowledge you can see both this will be the most legendary illusion ever,
I found that it is hard to go back to white after you see blue though.
I saw blue and dark gold at one point but now the gold is way darker and looks like a washed out black.
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The Everyman
it's easier to see it as white and gold looking at the top half and blue and black looking at the bottom half.
id wager that more mobile viewers said white and gold because theyll the see the image cropped to the top half first.
Nah, people are thinking too hard about it really. When you see it the other way you will it isn't a full conscious decision.
GenericBadGuy
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It was white and gold all morning for me no matter what picture or brightness I used and now after lunch it's obviously blue and black and I can't see it any other way. Neat!
Really though I think it's so popular because people just love a good optical illusion or brain trick and this combines them all with social networking tossed in.
Really though I think it's so popular because people just love a good optical illusion or brain trick and this combines them all with social networking tossed in.
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The Everyman
i think so too, because we're asked what colour the dress is, not the hue values present in the jpeg.
Calamari41
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Interestingly, it looks like the kind of calico-ish print dresses on the rack behind it are indeed clearly black and white. Parts of them look gold, and other parts look black, depending on how the light is hitting its folds. Like if you look at the top of the calico dress, it looks to me like a clear black. If you look at the bottom, though, it blends in with the gold (that I see) in the main dress.
Always-honest
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no, i don't see that question. i hate it taht people can't ask a specific question.
The question in the op is what colours do you see.
Anyway, i realise i'm being waay too authistic about this.
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The Everyman
You seem displeased.
Dreams-Visions
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Ignatz Mouse
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The Everyman
Ah fair enough, well when a two tone dress is the focus of the image and we're being asked white and gold or black and blue, it's pretty much the same thing. But yeah, don't worry, it's all just good fun man
Napoleonthechimp
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The first time I saw it I thought it was light blue and brown/dull orange/gold/whatever and the millionth time? Light blue and brown/dull orange/gold/whatever.
Because that's what it damn well is!
For it to be black the RGB values would have to be balanced. If it was you'd get something that'd sit somewhere on this image:
Because that's what it damn well is!
For it to be black the RGB values would have to be balanced. If it was you'd get something that'd sit somewhere on this image:
entremet
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Still black and blue in both images.
I used to paint, of the artistic variety, a lot, so color theory and how light affect color is also something I have a lot knowledge of.
I can see the tinges of color, though. My brain still processes blue and black.
DiipuSurotu
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Mind blown
The blue did look the same to me but not the gold (I thought the right one was darker)Lord Error
Insane For Sony
I know what you mean, but no shade I've ever seen can turn a satin white dress into that dark of a shade of blue/purple, while also being in a place that's so brightly lit. Also, there's an actual white dress right next to it, that clearly shows there's not much of a shade there anyway.
XKCD comic misses the point too. This is not the same thing at all, as people looking at the same picture on the same screen and same lighting conditions, and are seeing different outcome. What he has in his comic is the same thing as the checkerboard illusion that is affecting everyone the same way. This is not affecting everyone the same way at all.
Souldestroyer Reborn
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Now it's blue and gold.
My eyes are well and truly fucked.
My eyes are well and truly fucked.
Doesn't work for me. I perceive the image as darker for half a second but that's it. In fact, if I try this on my shitty work monitor the catalog photo goes sorta whitegold from some angles.
I actually didn't bother reading the OP, just saw the image and assumed it was the same thing. Now that I took a looked, it's fine. The post she showed me said if you had a traumatic event going on in your life, then it changed the color you saw. We both rolled our eyes and just figured it was the lighting.
I forgot what thread I was in for a second and my heart skipped a beat.
Always-honest
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Yeah sorry, i realise that now, haha.Ah fair enough, well when a two tone dress is the focus of the image and we're being asked white and gold or black and blue, it's pretty much the same thing. But yeah, don't worry, it's all just good fun man
Fuck, i'm out
StylesClash
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I still see white and gold but when the dress is shown in other pictures it's clearly blue and black, it's just THAT picture that is white and gold to me.
Probably doesn't mean shit other than the colors on my monitor are better than most, but
http://www.dell.com/ed/business/p/dell-u2410/pd
96% Adobe RGB spectrum. I'd assume I had a better change to do this, but it still took quite a few back and forth adjustments before I was satisfied enough to press submit. Probably stared at this for 15 minutes with a couple of breaks to rest my eyes. Never worn glasses.
That said, only a very light greyish blue and definitely gold for me on that dress. YMMV.
I did this and got a 5. Apparently that's pretty good. And I saw white and gold.
good lord
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion
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"Light enters the eye through the lensdifferent wavelengths corresponding to different colors. The light hits the retina in the back of the eye where pigments fire up neural connections to the visual cortex, the part of the brain that processes those signals into an image. Critically, though, that first burst of light is made of whatever wavelengths are illuminating the world, reflecting off whatever youre looking at. Without you having to worry about it, your brain figures out what color light is bouncing off the thing your eyes are looking at, and essentially subtracts that color from the real color of the object. Our visual system is supposed to throw away information about the illuminant and extract information about the actual reflectance, says Jay Neitz, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington. But Ive studied individual differences in color vision for 30 years, and this is one of the biggest individual differences Ive ever seen." - x
I get that the internet obsesses about arbitrary stuff all the time but that people are sincerely and passionately arguing that it's conclusively one or the other is insane. your eyes are not broken. other people's eyes are not broken.
when facebook and tumblr discover the optical illusion books in their elementary school libraries and pediatricians offices everything is going to burn the motherfuck down
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion
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"Light enters the eye through the lensdifferent wavelengths corresponding to different colors. The light hits the retina in the back of the eye where pigments fire up neural connections to the visual cortex, the part of the brain that processes those signals into an image. Critically, though, that first burst of light is made of whatever wavelengths are illuminating the world, reflecting off whatever youre looking at. Without you having to worry about it, your brain figures out what color light is bouncing off the thing your eyes are looking at, and essentially subtracts that color from the real color of the object. Our visual system is supposed to throw away information about the illuminant and extract information about the actual reflectance, says Jay Neitz, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington. But Ive studied individual differences in color vision for 30 years, and this is one of the biggest individual differences Ive ever seen." - x
I get that the internet obsesses about arbitrary stuff all the time but that people are sincerely and passionately arguing that it's conclusively one or the other is insane. your eyes are not broken. other people's eyes are not broken.
when facebook and tumblr discover the optical illusion books in their elementary school libraries and pediatricians offices everything is going to burn the motherfuck down
Always-honest
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Indeed. How few people know this?
seems like the way the fabric of the dress is, the white light in the background goes through the fabric and gives it a white/really blow color through the blue parts, and a gold tinted look in the black parts. You would probably see it as white/light blue and gold in those conditions, from that angle. After all, the picture was taken because someone, from that angle, thought it looked white/gold.
cutmeamango
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It's not like that...
Focus on the black part on the top. Don't blink, don't look to the side, don't look to the blue just to check. When it switches, keep focused at the same point. You should notice it go white (blueish/grey)/gold in around 30 seconds.
Same here. Popped into this thread last night and it was white and gold. Now it is blue and black.
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