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[III-V]

It is not possible for me to see anything other than white and gold. I have never seen blue or whatever people claim.

Squares A & B are identical color.

Proof...

Spoiler

This is absolutely true that they are the same color. I took a small screenshot of each square. But why does this work? That is insane.

 

[Timeaisis]

White and gold.

Yep. Us indy avatars gotta stick together.

 

[godofcookery]

It is not possible for me to see anything other than white and gold. I have never seen blue or whatever people claim.

Try and scroll the top half or 2/3rds of the picture off screen and just view the bottom on its own. See if that changes anything.

 

[Oberon]

Still blue

This is why world peace can't happen. People look at white and gold and say "blue"

 

[googleplex]

The worst for me are the 3d spinning dancers where you have to try reeeeeeaaaallly hard to make it spin the other way.

This one:

Just focus on where her heel touches the floor and you can get it to spin the other way at will.

 

[Einchy]

I had never seen that one, OP. That's a good one.

 

[Desperado]

I know objectively that it's blue and black but I absolutely CANNOT see this picture as anything but white and gold. I've tried all the tricks people have said to see blue/black. I can't do it.

 

[More_Badass]

Pretty sure this is some long-running joke I'm not in on because I have NEVER seen it as white and gold.

Nope, it's a legit illusion. I see it as white and gold

 

[googleplex]

Blue and Gold... Every time.

 

[Einchy]

For those who can't see white and gold, imagine a piece of paper with a shadow over it. It's not white-white but more of a grey color because it looks like a white dress with poor lighting.

 

[Ruruja]

I know objectively that it's blue and black but I absolutely CANNOT see this picture as anything but white and gold. I've tried all the tricks people have said to see blue/black. I can't do it.

It is not possible for me to see anything other than white and gold. I have never seen blue or whatever people claim.

Open it up in photoshop and eyedropper the white and see what it shows in the small square, maybe that'll help your brain link the two.

 

[III-V]

Try and scroll the top half or 2/3rds of the picture off screen and just view the bottom on its own. See if that changes anything.

That did not work. I did take a very close up screenshot of the (light) white part of the dress, and it does appear to be light blue. The gold (dark) portion of the dress is still golden brown.

Are the two colors supposed to interplay as well?

Open it up in photoshop and eyedropper the white and see what it shows in the small square, maybe that'll help your brain link the two.

Yes, I did something similar. White is light blue, for certain, but it is not what my eyes perceive. Also, the gold still remains gold or gold brown, but not black.

 

[kingkaiser]

I know objectively that it's blue and black but I absolutely CANNOT see this picture as anything but white and gold. I've tried all the tricks people have said to see blue/black. I can't do it.

Do you wear goggles?

Because I do, and when I put them off and try to focus on the picture, despite my horrible shortsightedness the gold slowly turns darker and darker. Then I put my goggles back on and BAAM it turned blue and black.

 

[themagicalkitsune]

I had this as desktop wallpaper all the way from 8th grade to 12th cause I thought it looked cool. I probably fucked my eyesight for life.

 

[Sakar]

It still puzzles me.

 

[wandering]

I've heard the dress picture explained as people interpreting it as being cast in either yellow or blue light, but it doesn't make sense to me because the environment around the dress is obviously a warm yellow hue.

 

[NullPointer]

OK, this broke my brain.

Silly broken brain!

 

[Plum]

People see it differently depending how their eyes are made up. The perceived colours are bit difficult to discern for the brain, so they just choose to go with a certain 'whitebalance', while other people's brain will choose the other way around.

That's too sensible an explanation. I don't believe it.

Nope, it's a legit illusion. I see it as white and gold

How can I trust your judgement as a mod when you're so objectively wrong?

 

[sixteen-bit]

Mindfucked...

 

[gruenel]

It still puzzles me.

That cutout is changing colors halfway right?
Or are human eyes really this shitty? 🤔

 

[Ceres]

This is absolutely true that they are the same color. I took a small screenshot of each square. But why does this work? That is insane.

A surrounded by lighter and B surrounded by darker squares cause you to think the one square is darker than the other. Along with the soft edge shadow that gradually darkens the area around B which our vision generally ignores to recognize it as it's real color, which is the lighter square we see outside of the shadow

 

[norm9]

 

[Rhaknar]

 

[VDenter]

Black and Blue and nothing else.

 

[FTF]

It still puzzles me.

Spoiler

Edit: It's always white and gold for me...the smaller the pic and farther I stand back from my screen though the white does get more blue

 

[ibyea]

That cutout is changing colors halfway right?
Or are human eyes really this shitty? ��

Nah, it's not the eyes. Brain is pretty much photoshopping all the sensory images to make things go more efficiently.

 

[cyba89]

I saw it as white and gold first but later I saw it blue and black and after that I can never go back.

Fuck this crazy witchcraft.

 

[DopeyFish]

Doge should share his drink

 

[hipbabboom]

I just hope mods lock this thread so we'll have evidence of which posters practice witchcraft when it comes time to burn the heretics.

 

[Einchy]

It still puzzles me.

I think it's cus some people think the dress is under low lighting, so it's in the shadows, while some others see that the picture is actually just overexposed to hell.

 

[Bitanator]

It still puzzles me.

After watching this and looking at the dress again it is black and blue and no longer white and gold

 

[Soapbox Killer]

The worst for me are the 3d spinning dancers where you have to try reeeeeeaaaallly hard to make it spin the other way.

This one:

RIGHT TO LEFT always.


The dress is Gold and White.

 

[pswii60]

Woman with her back turned or side profile of an old woman?

Looks like anime.

As for the dress, those saying white and gold are still trolling right? How anyone can see anything other than blue (and black) still baffles the hell out of me.

 

[III-V]

The worst for me are the 3d spinning dancers where you have to try reeeeeeaaaallly hard to make it spin the other way.

This one:

Cool she will spin clockwise or counter clockwise. Like someone pointed out, just watch the shadow to switch it up.

 

[Occam]

I don't get it. This is objectively gold and white, the white has a slight bluish tint.

 

[axisofweevils]

 

[DonShula]

Squares A & B are identical color.

Proof...

Spoiler

WITCHCRAFT

 

[FyreWulff]

this one never worked on me because i've had to work with graphics displays so much i can just tell this is an overexposed blue and black dress.

 

[BakedTanooki]

The worst for me are the 3d spinning dancers where you have to try reeeeeeaaaallly hard to make it spin the other way.

This one:

I could switch the direction before, but now it's clockwise forever.

 

[rjinaz]

It still puzzles me.

See now that is interesting.

I fall right in the middle, I see like a sky blue and gold on the dress.

Dammit, I'm a day walker.

 

[Occam]

this one never worked on me because i've had to work with graphics displays so much i can just tell this is an overexposed blue and black dress.

But the colors that are shown in the image are gold (brownish/yellowish metallic) and white (bluish/grayish, due to being in the shadow). This isn't subjective.

 

[III-V]

See now that is interesting.

I fall right in the middle, I see light blue and gold on the dress.

When I took a small sample of each color, that is what I see as well. It is light blue and golden brown. Looking at the dress in the photo I always see white and gold.

 

[rjinaz]

When I took a small sample of each color, that is what I see as well. It is light blue and golden brown. Looking at the dress in the photo I always see white and gold.

I think I read an article where the actual colors are light blue and golden brown. So basically my eyes see what is there, they don't try and adjust the colors based on shading or whatever.

 

[Jotaka]

That cutout is changing colors halfway right?
Or are human eyes really this shitty? 🤔

Yes, it's "shitty"... it's not the eye, it's your brain doing interpretation of information that your eye got.... and it is kinda lazy and use old models/pattern to get the answer... after you got AN answer, you can't easily unsee.

 

[OraleeWey]

It still puzzles me.

This is bs. He's manually changing the colors

 

[gforguava]

The thing with the dress I've always wondered: the people who say white instead of blue, are they saying what they think the dress actually is in the real world or are they saying what color they see from the picture? Because from the picture it is objectively blue(random pick of the color got me #8594bf).

 

[Occam]

The thing with the dress I've always wondered: the people who say white instead of blue, are they saying what they think the dress actually is in the real world or are they saying what color they see from the picture? Because from the picture it is objectively blue(random pick of the color got me #8594bf).

Yep, that is precisely the color I see. A bluish gray.

 

[rjinaz]

The thing with the dress I've always wondered: the people who say white instead of blue, are they saying what they think the dress actually is in the real world or are they saying what color they see from the picture? Because from the picture it is objectively blue(random pick of the color got me #8594bf).

It's what the brain thinks the dress actually looks like in the real world. It's trying to compensate through the discoloration. They look and they see black or white, but those colors aren't actually there in the actual picture.

 

[farisr]

The thing with the dress is, the colors in the image are objectively a greyish blue (which I can see people just simply calling white in contrast to the other color) and a brownish-gold color (can easily be checked by photoshop and color picker)

The folks seeing black and blue have their brains/eyes autocorrecting basically for the exposure. Adding in info that is actually not there, leading to the actual correct real life result coincidentally.

 

[Jotaka]

This is bs. He's manually changing the colors

Use you hand and hide the yellow parts in the dress.