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[EVO]

It is now my life goal to see that dress as black and blue.

 

[OraleeWey]

It is now my life goal to see that dress as black and blue.

.

 

[HvySky]

I cannot understand how anyone sees black and blue when they look at this.

I would have said the same thing, but as I was scrolling through the thread I saw the image again and this time it was black and blue. I did a double take and it was white and gold again... then it was black and blue again and now I can't stop seeing it that way.

What the fuck.

 

[SRG01]

Man, this is really messing with me. At first I could only see it as white and gold, but after color correcting it in Photoshop, I can now only see it as black and blue:

And now I can't see it as white and gold anymore. Hrrrrr.

Edit: AND NOW IT'S WHITE AND GOLD AGAIN WTF

Holy shit, if I move my eyes away, it's blue and black. If I move close to the screen, it turns white and gold O_O

 

[toohectic]

I cannot get that spinning 3D dancer to do anything but spin clockwise, is everyone pranking me even though this is my first post in this thread?

This video adds additional lines and details in order to show the two perspectives.
https://youtu.be/GYUPkkZOpCg

 

[Javaman]

I can see it as both colors depending on if my mind thinks she's in sunlight or shade. It's the designer's damn fault for using black string that isn't actually black.

 

[Whales]

Squares A & B are identical color.

Proof...

Spoiler

I hate this one so much

Took me 10 years to realize it

 

[ilikesanta]

This thread reprogrammed my brain, something is off, i can't trust anything I see.

Seriously, my brain feels different.

 

[To Far Away Times]

The dress started as White and Gold for me and now it's Black and Blue. Argh!

 

[HvySky]

It's back to white and gold and now I can change the color at will. Seeing it turn black and blue as I stare at it is really weird.

 

[Alcotholic]

This stupid fucking dress picture is going to be in school history books. I can't get over how much it exploded online I just have to laugh.

 

[seat]

I have a hunch that people who are more adept with their vision, like graphic designers or painters, would only see the dress as black and blue. Any studies on that?

 

[mcfrank]

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).

I see poorly white balanced white. Like they balanced for tungsten but the light is daylight.

 

[Thequietone]

So no one else sees it as blue and gold? I honestly can't see the black or white in that picture. I've been tested for color blindness multiple times. Once less than a week ago.

 

[Thequietone]

Heh. Let's put the three side-by-side:

Having fun yet? :>

Okay, the second one I see the black. The other two are blue and gold for me.

 

[Steel]

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 stare at the outstreched hand.

I would have said the same thing, but as I was scrolling through the thread I saw the image again and this time it was black and blue. I did a double take and it was white and gold again... then it was black and blue again and now I can't stop seeing it that way.

What the fuck.

I remember this thing when it first blew up and have seen it several times since. I've even seen the "explain the trick" picts. I can't see anything but white gold.

 

[Snagret]

I get how people can see the white part of the dress as blue. In the picture it has a bluish tint, at face value I can understand reading it as "blue".

I will never, ever be able to see the gold as "black" though. It's so obviously not even close to black in my eyes I just can't wrap my head around it no matter how many times people explain it.

 

[Laiza]

I have a hunch that people who are more adept with their vision, like graphic designers or painters, would only see the dress as black and blue. Any studies on that?

I'm a graphic designer and I saw it as white and gold for the longest time until I color-corrected the image myself.

Now I can see it either way.

The thing is, as a graphic designer I'm not really concerned about how different things can look under certain lighting conditions. As long as the graphics are clear and readable and the colors match the ideas the client(s) is(/are) trying to get across to the viewer, we're good. There's no complicated, excessive level of color precision required to work as a graphic designer (if anything, an eye for balance and spacing is far more important). You don't need to be able to tell whether the dress was supposedly black and blue or white and gold before the lighting cast color over it. It's just not a consideration.

You'd be better off asking interior designers and maybe fashion aficionados how they saw it, because they're more likely to be cognizant of this sort of thing.

 

[NullPointer]

still white and gold for me, sorry :/

Same here. And always is, though with a soft blue tint.

I'm colorblind though, so there's that.

 

[Piggus]

Dress looks white and gold to me, but I remember seeing it as blue and black on my boss' screen at work. How you see it could depend somewhat on your screen settings.

 

[y2dvd]

It has always been blue/black!

 

[alundra311]

LOL! Thread is now officially about the blue/black, white/gold dress.

Spoiler

It's blue/black.

 

[Conciliator]

So no one else sees it as blue and gold?

I've had a couple other people tell me they see blue and gold.

for whatever that's worth.

 

[oatmeal]

It still puzzles me.

This proves it's black and blue. On the right of this it's shady and dark, casting the blue tones over it. But the actual image is bright as fuck.

Suck it white and gold.

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

I hate this one so much

Took me 10 years to realize it

I took screenshots of both zoomed in tiles to prove that I'm not crazy.

They are the same color.

 

[Ballistic Peanut]

Man, this is really messing with me. At first I could only see it as white and gold, but after color correcting it in Photoshop, I can now only see it as black and blue:

And now I can't see it as white and gold anymore. Hrrrrr.

Edit: AND NOW IT'S WHITE AND GOLD AGAIN WTF

Reading through this tread all I could see was White and Gold. As soon as I saw this picture it turned to Black and Blue.

And now it's just flip flopping between the two.

 

[Nickle]

There's 16 circles in the picture.

I dont get it

edit: oh shit

 

[supernormal]

It still puzzles me.

Thank you. This explains in pictures what I always thought was going on. You either see a dimly lit White and Gold dress or a brightly lit Black and Blue dress.

 

[PunishedOkabe]

Crazy

 

[John Caboose]

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.

I'm pretty mych like this too. The actual colors in the picture (using photoshop color picker to check) is some sort of light blue and a more brownish kind of gold.

It still puzzles me.

If I look at only the small strip of dark area to the extreme left of the image and cover tge other areas I can see it as black and blue, but only then. If I look at the whole left dress I get the effect of it being a blue-tinted white and dark gold dress.

I read somewhere that people who are used to natural vs artificial light see the gold vs black dresses respectively.

Looking at the image above I interpret the lighting conditions as the dark areas being shadows to the light areas normal light. Whereas the people used to artificial lighting see the dark areas as the normal and the light areas as some sort of highlighted area.

Think of being outside in the sun and a shadow coming from a large tree vs being inside in the dark and light coming from a lamp.

Edit: link https://www.google.se/amp/amp.slate...e_s_why_people_saw_the_dress_differently.html

 

[NullPointer]

There's 16 circles in the picture.

OK, that is fucking bonkers.

Didn't see any at all for the longest, and then saw all of them and they disappeared just as quickly, and then I was only able to see one row or column of four at a time.

 

[Aquavelvaman]

Crazy

This still blows my mind

 

[alundra311]

Crazy

Unless I misinterpreted the text, the orange circles aren't the same sizes at all. I checked it using my finger.

Edit: Or is this a joke?

 

[Servbot24]

It's clearly white and gold - the white has a blue tint. It's so clearly this that it should not even be allowed to have another opinion. Yeah the lighting could change the dress in real life, but judging solely the image in front of us, it is clearly gold and white (with blue tint).

Evidence:

 

[brianmcdoogle]

It still puzzles me.

Only until that bit of dressed is dragged to the far right of the strip do I see it gold/white. I wonder if it is my colorblindness affecting it.

 

[Dishwalla]

I can see the white as blue, but I absolutely cannot see the black, no matter how I look at it it's gold.

 

[HTupolev]

The dress always looked gold/blue to me.

¯\_(&#12484_/¯

 

[whyamihere]

I'm mad about the dress again.

 

[Armaros]

A very old illusion that's been around the internet

Note: hold very still after it switches to take in the picture and then move to get the full effect.

 

[Rhaknar]

i'm not sure I feel confortable with the kind of can only be described as black magic, the forbiden arts if you will, that is going on in this thread :/

 

[Aquavelvaman]

 

[FyreWulff]

There's 16 circles in the picture.

strategy for this one: look at it like you would a Magic Eye image, the circles will pop out

 

[KHarvey16]

I thought they actually found the dress and it is black and blue.

 

[John Caboose]

I thought they actually found the dress and it is black and blue.

The dress is, yes. The image itself isn't.

 

[TheOGB]

That goddamn

Spoiler

overexposed blue and black

dress is gonna be the death of us all

 

[CronoShot]

I still cannot for the life of me make my perception of these change. First one always looks white and gold, second one always looks blue and black.

 

[Insaniac]

I still cannot for the life of me make my perception of these change. First one always looks white and gold, second one always looks blue and black.

Thats cause the first picture was taken with some terrible camera settings. The bottom picture has been adjusted to make it appear what it would have looked like in real life most likely.

What blows my mind is how easily the brain can be tricked to think that they are different colors.

Also fuck this thread. *Screams in mindfuckery*

 

[Arcia]

There's 16 circles in the picture.

Yeah?

Everyone else that has responded to this seems amazed, but for some reason the circles were immediately obvious to me. They were like the first thing I actually saw when I looked at the image, and I actually am struggling to not see them. I guess I have special eyes lol

 

[bitbydeath]

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 counted 26 spins then it switched, looks to be just a GIF, you don't need to concentrate, just wait out the change.

 

[thepotatoman]

The dress is, yes. The image itself isn't.

What the hell does that mean? The image is factually of a black and blue dress. What sort of camera turns white into blue?