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[Tizoc]

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.

Oh my gooooooooooooooooooood

In a split second it turned out Black and white aaaaaaaagh.

 

[YesNOnoNOYes]

found itttt

 

[b&jy77VjiKn$#F]

can someone put the spinning girl figure with the helping tool to make her turn counter clockwise please

x ___ x

Here you go

edit: dammit xD

 

[bobbytkc]

Apparently I'm the only person that sees blue and gold??

That is what actually most people see. Gold with pale blue, which they interpret as white with a bluish hue.

Actually, judging by the RGB values, that is close to correct. It is yellow brown and pale blue.

To me, I think the confusion is more of people choosing to call colour they see as gold with a dark hue or black with a yellow hue, and white with a blue hue or pale blue with a whitish tinge.

Some people prefer to stress the light colours in their naming convention, and other people not. Nobody will say the colours are pure black or pure white if you push it. To me this is more of a word game than a real optical illusion.

 

[mclem]

The gif is a joke because the person manually altered the colours as it moves.

I thought that. So I tried it myself. It's absolutely playing fair.

 

[III-V]

Crazy

Crazy because it is not true. Orange circle on the right is larger. Also, they misspelled orange lol.

 

[mclem]

These inverse-face type illusions are super cool. They had some statues in an Uncharted game with inverse faces making it seem like they're looking at you.

...but in a video game, they could just make them look at you...

 

[YesNOnoNOYes]

Here you go

edit: dammit xD

XD

only slightly late, lia <3 the thought counts, though <3

 

[Herne]

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

But if I cut out the dress on the right side with my fingers, at a certain point it still turns yellow and white.

I call shenanigans.

 

[John Caboose]

...but in a video game, they could just make them look at you...

Of course they could, but I'm pretty sure they're not. I did a quick google search for them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkjuOSzy7Jk

 

[televator]

It still puzzles me.

Stupid, stupid monkey brain!

 

[Hoya Destroyer]

Looks white and gold, (in a low light environment) to me.

It boggles my mind that this became a thing despite Photoshop existing.

Good idea.
Photoshop (eyedropper tool) says its dark gold/washed out brown and faded type of blue. The faded blue could easily be seen as white in a low light area, so I am perfectly sane.

 

[gun_haver]

found itttt

wow. this one i haven't seen before. it totally works - look to the right frame, she moves counter clockwise, look to the left, she moves clockwise. i still can't do it on my own without looking, i've got too strong a bias towards clockwise.

 

[Lafazar]

The center crosses are the same shade of gray:

There is not a single red pixel in this image, only gray:

 

[III-V]

The center crosses are the same shade of gray:


There is not a single red pixel in this image, only gray:

Those crosses are nuts.

 

[RoadHazard]

What the fuck, when I was looking at this post on my phone at home an hour ago it was 100% blue and black. But now, at work, it's 100% white and gold. Thought it might be the different screens at first, but nope, now it's white and gold on my phone too. What the hell yo. My brain is nuts.

 

[RoadHazard]

This is bs. He's manually changing the colors

Nope, lol. I color-picked it in both locations:

EDIT:

 

[Mike M]

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

It doesn't change, it's a legit illusion.

 

[ss_lemonade]

wow. this one i haven't seen before. it totally works - look to the right frame, she moves counter clockwise, look to the left, she moves clockwise. i still can't do it on my own without looking, i've got too strong a bias towards clockwise.

I can make it spin the other way easily by cheating a bit and just looking at bottom reflection

 

[Regiruler]

found itttt

The heads are off :/

 

[Karanlos]

There is not a single red pixel in this image, only gray:

You're right about the red part, but not the gray part. From a quick test the pixels have less red than blue/green in them. White part of the berrys are cyan.

 

[Particle Physicist]

What the fuck, when I was looking at this post on my phone at home an hour ago it was 100% blue and black. But now, at work, it's 100% white and gold. Thought it might be the different screens at first, but nope, now it's white and gold on my phone too. What the hell yo. My brain is nuts.

This is what people who are adamant it's only one color combo don't understand. I've seen it as white/good once before but now it's only blue/black for me. It literally looked different. Its was definitely white/gold, but now it definitely looks blue/black. Its basically our brains interpreting the colors differently based on its surroundings.

 

[amaretto]

I've seen this so many times and it's always been black & blue to me.

Kinda jealous of the people in this thread who came back to it an hour ago and it changed color on them.

 

[Bluenoser]

I'll never understand how people saw/see that as blue

I think that's a troll pic. I've never seen the white and gold before, but I do on that picture, so I'm going to say that it's actually a white and gold dress.

 

[Captain Pants]

edit: Didn't see this one was already posted.

 

[Malyse]

Please don't troll this thread.

 

[Steel]

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.

They both look white gold for me. That image cannot be edited without literally painting over it for me to see anything but white gold.

 

[Brian Griffin]

Crazy because it is not true. Orange circle on the right is larger. Also, they misspelled orange lol.

Yep, but I think there is a real version of this where the are the same size but the blue circles trick your brain into seeing them different. Someone just decided to change the image to fuck with people.

Please don't troll this thread.

Yeah this. Or at least spoiler tag weather it's a fake one of not.

 

[Izuna]

The closure of the other thread means that this dress is now taking over this thread.

 

[Rookhelm]

You most definitely have to cross your eyes, so you're not doing it wrong. The figure in the image though should pop out with the background back behind it. The idea is if you stare at it, your eyes will cross naturally the correct way to see it, but some people can't do it.

so, for the Magic eye things, it's not that your eyes are crossing...your eyes are diverging.

If you cross your eyes, you'll get a negative of the image where the subject is cut into the background instead of popping out from it

 

[Ty4on]

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.

I'm guessing this has been replied to a million times by now, but anyways.

The human visual system does not work by just pulling in whatever the eyes are seeing into your mind. Instead the visual system is trying to figure out the context and what the actual objects themselves look like.

Imagine you see a white stone in bright sunshine and next to it you see an identical white stone in the shade. They're obviously very different visually from the big change in light, but your visual system compensates so you can see they're both the same shade of white.

The blue/black or white/gold is similar, but for color.
In bright sunlight the light around us is "white", but the shade is mostly lit up by the sky and significant more blue. Late when it's dusk the sun is much more yellow than at noon.

This all means colors shift a lot so your brain had to compensate. That gif with the dress has it being blue and black in very yellow light and white and gold in very blue light. The original picture worked because it was very overexposed do the white balance in the camera went mad and made it far too yellow and people who see it as black and blue "fix" the off white balance.

 

[RustyNails]

Why did this change to white and gold. This is hurting my brain.

 

[SecretMoblin]

I quite like this take on the classic "depth perception" ones

Spoiler

 

[Sweetjebus]

The borders of this picture are black. The dress in the picture is gold and blue.

 

[hyp3rlink]

*Elaine looking at rotating tires*

 

[Morrigan Stark]

There's 16 circles in the picture.

Well.... yeah? I saw them instantly. And I can't see Magic Eye for shit no matter what (I'm still convinced those are a practical joke the whole world is playing on me).

 

[jman2050]

I don't like the implication in some posts that stuff like the dress and other optical illusions means our eyes/brain are "busted" or whatever terminology you want to use.

There's very good reasons for the various tricks and adjustments our brains make on the images our eyes capture and that the illusions are designed to target. Could you imagine if we perceived what our eyes see simply as what those images are rather than what those images are meant to represent? Or I guess put it another way, if a snapshot image of a black and blue dress under bright conditions and a snapshot image of a white and gold dress under dark conditions end up having the exact same colors, isn't is pretty handy that our brains can immediately contextualize what we see and make a determination to correct our perception of the colors to what they "should" be? If all these optical illusions are fooling you then be happy, your eyes and brain are working exactly as they should!

...Except for the dress of course, if you see white and gold there then see a doctor immediately before your eyes explode into a bloody mess.

 

[Peltz]

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:

Go clockwise!!!!

 

[Kadayi]

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

I wouldn't say it's objective, but that's certainly the colours I see. A bluish white and gold.

 

[Switch Back 9]

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

Take your "objectivity" outta here you whacko. Shit is blue.

 

[Suikoguy]

It still puzzles me.

Thanks for sharing that,
It helps illustrate why it was seen differently.

It's a similar concept with shadow placement of elevation maps, we intuitively expect light to come from above from prior experience. If the shadow direction is backwards we see it as valleys instead of mountains.

 

[Chainsawkitten]

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

Every single camera in the world if it's white balanced for artificial light but you shoot in sunlight.

 

[Occam]

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:

Thank you. As I said, you can objectively measure it. Many people use a mental filter instead of seeing what is actually there. That explains a lot about our world.

 

[Grizzle_Dat]

There's 16 circles in the picture.

I see 20 ( 5 per row)

 

[Steel]

There's 16 circles in the picture.

When I first saw the picture I didn't see them, but now I can see them all. Huh.

I see 20 ( 5 per row)

There's only 4 per row though?

 

[Absoludacrous]

Jesus, it's always been white and gold for me, but after looking at some of the other pictures it switched, and now it's only blue and black. I can't make it go back to white and gold. My whole world is upside down.

 

[Grizzle_Dat]

When I first saw the picture I didn't see them, but now I can see them all. Huh.



There's only 4 per row though?

Then your not looking at it right

 

[hobozero]

 

[Myriadis]

My favorite is this:
Focus on the cross in the middle.

 

[Nimajneb]

Thank you. As I said, you can objectively measure it. Many people use a mental filter instead of seeing what is actually there. That explains a lot about our world.

100% of people use a "mental filter", that's how human vision works. The brain has built in color correction, otherwise you'd never be able to tell what color something is in due to different lighting conditions. That's the whole point of the illusion, the literal color of the dress is irrelevant.