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

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Alright, I'm out of this thread. I think I've found an explanation that's satisfying enough for me, and we're starting to go in circles.

It's a picture of a black and blue dress, that is all washed out or over-exposed or whatever. Because of that, the actual image has white-ish and gold-ish colors. The pixels, that is. So people who are trying to find the color of the actual pixels in the image see white and gold. While people trying to find the color of the actual dress that has been photographed see blue and black. Because the black and blue people know the actual color of the dress, their minds make the picture look black and blue. And it's a very persistent illusion. I still can't get back to white and gold. The people who say white and gold are correct that that is the color of the pixels in the image, even if it is not the color of the dress itself.

I think someone else made this comparison before with a picture of the White House, but it's the perfect explanation: If you look at a picture of the White House, in a shadow, it will look slightly blue in those parts. The pixels of that part of the image will even be blue. But the White House itself is still...white.

The only reason this is an argument is because people are arguing past each other without bothering the clarify definitions. I think most people would agree with this summary: The picture is a picture of a black and blue dress that, due to being over exposed, is represented in the image with white-ish and gold-ish pixels.

Alright, that's my speech. Have fun, guys.


This.

This is the correct answer.

But no one will listen and this is how the world is going to end.
 
If the dress was in fact black and blue, like the one posted so much, wouldn't the blue be a deeper, richer blue and not a pale lighter blue people keep saying it is? Same with the "black" wouldn't it be, you know, black and now a dark brownish/yellow/gold? Especially when a picture was taken of it in the shade.
 
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It all depends on your orientation, brightness and monitor. A TN display while looking a certain angle will produce a black and blue look. If I look straight at my monitor then it is white and gold, but if I slightly lean back then it turns blue and black or if i angle myself to the monitor differently then it changes.

We had someone call their parents over though, they said white and gold and he saw blue and black.

Although I don't think anyone sees pitch black. It's a brown.
 
Difficulty accepting that human beings have perceptual differences: the thread.

Same QUOTE in that screen capture on my previous post, different colors from my screen capture?

WHAT THE FUCK MAN

Am I going nuts? Take a look everyone.

Look at my post on the previous page.
 
Okay what the fuck, I looked at this thread 30 minutes ago and dress was white and gold, nos it's blue and black... Is OP changing picture, or...
 
So I can do this to switch between blue and white now, but I can't do this to switch between gold and black. I've never seen the black in that.

Focus on the bottom left of the dress where it's darkest. Completely cover the rest of the dress if you need to. You need to accept that as the base colour so when you see the rest you accept the gold is a highlight. I found squinting a bit at first helped as well. I found it difficult at first as well.

I should point out that the colours don't actually change. It's the perception of the base colour that changes.
 
this is completely unedited color-wise, just without the surroundings.

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i really don't care about the white/blue but the rest is clearly gold.

Experiment time!

For the White Gold blokes, the picture is over exposed to death, so to under expose it, squint really really hard so that you're basically looking through your eyelashes.


















Yep. Black and Blue.
 
I cannot see anything other blue or brown. Stop asking about what it would look like without exposure or say things like your mind is failing to compensate for anything.

I wanna say the actual colour of the image.

I was far more "white and gold" then "blue and black" because I imagined the "blue" meant like sonic blue. Black to me means black.

No one here means "black" black. Or "white" white. Just no way.

I also want people who say gold to actually find another image with the same gold colour. Hold to a lot of people is bright and Super Sonic gold.

The thing is, it's very important to distinguish whether you are able to contextualise the colour of the dress without the exposure, purely so we know where your arguments are coming from. You say that you don't understand why people are saying black, but is that just because you're interpreting the question as "What colours are you looking at"? Until we know what you think the dress looks like without exposure, we can't tell whether the difference in colour is down to the way you're processing the colour or the way you're interpreting the question.

So if you honestly can't understand how people are contextualising the image as black and blue, then all it means is that your eyes / brain aren't able to tell which way the colour has shifted based on colour context.

There's basically four kinds of people when it comes to being able to tell what colour the dress is IRL:

1) The people who are able to accurately tell how the dress colour has been shifted.
2) The people who can tell the colour is shifted, but aren't picking up the context right (they think it's been shifted colder making white seem more blue, where in actuality the opposite is true)
3) People who are a blank slate and their mind is constantly changing its interpretation of how the image should be.
4) People who can't do any of these.

There's obviously a second argument going on about what colour the actual pixels are, which is actually a lot less relevant because no one was actually arguing the true colour of the pixels.
 
So, let me get this straight.

The original dress is blue and black. However, the photo in the OP was modified in some way, and now it's "white" (a blueish white) and gold. If you pick the colors individually they ARE in fact white and gold.

The optical illusion is that, despite it being modified, some of us still see it as blue and black, right?

No, the original dress is white and gold. However the lighting conditions in the photo are bad (note how the light on the right is a shade of blue) and this messes with the colour temperature and tints the dress.

If your eyes compensate for this, the dress appears white and gold. If you only examine the shades you see and ignore the lighting context, the dress apparently appears blue and black.
 
The fact there is some actual anger and animosity in this thread is hilarious lol.

I'm more dreading the fallout from this. That one guy claiming it was part of experiment that proves it's affected by mood is the kind of shit that's annoying. Give it a day or two and there will be someone explaining it by dropping name quantum physics and toxins.
 
So, let me get this straight.

The original dress is blue and black. However, the photo in the OP was modified in some way (over-exposed apparently), and now it's "white" (a blueish white) and gold. If you pick the colors individually they ARE in fact white and gold.

The optical illusion is that, despite it being modified, some of us still see it as blue and black, right?

No. It's just a shitty, overexposed photo with awful white balance.
 
Rather than taking random colors have any of you also tried to invert the colors? Someone did before in this thread and the white portion you see turned a goldish color when inverted. The opposite of blue lands in the yellow spectrum.
 
So, let me get this straight.

The original dress is blue and black. However, the photo in the OP was modified in some way (over-exposed apparently), and now it's "white" (a blueish white) and gold. If you pick the colors individually they ARE in fact white and gold.

The optical illusion is that, despite it being modified, some of us still see it as blue and black, right?

The pixels in the photo are blue and dark gold/brown.

 
Can someone show me a picture anywhere that has a Blue and or black thing actually look lighter in the shade because of a photo?
 
Yeah, I'm very sure this is a perception thing now(I can make it switch between the two if I focus hard enough). I feel much better now lol. Fairly sure the original dress is blue, but the photo fucked with things where your brain isn't sure what to 'correct' it to.

I'm sad no one commented on my avatar having blue hair :c
 
The thread title is pretty clear on this front.

The colors of this photo

This "black and blue" nonsense would be right if the question was "what do you think the colors of the dress in this photo are?", like it is in the tumblr postings, but that's not the case in this thread! The colors are some sort of pale, wash out blue and a dirty, yellowish brown and their hex values make it obvious.
 
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