The Shogun
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Holy shit in that pic its now white and gold for me again.
WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING
The colors of this photo will appear different to everyone. I think?
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Holy shit in that pic its now white and gold for me again.
WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING
Nope. Still the same white and gold. Maybe I should try smacking myself really hard in the face?
Not in a way that I would say affects the actual perceived color. It just looks the way a bright white looks in the shade. If I were painting it, I would probably add some blue and black to get the white to look properly shaded, but I would still immediately recognize the color as "white."
Definitely. You can switch between the interpretation of this photo at will. It's all about creating reference points for shades and colors, has nothing to do with "better eyes".
I wonder if people still see white and gold on this.
LookAtMeGo
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WHAT IS REALITY!?
wtf, 76% of people say it's white and gold?
Uncannily, that looks white and gold because the background has been taken out of it.
EDIT: FFFFFUUUUUUU THE ORIGINAL HAS CHANGED ON ME AGAIN
finally, one of us...
my world will never be the same.
How? It's clearly a darker blue than the blue sky behind Max!
Welcome to the winning side.
I been said that since page 1
So I happened to be on FB where someone posted this photo with the same question and tagged a friend so it showed up on my feed.
The photo there was blue/black. Come back to check this. Nope, still white/gold to me. Upped the size on FB. Nope still blue/black there and white/gold here.
"This can't be the same photo. I'll take it into Photoshop and prove this is all a trick!"
Pasted the FB one. Blue/black. Head back to GAF, still see white/gold...paste it on Photoshop. What the hell? The colors are now blue/black.
Go back to GAF...it's now blue/black. I can't see white/gold anymore. I changed nothing on my screen.
Witchcraft. Conspiracy. Aliens.
The photo there was blue/black. Come back to check this. Nope, still white/gold to me. Upped the size on FB. Nope still blue/black there and white/gold here.
"This can't be the same photo. I'll take it into Photoshop and prove this is all a trick!"
Pasted the FB one. Blue/black. Head back to GAF, still see white/gold...paste it on Photoshop. What the hell? The colors are now blue/black.
Go back to GAF...it's now blue/black. I can't see white/gold anymore. I changed nothing on my screen.
Witchcraft. Conspiracy. Aliens.
If you see black and blue you are
No matter upside down, on my phone, on a small screen, big screen, filtered, it is white and gold.
Just give it a few minutes. Then you'll be ONE OF US.
ONE OF US
H.Protagonist
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White and gold... ;_;
Yep. This has to be one damn stupid thread, unless I've been missing something browsing these last few pages. The "white" is incredibly cool, and isn't technically #ffffff, so I can understand where you'd say it's blue or white. But I don't see how this has to do with super functioning cones and rods and all that nonsense. At best it's related to the optical illusions where you can put the same shade of grey in between two different contrasty tones and the grey will appear to be two different colors.
Stupid Tumblr pseudoscience.
evilromero
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Photoshop confirmed brownish gold and a lighter bluish hue (that's easy to interpret as white due to shade/shadow).
LookAtMeGo
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I want to see white and gold but I cant. 
This now makes me question so much about the world. I hooked up my XBox One to show the image on IE this whole time, I haven't even refreshed. whoaaa
The Shogun
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It actually just made me switch from B&B for a while to W and Gold
This is hands down the craziest illusion I've ever seen period
HIGH DEF JEFF
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I looked at this thread while on the bus, no lights. I saw white and gold.
At work, in the bright office. Blue and black.
Crazy shit.
At work, in the bright office. Blue and black.
Crazy shit.
Orbis Tabula
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Ganzlinger
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Still looks white and gold for me... damn.. I want to see the damn sorcery!
Vulcano's assistant
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don't buy the explanation in the OP, you will see it blue after a while.
I suspect what's going on is that the overexposure causes the bright light in the upper-right corner to be interpreted as the only light source. If it's sunlight coming from far behind the dress, which is a natural interpretation for the picture in the OP, then the front of the dress is in shadow. People will interpret the color of the dress as some color in shadow.
In the upside down picture, it's not as natural to interpret the light in the lower left corner as sunlight coming from far behind the dress. If the dress is lit from the front, people will interpret its color as the color under direct light.
You can see this sort of effect really clearly if you take a cube under even lighting and paint one face as if it's in shadow. Moving a small colored object from one face to the other produces an apparent change in the color of the object.
In the upside down picture, it's not as natural to interpret the light in the lower left corner as sunlight coming from far behind the dress. If the dress is lit from the front, people will interpret its color as the color under direct light.
You can see this sort of effect really clearly if you take a cube under even lighting and paint one face as if it's in shadow. Moving a small colored object from one face to the other produces an apparent change in the color of the object.
bruuuuh it's not even an illusion
take a selfie under a really bright yellow light
is your skin actually yellow
no
there you go
no you don't. Its starting to color change before my eyes. the bright spot at the top of the photo and now my head hurts.
The Shogun
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No idea. I swear to god on my very life I'm not lying.
Silent_Ocarina
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I see white and gold. I've never seen the blue and black, but I know it's somehow there because randomly asking friends around me without hinting to any particular color yields equal answers of "white and gold" and "blue and black."
Ecto311
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Never - even if it did change I wouldn't tell a soul.
This could be a real picture of our house and my extended families. Everyone is going ape shit.
Me and my daughter see white/gold and my wife and her sister see blue/black. My mom sees light blue and brown.
H.Protagonist
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I will stare until my tears wash away the false god.
The Silver
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MOTHERFUCKING FUCK OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND HOLY, it's black now, original image is blue and black, I'VE SEEN THE LIGHT.
why is it that hardly anyone is able to go back to white and gold
why is it that hardly anyone is able to go back to white and gold
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