perfectchaos007
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I finally saw the black. Step away from your computer screen for about 15 minutes then come back. That did the trick for me.
The colors of this photo will appear different to everyone. I think?
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I finally saw the black. Step away from your computer screen for about 15 minutes then come back. That did the trick for me.
Right, which is what this debate has come down to, the wording of the question.
If it's, what is the actual color of the dress? The answer is black and blue.
If it's, what are the actual color values in the digital picture of the dress. The answer is blue and gold/brown.
There are no other answers.
There are still some people who think the real life actual dress is white and gold though and that's just lunacy.
BadAss2961
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Ha, looking at the picture again, I don't know how I ever saw white. The lighting in the picture is fucked, but I can tell now that the dress is blue and black. Looking at the lower part of the dress helps.
titiklabingapat
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I wish I can see the white and gold. I tried various screen sizes, brightness and various ambient lighting and all I still see is black and blue.
Backfoggen
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Motherfucker I've seen this and now I went back to the original and I see the black and blueSeeing it as a whole. White and Gold.
Seeing lower half only. Blue and black.
If I keep that lit top part in view for too long it turns back to white and gold
Demoncarnotaur
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"White" and gold for me.
"White" actually is a light blue, but to my eyes it looks like the dress was white, and the blue hue is caused by the way the photo was taken.
Perhaps I am wrong about the dresses actual colors, but going into photoshop it's easy to see the photos colors are light blue and gold.
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Are people saying Blue and Black able to see the that image is light blue/gold, but assume the dress itself would be blue black? Or do they actually see blue/black?
"White" actually is a light blue, but to my eyes it looks like the dress was white, and the blue hue is caused by the way the photo was taken.
Perhaps I am wrong about the dresses actual colors, but going into photoshop it's easy to see the photos colors are light blue and gold.
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Are people saying Blue and Black able to see the that image is light blue/gold, but assume the dress itself would be blue black? Or do they actually see blue/black?
whiteninja
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Looking at it up close on my monitor it seems kinda blueish and gold. But as I got up to leave and looked back at it at a distance it was totally black and blue.
Wyndstryker
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Basically the best way to describe this is that the brain has filters on post processing data and they sometimes screw up in autocalibration.
Shpeshal Nick
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Then we agree. Good.
Storm Raider
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Thank you.
Benzychenz
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But people look at the digital picture and apparently see black. That's what I can't understand.
borborygmus
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Something like that.
My walls are white, and yet they look like this because of the current lighting in my room ( edit: and the apparently shittastic camera on my phone ;] ):
I guess you would see this as light brown/beige, whereas I interpret this as a white wall (in this case, because I know that it's a white wall - and in the case of the dress, it's just a guess that my brain automatically makes about the true color of the fabric, accounting for lighting/shading).
Well that's when your brain starts applying it's knowledge of lighting and the context of the image.
If you perceive the dress as being covered in a shadow, the blue looks white and the gold looks gold.
If you perceive the dress as being hit by indoor lighting, the gold looks black and blue looks blue.
When you look at it purely objectively like the color picker, yeah it's blue and gold, but that's not how our brains tend to work.
I want to help you guys a little. As someone who has seen it both ways....
Actual image is blue and brown.
When you see White and Gold, the blue is very white
When you see Blue and Black, the Brown is very black
Keep at it guys, stop looking at the edited photos. I have noticed that after them I tend to see Blue and Black more. White and Gold happens only when I stop looking at the image after a while. And if I look at the original too much, I see the actual colours of the pixels.
Actual image is blue and brown.
When you see White and Gold, the blue is very white
When you see Blue and Black, the Brown is very black
Keep at it guys, stop looking at the edited photos. I have noticed that after them I tend to see Blue and Black more. White and Gold happens only when I stop looking at the image after a while. And if I look at the original too much, I see the actual colours of the pixels.
It would be black.
Crushed blacks mean that the grey would show as black.
If you are talking about the screenshots, it turns black to grey but this is a silly issu that doesn't happen while you play the game.
Last Hearth
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I see light blue and gold, but if I just look at the bottom half I see the blue and black.
So it's very weird, as I move the picture up and down my screen the color changes.
WTF is going on.
So it's very weird, as I move the picture up and down my screen the color changes.
WTF is going on.
borborygmus
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Well that's when your brain starts applying it's knowledge of lighting and the context of the image.
If you perceive the dress as being covered in a shadow, the blue looks white and the gold looks gold.
If you perceive the dress as being hit by indoor lighting, the gold looks black and blue looks blue.
When you look at it purely objectively like the color picker, yeah it's blue and gold, but that's not how our brains tend to work.
Great explanation.
I guess the super bright environment in the background of the dress photo makes my brain assume what is shown in the right side image that you posted.
edit: Additionally, according to how my brain works, your left image seems unrealistic to me, because I have a hard time imagining a black surface or fabric reflecting that much golden light, whereas it's much easier for me to believe that a white fabric is giving off some blue radiosity or is simply under a shadow.
It's the exact same as the discussion being presented here.
Are we talking about the colors of the original dress, or the absolute, objective RGB values being presented on the screen including all processing (crushed blacks in the case of xbone and overexposure in the case of OP's picture), or the ability for a person to interpret the color 'correctly' despite the objective errors in the processing?
It's not a jab at xbone or exposure or either black/gold party. Just another way of putting it which people on GAF are maybe a little more familiar with.
edit: And derp, I actually meant the other way round. Is a dark gray texture black, or dark gray with crushed blacks. I should stop posting on GAF at 3AM.
It's actually a finely crafted chainmail dress made of titanium, platinum and adamantine. The cloth over top is just to give a lived-in look, but the metals underneath cause the irregularities in the lighting, hence the ever changing perception of it from person to person. Creepers.
/studies
/studies
killer rin
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Its clearly Blue/Black. Don't see how anyone is getting White/Gold
Yup, that's exactly how my brain assumed it was at first too. It clearly looked like a white dress under a shadow or some shade. When I finally saw it the other way my head exploded.
No no no no no, no one interprets crushed blacks as normal. You completely misunderstand what that is.
All of the discussion from the 50 pages of this thread I have been here has been:
- I see White Gold!
- I see Blue Black!
- Whut?
- How can you see black?
- How can you see white?
- The actual dress IRL is Blue Black, see?
- Um no, the actual colours in the image are Light Blue and Brown, see?
- Hey guys, it changed to Blue Black!
- Hey guys, it changed to White Gold!
The past 24 pages has been people coming into the thread coming with a mixture of the above. I have a notepad list of everyone who is arguing it cannot be seen the other way and checking to see if they see it before the thread gets locked.
I plan on keeping the names so that in a couple weeks (maybe just one) I will PM them and ask if it ever changed.
It's annoying that the OP wasn't updated to show that it was an illusion and it changes for people. That story that certain people's eyes are worse if they see White Gold, or average if they see it switch is complete BS.
Guys, stop trying to understand the science behind it if you want to see the other way around. Just check back at the image after some time. When it changes for me I am not forcing it. Someone earlier in this thread gave a good tip which is to see the White/Blue as the other colour.
IcyBlueStrawberry
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When I first opened the thread it was clearly white and gold. After reading the first page of responses and returning to the top, it was clearly black and blue.
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
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