honestly, its not. I showed it to my coworkers who had no idea about it last night they saw mostly white and gold but a few saw blue and black.
The colors of this photo will appear different to everyone. I think?
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honestly, its not. I showed it to my coworkers who had no idea about it last night they saw mostly white and gold but a few saw blue and black.
TheDarkKnight774
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I clearly see blue and black. You others are crazy
b&jy77VjiKn$#F
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This is correct. In Vietnamese, green and blue are generally called "xanh." More precisely, green is called "xanh lá" (lá means leaf), while blue is called "xanh dương" (dương can mean water or the sea).
YianGaruga
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This is just a viral ad campaign for the next season of Orange is the New Black right?
Is this amiibo white and gold or black and blue?
(sorry if its already been posted, i checked the last 10 pages and nothing)
(sorry if its already been posted, i checked the last 10 pages and nothing)
Mikey Jr.
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People who see it as white and gold, this is what is happening. Your brain is interpreting the light part of the dress as being white with a cool shade. Your brain is overcompensating on this. Just like how this house is white and navy, but if you really looked the image colour palette, it is actually just light blue. You just understand that it's only the lighting that is doing that. I ask you what colour it is, you will say white and navy.
People who see it as Blue and Black, you are NOT really seeing black, that is the illusion. Zoom in, look at the palette, you are seeing the brown as black because your brain thinks the brighter part of the image should be a darker blue.
This is why when you see the original dress, its saturated dark blue doesn't surprise you. The actual image doesn't have that colour, but that is what your brain interprets.
It is fascinating. The choices White And Gold, Blue And Black, coupled with knowledge of what it actually is and knowledge of what exposure does, is causing such a heated argument.
"How is it white?"
"How is it black?"
We never hear, "how is it blue?"
Or, "How is it gold?"
The illusion is whether or not our brains decide to assume the light blue should be darker or lighter in better lighting.
My GF is on Black and Blue and from this thread I know it is very hard to see it the other way if that is what she sees the first time, but at the very least I was able to make her understand that the Black lace she sees is not the actual colour.
I think seeing Blue and Brown is important to understanding that it can be seen another way.
It's not about convincing yourself, or trying to understand how the colours can be different. You will be able to see it differently, and when it does you won't be able to explain it. Blue and Black have more scientific backing and they swear by it far more than White and Gold.
I think this is because we are used to calling dark colours "blacks" more in society, as we rarely get to see actual black. Making us less sensitive to changes in dark colours.
Nice writeup.
I still see gold and white.
What is fucking my brain is how someone can see gold, while someone else sees black. Those don't even seem close.
ShemhazaiX
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It's black shiny fabric under a yellow tinged light source. What people are calling gold is the yellow light bouncing off of it. No one actually thinks the RGB value of the trim is actually black.
edit for clarity: The contention arises from people not realising that the light source is yellow tinged / over exposure shifted the image yellow. What people are looking at is blue shifted towards white / yellow. What a lot of people are mistakenly doing is thinking they're looking at white but shifted blue.
Napoleonthechimp
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Nope.
The only way I can rationalise the insanity in this thread is that we must all be talking about two different images.
Indeed, they have no idea what they're talking about. Claiming to see relief in the retina.. whuut haha.
It's not about understanding, otherwise I wouldn't be able to switch like a few other gaffers here. You are trying to explain what the exposure is doing, but you're missing the point of the illusion.
I asked earlier if anyone saw black here
without any other details of the picture to distract us. It's clearly some shade of gold or brown for most people. It's especially apparent when you use Dark Theme
something you learn when you work with pixels is that the color of pixels will influence the perception of the color of adjacent pixels. I guess a similar logic applies here
There is more to eyesight than how well your eyes can see from a certain distance. I'm myopic as well, but see Blue Brown/Gold, Black. -3.5 here, so not as bad as you.
ShemhazaiX
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People who can switch back and forth are just tricking their own brain into ignoring the visual data in the image. There is no information in the image that indicates a possibility of the dress actually being white. And it's not really an illusion. It's just an over exposed picture. People are honestly just thinking so hard about it that it's fucking with their perception. >.<
It helps people understand how the dress could be bright blue and dark black under a bright light. I'd say the illusion is connected to the way you see the situation: dress in full bright light or dress in shadow. In full bright light you have to compensate for reflections (gold) and darker colors getting lighter, in shadows you have to do.. sort of.. the opposite. I don't know how to see it as a super brightly lit dress on a processing level, only a dress in shadow.
People can't trick their brains. When you can see it both ways you will know.
It's completely a involuntary thing. The only people who are not tricked are those who clearly see light blue and brown.
I await your reaction. Gotta go Uni.
I see it gold and white (with a blue hue), but I think it's because the brain think it's darker than it should be rather than lighter. It kind of look likes the picture is taken with a bright back light (something that would make the object darker) rather than the dress also being overexposed.
EDIT: it's easier to see the blue in light theme than dark theme
EDIT: it's easier to see the blue in light theme than dark theme
So, let me get this straight.
Fact 1: The original dress colors are royal blue and black.
Fact 2: In the photo of the dress, it is light-blue and gold-brown.
What is being discussed is people see the photo of the dress in different colors depending on:
a) their screen (how it is calibrated and at which angle they're looking);
b) how their brain are processing the image (optical illusion).
For an example of b) see: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=153875429#post153875429
- The tile B is dark-gray but your brain process it as light-gray for reasons.
- The dress in the photo is light-blue/gold-brown but your brain process it as white/gold or blue/black for reasons.
Is that it?
Anyway, I'm more curious now about how long will this meme last. =P
Fact 1: The original dress colors are royal blue and black.
Fact 2: In the photo of the dress, it is light-blue and gold-brown.
What is being discussed is people see the photo of the dress in different colors depending on:
a) their screen (how it is calibrated and at which angle they're looking);
b) how their brain are processing the image (optical illusion).
For an example of b) see: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=153875429#post153875429
- The tile B is dark-gray but your brain process it as light-gray for reasons.
- The dress in the photo is light-blue/gold-brown but your brain process it as white/gold or blue/black for reasons.
Is that it?
Anyway, I'm more curious now about how long will this meme last. =P
Went to bed last night seeing white and gold. The image in the OP was the last thing on my tablet when I turned it off.
Sat down to read this morning over breakfast and the first thing I see when I turn my tablet on is that same image but now it's blue and black.
What the hell...
Sat down to read this morning over breakfast and the first thing I see when I turn my tablet on is that same image but now it's blue and black.
What the hell...
YianGaruga
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How do we know it's the same dress and not just the same model in different colors?
What colour is the other dress in the bottom left corner?
CitizenCope
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This is on my local news. Wtf!
Aliquidmeri
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That dress was white and gold this morning, but now I see blue and black. What the hell?
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ShemhazaiX
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People can't trick their brains. When you can see it both ways you will know.
It's completely a involuntary thing. The only people who are not tricked are those who clearly see light blue and brown.
I await your reaction. Gotta go Uni.
It's not about actively tricking their brains. What's happening to people who can see it both ways is like... kind of like how if you focus on a word too much it loses all meaning, if that makes sense? Like, the word "Bus". You keep thinking about the word too much and then you start panicking as to whether it really means what you thought it meant. What's happening to people who only see it one way is that their brain basically has the dictionary in front of them going "Nope, that definitely means X". The problem is that the people who can only see white and gold have a dictionary with the wrong definition.
And people keep saying "When you see it both ways", I've tried seeing it both ways. It's not happening. I can't force myself to discount all of the visual information in the picture that's telling me it's a blue dress. For reference, I know the RGB values are blue and brown and that's what I "See". I'm only talking about the people who can only imagine the dress as being white and gold or blue and black.
edit: Have a good day at uni though.
Stages of an internet story:
1) Did you see that?
2) Everyone has seen it.
3) STOP TALKING ABOUT IT!
4) Remember that?
I think the more interesting thing is the "STOP TALKING ABOUT!" stage that the internet seems to be in already this morning.
There are honestly more people COMPLAINING that it's a story than people talking about the actual story now.
It's 2015, if something is odd/interesting/etc it's going to spread on the internet and people are going to talk about it. Yet, people are still surprised that everyone is talking about it. Just because a lot of people are talking about it, doesn't mean that they think it's important. It's just interesting.
1) Did you see that?
2) Everyone has seen it.
3) STOP TALKING ABOUT IT!
4) Remember that?
I think the more interesting thing is the "STOP TALKING ABOUT!" stage that the internet seems to be in already this morning.
There are honestly more people COMPLAINING that it's a story than people talking about the actual story now.
It's 2015, if something is odd/interesting/etc it's going to spread on the internet and people are going to talk about it. Yet, people are still surprised that everyone is talking about it. Just because a lot of people are talking about it, doesn't mean that they think it's important. It's just interesting.
I think the author of the photo posted another picture of the dress: (in the op)
And you can post-process the photo and recover the original colors of the dress (see below)
Just curious, does this make any difference?:
WorriedCitizen
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It's light blue and dirty yellowish/brownish to me, same as the photoshop color picker returns it. But then i'm an artist and had to learn a good bit about seeing values correctly. It's not as obvious as it seems to the layman. The eye is easily fooled into seeing things differently. Values are actualy a huge problem for many artists to wrap their heads around when they start doing studies.
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