It still is except if you were Saint-Laurent, and your blue was actually navy blue.
The colors of this photo will appear different to everyone. I think?
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It still is except if you were Saint-Laurent, and your blue was actually navy blue.
I love that damned show. Watch it religiously.
Yesterday, I examined this picture thoroughly and concluded it is white (with a very light blue tint, maybe) and gold/brown-ish, my girlfriend agreed this morning after we looked at it on the train to work.
At work, a coworker asks me what color I see without context. So I'm like, "oh this is probably about that dress picture, right? I can't fathom how anyone could see anything but white/gold". He shows me a small picture, and I assumed it was some color altered picture, and I calearly see blue and black. My coworker said it's white/gold. I look back on my phone where I had looked at the picture before and was so sure it is white and gold... and, sure enough, now I see blue and black.
It's amazing how different I perceive it now. It's not a subtle thing. Another coworker experienced the same thing, but most here see white/gold and are trying hard to see blue/black. Perceived contrast is an interesting thing.
At work, a coworker asks me what color I see without context. So I'm like, "oh this is probably about that dress picture, right? I can't fathom how anyone could see anything but white/gold". He shows me a small picture, and I assumed it was some color altered picture, and I calearly see blue and black. My coworker said it's white/gold. I look back on my phone where I had looked at the picture before and was so sure it is white and gold... and, sure enough, now I see blue and black.
It's amazing how different I perceive it now. It's not a subtle thing. Another coworker experienced the same thing, but most here see white/gold and are trying hard to see blue/black. Perceived contrast is an interesting thing.
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lol nothing matters
Boehner if you ruin this for the rest of us I swear to God...
There have been so many mindblowing optical illusions posted on the web from the very beginning.. I couldn't believe how this relatively mundane one blew up today. Everyone I followed on twitter, stars and people from all the continents with nothing in common, posted this.. and the discussion just went on and on. Who's responsible.
PandaShake
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It means you're definitely the father since your kids are seeing half/half of you and mommy
Yep, seeing the dress as white should get you put on a register.
You have pure white in the pic to compare it to, it's not even close.
I think it's mainly because of the way the picture + explanation was phrased in the OP.
"Alterations in cones cause individuals to percieve color differently"
versus
"Our eyes dont work well in dim light so our retinas rods see white, and this makes them less light sensitive, causing additive mixing, (that of green and red), to make gold"
People are either hostile because they don't want to think their eyes are inferior, or because their egos simply can't comprehend the fact that something they thought was cut and dry (like colors) is more about personal perception than universal truth.
gutter_trash
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PC monitory at home = White & Gold
PC monitory at work = Black & BLue
PC monitory at work = Black & BLue
Mass Effect
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Man, this shit is everywhere. Here, on Facebook, on news sites...
No.
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Anyway, in the original picture, at first it looked white and gold, but now it's obvious that isn't white, it's close, but not totally white. Definitely looks blue-ish. As far as the "black" goes, that shit doesn't look black. Not in the original photo anyway.
I mean at this point we know it's black and blue, but I saw gold/white originally.
No.
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Anyway, in the original picture, at first it looked white and gold, but now it's obvious that isn't white, it's close, but not totally white. Definitely looks blue-ish. As far as the "black" goes, that shit doesn't look black. Not in the original photo anyway.
I mean at this point we know it's black and blue, but I saw gold/white originally.
LowEndTorque
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Weird. I first looked at this last night in a pitch black room with my laptop screen as the only light in the room. I saw white and gold. I'm looking at it now a second time in daylight in a well lit room and I'm seeing blue and black.
CharminUltra
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Dress looks blue and black in my iPad mini retina, but white and gold when viewed on my crappy monitor at work.
This one feels different because it's not a manufactured optical illusion. It's just a picture that people are seeing significantly different colors in.
Wyndstryker
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Only those who have seen it change from white/gold to blue/black can really fathom how different it is and how screwed up the perception of the image was.
Those still on one side and never saw the switch are missing out.
Those still on one side and never saw the switch are missing out.
LookAtMeGo
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I know what I saw.
Pankratous
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This makes me wonder how often my eyes see other shit wrong.
Snkfanatic
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White and gold for me....
Also you can have two people standing side by side looking at the same screen in the same lighting conditions and seeing different colors.
As far as I know that is an optical illusion first.
While there's no doubt some truth to having different white balance settings. It doesn't explain those seeing different things on the same display. Or a group of people viewing the same image on the same display at work here, and most seeing white/gold and others blue/black. It's simply the brain prioritizing contrast based on several factors (such as expectation).
DiipuSurotu
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gutter_trash
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okay, this is really fucked up
Yesterday, it was White n Gold for me
Today, it is Black n Blue
like WTF is wrong with me?
is it because I have looked at it at different times of day or on different monitors?
when I go home, I will have to re-check
now, during daylight sitting next to a natural lit window, it is Black n Blue
I will go home tonight, at night using room lighting to see if it turns back to White n Gold
Yesterday, it was White n Gold for me
Today, it is Black n Blue
like WTF is wrong with me?
is it because I have looked at it at different times of day or on different monitors?
when I go home, I will have to re-check
now, during daylight sitting next to a natural lit window, it is Black n Blue
I will go home tonight, at night using room lighting to see if it turns back to White n Gold
I agree; but the body text in the OP did say, "if you see white and gold, your eyes are shit." So it began with an aggressive remark that judges you before you even have time to think about it - so I can see why people feel the need to prove it wrong. And clearly, empirically and scientifically, the pixels in that very photo represent a very specific spectrum of colours. Individual person's monitors may skew results, so some people are experiencing a back and forth when they viewed it on their phones last night, and then their work computers today.
I'm just astonished that such a shitty picture is making the waves around social media. The topic at hand is fine, but seriously? It looks like it was taken by a Blackberry 3 generations ago. Ugh.
AngelOFDeath
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this is literally causing rifts between friends. Can we all agree the picture quality is that of a fisher price camera?
Because shitty pictures taken by shitty cell phones in shitty lighting tend to have a relatively noticeable blue tint.
I see the actual color as presented as a very pale blue, but my mind thinks the dress is white because of that previous information.
Androidsleeps
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No matter what I do it's still white and gold. :/
LookAtMeGo
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Same here but blue and black.
So far at work, the majority are seeing white and gold.
I'm pretty sure the blue/black people don't know how to drive.
CitizenVectron
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There are so many factors at play here. As a photographer, let me dive in:
1) Colour temperature of photo - When you take a picture, cameras will change the colour temperature to automatically try to make things look the right colour based on the lighting source (for consumer cameras anyway, SLRs will let you choose manually). If you take a picture under a tungsten light and then daylight, white will look gold in the former and blue in the latter. A professional would colour-correct in lightroom or photoshop, but a cell phone would not.
2) Colour temperature of monitor - Your monitor can also change the colour of things posted. My work monitor makes the image look more white and gold, but with a blue-ish colour temp. But my home monitor (calibrated for image retouching, etc, and with a full colour gamut) shows a much richer blue and a deep brown, as if it's a blue and black that have been overexposed...which leads to -
3) Exposure - I can make a white horse look black and a black horse look white based on exposure. Exposure is basically how much light is allowed to hit the sensor. So if you over-expose an image, then things become washed out and lighter, as is happening in this image. You can tell the image is over-exposed because the sunlight in the background is blown out rather than being balanced. The dress should be much darker, basically.
So, having said these 3 things, the likeliest explanation is that this is a blue and black dress (more likely a really dark grey than black) that has been over-exposed along with colour-corrected to the warm end. So the blue begins to look white, and the dark grey/black begins to look brown/gold.
This dress appears to come in 2 styles: blue and black, and white and black. It has to be the former, as if it was white and black then the black would look bluer, not yellower. This is because if you colour correct the temperature to the cooler side (white turns to blue) then the black would also turn more blue. To make the black/dark grey brown/gold you'd also have to make the white look very yellow.
So this dress must (by the rules of images and light) be a blue with a dark grey/black lace.
This is all assuming someone hasn't manipulated anything.
1) Colour temperature of photo - When you take a picture, cameras will change the colour temperature to automatically try to make things look the right colour based on the lighting source (for consumer cameras anyway, SLRs will let you choose manually). If you take a picture under a tungsten light and then daylight, white will look gold in the former and blue in the latter. A professional would colour-correct in lightroom or photoshop, but a cell phone would not.
2) Colour temperature of monitor - Your monitor can also change the colour of things posted. My work monitor makes the image look more white and gold, but with a blue-ish colour temp. But my home monitor (calibrated for image retouching, etc, and with a full colour gamut) shows a much richer blue and a deep brown, as if it's a blue and black that have been overexposed...which leads to -
3) Exposure - I can make a white horse look black and a black horse look white based on exposure. Exposure is basically how much light is allowed to hit the sensor. So if you over-expose an image, then things become washed out and lighter, as is happening in this image. You can tell the image is over-exposed because the sunlight in the background is blown out rather than being balanced. The dress should be much darker, basically.
So, having said these 3 things, the likeliest explanation is that this is a blue and black dress (more likely a really dark grey than black) that has been over-exposed along with colour-corrected to the warm end. So the blue begins to look white, and the dark grey/black begins to look brown/gold.
This dress appears to come in 2 styles: blue and black, and white and black. It has to be the former, as if it was white and black then the black would look bluer, not yellower. This is because if you colour correct the temperature to the cooler side (white turns to blue) then the black would also turn more blue. To make the black/dark grey brown/gold you'd also have to make the white look very yellow.
So this dress must (by the rules of images and light) be a blue with a dark grey/black lace.
This is all assuming someone hasn't manipulated anything.
Wyndstryker
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Problem is that you can have a group of people looking at the same photo on the same monitor and you'll still get splits between white/gold and blue/black
Right, nothing is wrong with you or your eyes, read the OP explanation to have a somewhat better understanding of what is going on. Because you see black/blue with daylight may prove that your blue cones aren't as sensitive anymore and require more light to pick it up.
This isn't an optical illusion. Optical illusions, as far as I'm aware, "do" the same "thing" to all people, this doesn't. It's an eye "thing" and it has to do with cones. Until someone provides a legit better explanation, the one in the OP is the best.
This. At first i called bullshit. It was obviously white and gold. No way this could be seen as blue and black. I just couldn't care less.
This morning i look at the picture again. The same picture, the same screen (my smartphone) and it's fucking black and blue! Mindblown.
eso76
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This is the point, the explanation has nothing to do with retinas and eyesight.
It's all in your brain, it's just the way you interpret lighting in that picture.
At first glance it looks like the dress is outside, lit with natural ambient light on a clear day, although in the shadow.
Your brain attributes the blueish tint to fill light from a blue sky and the black does have a brownish - gold tint, that, wouldn't be there with natural ambient light, unless it was actually gold.
But then you realize the dress is actually inside the store, and there's an incandescent light source on it. When your brain starts processing this bit of info the dress will appear black and blue.
True Underdog
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The same happened to me sort of. Looked at it this morning in an article and it was black and blue. Scrolled down and saw it again as white and gold. Scrolled back up to the top where I saw it as black/blue... white/gold.
Fuck this shit
here is an example for my previous post:
A photo of a white shirt.
In the first half the white balance is adjusted for the sun and the part in the shade looks blue (like the dress in the original image)
In the second half the photo is adjusted for the shade - and now the color looks correctly colorless in the shade, while the part in the sun becomes yellowish.
A photo of a white shirt.
In the first half the white balance is adjusted for the sun and the part in the shade looks blue (like the dress in the original image)
In the second half the photo is adjusted for the shade - and now the color looks correctly colorless in the shade, while the part in the sun becomes yellowish.
This is exactly what is happening in the dress image. The original is adjusted for the sun white balance which makes the dress in the shade look blueish. When the white balance is corrected for the shade the dress in the shade looks correctly as white and gold (just like the shirt in the shade looked correctly colorless), while the outside becomes incorrectly yellowish.
The dress will unite humanity. Or destroy it.
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