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

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L.O.R.D said:
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Amazing.

So who's to say someone hasn't just been changing the image?
 
When my first first showed me and my other friend in a group chat I would have bet my life it was white/gold. One of the friends was sure it was black/blue.

Then as I was browsing twitter before bed I saw it black/blue and I was think wtf. Someone just colored it in as a joke or something. But I got curious and went back to the original photo psoted in my group chate sure enough it was black/blue clear as day. I literally freaked out and called my friend to wake her and make sure I wasn't crazy.

I asked her what she saw and she said still gold/white. I said okay gn sorry for waking you. Sure enough I get a call 2 minutes later with her freaking out "WTF is going on I see black/blue now. Literally 2 seconds ago I saw white/gold. Something just told me to look at it again."

Ive seen it as black/blue ever since and she swears that it switches between the 2 for her.
 
When I first viewed the picture it was white and gold. After reading the explanation and going back up it turned black and blue.
 
It's white and gold to me now, was blue / black earlier.. Only difference is there's no natural / artificial light in my room currently. There was natural light earlier on.

Edit - oh fuck me that was trippy. I kept staring at it, and as I kept telling myself it was blue/black (even though at that moment i was seeing white/gold) it actually changed slowly in front of my eyes to blue/black again.
 
Costia said:
That's the confusing part.
If you look at it as if it is in the shade it will look as white/gold.
But if you look at it as if it is being lit by a separate yellow light it will look as blue/black.
Now i mostly see it as blue/black. Sometimes i can see the white/gold again. Really strange.
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If you look at the upper part of the pic it will look like the dress is outside, in the shade and your brain will decode it as white/gold.

If you look at the bottom of the pic you'll see the dress is inside the store and you'll understand that it's lit by an incandescent spot and it will look blue gold.

it's impossible to tell the absolute color value of something from a picture without knowing what temperature is the light.

The wall in front of me is most certainly white, but i can take a pic of it and, without any element next to it to compare, no one would guess its real color (especially since it's being lit by a mix of fluorescent and incandescent light).

Likewise, in this pic you don't have elements to understand what the light source is and the ones you see at first glance - the overexposed sky and backdrop - are misleading.
 
This is getting crazy. Discussions about this in Reddit, Twitter, all over the internet...

Could it be that half the population has a new type of color-blindness? That still doesn't explain why I saw it white and gold first, then black and blue though...
 
GenericBadGuy said:
Amazing.

So who's to say someone hasn't just been changing the image?
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Because people see it change after a blink or a scroll change without a page refresh. People have saved the image and see it change too.

The main issue is that sure you have two sides with different perceptions of the image but you have those who have seen the transition and can confirm that the image is the same.
 
When I first opened this thread, the dress was very clearly white and gold. I then scrolled down to the second picture in the op, and instantly the original picture turned to blue and black. Really cool optical trick. I can't get it back to white and gold, BTW. PEACE.
 
Was on the "why is everyone giving a shit" boat for a while but then I saw the picture again and it was a different color? I.. Uh...
 
Krauser Kat said:
high five. anything below 10 is pretty good it think. I got a perfect as well though.

also the dress is black and blue but the picture is fucked.
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Yep, it's clearly black and blue on an overexposed picture. The colors "look" light blue and bronzy brown to me, but I can see that it's meant to be black and blue.

No matter how hard I try, I can't see the white... especially snow white. :|
 
It's the one-in-a-billion photo that exploits the differences between peoples eyes and how the eyes work.

After everyone is dead from the nuclear war that comes over debating this photo, aliens will come and be just as confused. Their civilization will fall over the debate and another alien civilization will find the photo and collapse afterwards.

Pandora's box has been opened.
 
On my work laptop I see 'Blue and black' and my home PC screen I see 'White and gold'.
WTF is wrong with me???
 
My bf told me that the dress was white and gold on his phone, ok on mine too. Whew I thought, I am not crazy. Then he tells me it is actually blue on the pc. I turn around to look at his monitor, he looks back at me. It's still fucking white and gold you alien scum
 
cutmeamango said:
The dress is black and blue.
The photo of the dress is dark brown with yellow tint in brighter areas and light blue, as demonstrated by every color picker.

Now why do you see white and gold?
Most likely blue hue fatigue, your eyes have been exposed during the time you are awake to bright lights like sun light/lit screens and so on, so when you look at the image unaware of which color you are looking at, the blue gets filtered. -> Chromatic adaptation
Concurrently the super exposed background with white and yellow tinting may further influence this perception. Which also explains that when you do see blue/brown (black) it's likely that you'll keep seeing that, even if the hue fluctuates. -> Colour constancy.

How to game the eye/brain to see gold/white?

Opponent process. Bombard the focused eye with blue and when the image shifts fast, your eyes will eliminate it from the next image.
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Focus on the black collar (neck area)/top of the image and stay focused there, in 30s or less you should be seeing the second image as gold/white (blueish).

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http://imgur.com/YpvzQhP < for a darker background.

The 1 second flash image is the original, same as op, you may test it after.
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It seems to me it has something to do with how your brain interprets it. it only really affects me when I see the saturated sunlight shining through the window. It's like my brain is adjusting to that. If you are in a dark room with the only source of light directly behind you, it causes a silhouette effect as the light bends around you rather than directly hitting you. I think my brain is interpreting the blue as a dark shade of white.

That's why I think scrolling up rather than down causes you to interpret it differently.
 
This has been driving me crazy all day. Some guy on reddit messed with the contrast, and it that version I see the dress as black and blue. The original pic is still white and gold to me, UNLESS I look at it cross-eyed... I've been spending way too much time on this.

Does looking at it cross-eyed work for anyone else?
 
Senator Tim Scott (R-SC): White and Gold
Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO): White and Gold

Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-MN): White and Gold
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA): Blue and Green
Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA): Blue and Black
 
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