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

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DJ88 said:
Yeah but the whole thing started from the tumblr of a woman whose friends could not decide if the actual real life color of the dress was blue/black or white and gold. If it was about what color are the pixels of the photo then yeah, 5 seconds in photoshop and end of discussion, yaaawwwwwn.
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I still don't see black becoming gold in the right light.

Somebody prove this to me.

That Vine still ended with the dress being blue and gold.

And why would blue turn into white, and black into gold?
 
I think i'm going insane. When I first looked at the picture it was clearly white and gold, but after scrolling for a bit and looking at the pic again i can't see anything other than black and blue.
 
If you crop the dress so it doesn't look like a dress. Just crop a rectangle out of the middle, then I do think everyone would say (I hope) that is stripes of gold/tan/sand with stripes of bluish/white

And that's what my color picker says. They are just colors and don't surprise me or flip in my mind. Gold pixels are gold pixels.

However when it is a dress, taken with a shitty phone, held up in that shitty light I guess (some) people can correctly decode it back to what it really is, in real life: a black and blue dress. And once that has happened, you lose touch with the original color and the more advanced interpretation rules your head.

At least I think that is what is going on.
 
DJ88 said:
Yeah but the whole thing started from the tumblr of a woman whose friends could not decide if the actual real life color of the dress was blue/black or white/gold. If it was about what color are the pixels of the photo then yeah, 5 seconds in photoshop and end of discussion, yaaawwwwwn.
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I only saw the dress on this forum, and the OP only talks about the colors displayed in the photo.
 
LuuKyK said:
Yesterday it was white and gold for me, but today I saw the same picture on mobile and it was black and blue. Creeped me out a bit. lol
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Looked at it at work: white and gold, looking at it now at home it's blue and gold.

And I can't believe my local tv news show actually aired a story about it. Like there isn't any more important shit going on.
 
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Welp...it finally changed colors on me. It's mostly blue and black-ish gold now. Damn it what have you done to my eyes Gaf? D:
 
TheElgorin said:
I think i'm going insane. When I first looked at the picture it was clearly white and gold, but after scrolling for a bit and looking at the pic again i can't see anything other than black and blue.
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That's the point and is why there is so much pointless arguing lol.

People don't realise that this illusion works both ways. People are trying to say the other is wrong and it's funny.

Like if I called someone blind for seeing the girl spinning left instead of right.

It's a shame though, a lot less people are setting both now. Arguments are getting repeated.

I can't wait until it is properly documented.
 
Welp. When I first saw this thread when it was created I saw White & Gold clear as day. Now I have returned however I see nothing but Blue & Black. Hold me.
 
What in the world. All day yesterday all I could see was blue and "black" brown but woke up this morning and it's white and gold.
 
Timedog said:
Okay, so I looked at this last night on Devolution's laptop and we were both like "wtf that's blue and black, how could anyone see differently? Impossible!", and we were taking the photo into photoshop and making adjustments and what not.

Now I'm on my desktop and it's gold and white.

The problem could have something to do with monitor technology??
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Did you ever try out the color picker in Photoshop when it was blue and black?
 
Timedog said:
Okay, so I looked at this last night on Devolution's laptop and we were both like "wtf that's blue and black, how could anyone see differently? Impossible!", and we were taking the photo into photoshop and making adjustments and what not.

Now I'm on my desktop and it's gold and white.

The problem could have something to do with monitor technology??
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Nah, it can change without adjusting or changing anything related to the technology.
 
Timedog said:
Okay, so I looked at this last night on Devolution's laptop and we were both like "wtf that's blue and black, how could anyone see differently? Impossible!", and we were taking the photo into photoshop and making adjustments and what not.

Now I'm on my desktop and it's gold and white.

The problem could have something to do with monitor technology??
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I at least has something to do with it. Plus the lighting in the room you're viewing it in, angle, yadda yadda. I'm not sure what's so fascinating about it tbh.
 
Timedog said:
Okay, so I looked at this last night on Devolution's laptop and we were both like "wtf that's blue and black, how could anyone see differently? Impossible!", and we were taking the photo into photoshop and making adjustments and what not.

Now I'm on my desktop and it's gold and white.

The problem could have something to do with monitor technology??
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I'm looking at it on the same device and its now Blue & Black to me.
 
It's white and black today and also I was having weird eyesight issues in my physics lab earlier when they shut off the lights and I could barely see anything. Usually i'm okay looking at stuff in low light but my sight seems off today.
 
Is it weird that the fact that I see white and yellow today when yesterday I saw glorious blue and black fills me with a deep self-loathing and existential angst?
 
Could the cause of the white/gold optical illusion be the bright light over the right shoulder? Maybe this bright white light (similar to taking a photo with the sun in the background) tricks your brain into thinking the light is coming from behind and the dress is in shadow when in reality the dress is actually being overexposed by the bright lights hitting it directly. This could be the reason why some people see white/gold when scrolling down and blue/black when scrolling up from the bottom of the dress.
 
Costia said:
I think the explanation in the OP needs to be changed to what DJ88 wrote.
The current explanation there doesn't make any sense to me.
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And the implication that seeing it one way over another makes someone medically inferior is probably causing a lot of the tension in the thread.
 
Conkerkid11 said:
I still don't see black becoming gold in the right light.

Somebody prove this to me.

That Vine still ended with the dress being blue and gold.

And why would blue turn into white, and black into gold?
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Easy. And if you seriously still see the dress in the Vine bring blue and gold in the end, then you are severely in the "brain can't process lighting cues" camp.

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My 100% black couch.
 
OH FUCK, I got it to change, kind of.

I covered me eyes with both hands, and looked into the blackness for a good 30 seconds, then I peeked out between very tiny cracks between my fingers and it looked blue and black, then as i removed my hands completely from over my eyes and it looks like a weird mixture between white and gold, and blue and black.
 
I just opened this thread on my PC, ipad and phone. On my phone and ipad I see blue and gold, but on my monitor it's white and gold. Look back to my ipad and phone - blue and gold. Switched PC display from monitor to TV and it's still white and gold.

My whole life is a lie.
 
Zoom level factors into perception of the colors I've noticed. As a thumbnail, it looks blue/black. At 150% (what I normally view GAF at on my monitor) it looked white/gold since I could only see the top half of the image.
 
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