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

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Haha I agree there may be a tiny bit of a condescending tone to it, although I prefer the term brutal honesty :p

The point I'm trying to make with that post is there's nothing wrong with either color combo, that both can be right, and that if you're in #1 you're missing the point of the discussion entirely or can't process lighting conditions.
 
DJ88 said:
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.
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Your couch is brown.

And at the darkest point the Vine gets, it's still not black.

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Let's be real. You're going to be wearing this dress places where this is some sort of lighting, so it's always going to be white and gold, or blue and gold.

You know something has a problem being black when it's only black in a completely dark room.

The black shirt I'm wearing right now, and my black keyboard, and my black monitor, etc... Are never gold no matter the lighting.

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I don't see the OP as doing that. DJ's post is way more condescending, imo.
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—Blue and Black: In conclusion, your retina’s cones are more high functioning, and this results in your eyes doing subtractive mixing.

—White and Gold: our eyes don’t 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.
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You srs?
 
DJ88 said:
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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I don't understand how people are so confused by black reflecting light issue. If you turn off your TV/computer monitor and it reflects lights that are on in the room or a camera flash there would be parts of the monitor/TV that are white/grey or yellow/brown from the reflecting lights. Your "black mirror" would no longer be completely black. Is anyone going to seriously argue that a monitor/TV screen that is off is actually white/grey/yellow/brown? The highlights on the dress are a reflection of the lights being cast upon the material. Isolating individual pixels and subpixels tells you nothing other than what color you might get when you mix the light source with the dress material. It's no different than seeing a person with black hair in some lighting situations or brown hair under some lights.

My theory is that these people who can see white/gold are seeing the dominant light source as coming from behind the dress when in reality the entire image including the light from behind the dress is blown out and overexposed.
 
Guardian Explanation

Marie Rogers - Guardian Article said:
In our everyday lives, there are many changes in the colour of the light illuminating our surroundings. For example, the yellow glow of an incandescent light bulb versus the blue-ish hue of a fluorescent light. The light that an object reflects to the eye is a combination of both the colour of the object itself and the spectrum of the light source, which may vary. The brain is able to disentangle these two things and decide what colour the object is. Simply put, objects appear the same colour even if the light illuminating them changes – a concept known as colour constancy.
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There now appears to be good evidence that The Dress is in fact blue and black (but it’s always good to keep some scepticism regarding information on the internet). Therefore, arguably, people who originally saw it this way have better colour constancy. They were able to take cues from the background and compensate for the very unnatural illumination. There is evidence that people with good colour constancy also have better working memory (a part of short term memory dedicated to immediate perceptual processing) and that these two processes may be related.
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Marie Rogers is a PhD student with the Sussex Colour Group, investigating how colour word learning influences colour perception and cognition.
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Colour Constancy

Wiki said:
Color constancy is an example of subjective constancy and a feature of the human color perception system which ensures that the perceived color of objects remains relatively constant under varying illumination conditions. A green apple for instance looks green to us at midday, when the main illumination is white sunlight, and also at sunset, when the main illumination is red. This helps us identify objects.
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Conkerkid11 said:
Your couch is brown.

Let's be real. You're going to be wearing this dress places where this is some sort of lighting, so it's always going to be white and gold, or blue and gold.

You know something has a problem being black when it's only black in a completely dark room.

The black shirt I'm wearing right now, and my black keyboard, and my black monitor, etc... Are never gold no matter the lighting.
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Dude... it's black. You're just in denial now.

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Crazy how lighting and cameras can alter the color or things. Quit being such a stickler about what is black, and stop thinking about what your eyes in real life see and more about what a camera sees. Also, that dress has no problem being black in a lit room.

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Weird. I saw white and gold in the beginning when I first clicked on the thread, and when I scrolled back up I saw Blue and Black. -_-
 
DJ88 said:
Dude... it's black. You're just in denial now.

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Crazy how lighting and cameras can alter the color or things. Quit being such a stickler about what is black, and stop thinking about what your eyes in real life see and more about what a camera sees. Also, that dress has no problem being black in a lit room.

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Half of your couch is brown, and the other half is black brah

That's not the same dress brah.

Edit: Also, your carpet is green.
 
VoidVR said:
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.
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I don't think people have much argument over whether the white is white or blue. It could go either way. It looks blueish white to me and my color picker agrees.

The main thing is the gold part..
 
Another explanation similar to the one in the OP.

Your retina is comprised of rods and cones. Rods are more sensitive to light, but see shapes and not colour. Cones are sensitive to colour, but less sensitive to light — i.e. in darker conditions, you're seeing more with rods than cones. You have three sizes of cones, blue (smallest) to red (biggest), as seen on the graph above.

Whether the dress appears as blue/black or white/gold depends on whether your eye has more rods or cones, and also the ambient lighting conditions in the room. (This is thanks to the different colours that are produced by additive and subtractive colour mixing.) Different people have different balances of rods and cones — most notably colour-blind weirdos like myself — hence different people seeing different colours, and families brutally murdering each other over this mess.
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Basically, if you've been in a darker room so that your eyes have had time to adjust - and/or - your eyes react quicker/better to varying light conditions and sudden changes, you're more likely to see it as blue and black.

But rods are also very sensitive to light. Rod cells detect colour using a pigment called rhodopsin, which is very sensitive to low light, but is bleached and destroyed by higher light levels, and takes around 45 minutes to redevelop (why your eyes take time to adapt to night, in other words).
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jellies_two said:
I don't think people have much argument over whether the white is white or blue. It could go either way. It looks blueish white to me and my color picker agrees.

The main thing is the gold part..
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yeah, but the blue and black people see a dark blue, while the white and gold people see anything from white to light blue.
 
So how the hell did this stupid thing manage to get on the front page of the NY Times website?

Where did this start, and why do people care?
 
On my phone it's even more gold!

That said, I COMPLETELY understand where the people are coming from who see black. Light reflecting. All that.

I get it.

The dress is black and blue. Fact.

The photo does not show it as such. The photo is a distortion. You can't blame the yellow-seeing folks for just saying what the photo is displaying.
 
As we're on the 80th whatever goddamn page already I'm sure everything has been said, but I'm interested in what people see in the inverted version of the picture. The only way I can see the original picture as white and gold now is if I view it next to this one.

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All sorts of celebrities all over the world were tweeting about it, different radio stations in South America and Europe were mentioning it, etc. This dress was talked about everywhere.
 
Hmm. Interesting. I hadn't touched my tablet since I read this thread this morning, and when I picked it up just now it was at the OP and I now see it as much more blue and a very dark gold that could undetandably be described as black at first glance. The only thing that's changed is the time of day, so I'm nearing tiredness and there's no sunlight. Actually, it's possible that the Lux filter affected my brain, so even when I disabled it I still saw what may be the blue/black that some of you see.
 
I don't understand this debate. To me, it's so very obviously white and gold, but it's not like there's enough context to know it's an overexposed photos. Some of the other examples that have come up here are a little easier to understand, but not even seeing the original dress color helps. You have to try to mess it up that much.
 
Demmi said:
As we're on the 80th whatever goddamn page already I'm sure everything has been said, but I'm interested in what people see in the inverted version of the picture. The only way I can see the original picture as white and gold now is if I view it next to this one.

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Light brown/gold & white dress with bluish & blackish stuff in the background
 
I just looked at the pic again and it was while/gold, while I was still staring at it it changed to black/blue right before my eyes, stupid brain, be consistent dammnit.
 
Ok, wth, in the span of 3 minutes the colours changed.

When I clicked on this thread, it was Black + Blue.

Now I go back to the first page, it's White + Gold.

When I saw this thread yesterday, it was White + Gold.

This is freaking me out a bit D:
 
Whenever I open this thread on mobile and only see the top half of the image, it always looks white, but as soon as I scroll and can see the bottom half, it goes blue. I think the lens flare in the top right is messing with me.
 
I've been arguing all day with brother about this thread I saw blue and black...I go out to eat, change of lighting, etc, I reopen the thread, I see gold and white, and thought, "ok who's the Spartans that made a new thread with a new picture, I scroll down on my phone and realize it's the same thread and scroll back up and it's back to blue and black...

Eyes are playing tricks on me
 
Ha I did see white/gold as the image loaded back on page 1.

Like for a brief moment I saw inside the mind of a psycopath then quickly snapped back into reality.

Feel like a warg on GoT now :P
 
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