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

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Does anyone know which episode of The Office this is, and what it is that they're arguing over?
 
That picture is so confusing because our eyes would never see something like that in person. Only a camera can capture light like that. In real life we'd be squinting our eyes at silhouettes because the lighting in the store is apparently brighter than the sun.
 
Me: Do not try and see the colors of the dress. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.
You: What truth?
Me: There is no dress.
You: There is no dress?
Me: Then you'll see, that it is not the dress that has colors, it is only yourself.
 
justjustin said:
That picture is so confusing because our eyes would never see something like that in person. Only a camera can capture light like that. In real life we'd be squinting our eyes at silhouettes because the lighting in the store is apparently brighter than the sun.
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Yeah, by far the most interesting aspect of this too me is that the interpretation of the scene is based on our learned perception of photographs, as opposed to how we naturally perceive objects and light.
 
How "black" is it looking to people? I can see the blue and black but then it's a washed out black, if that makes sense
 
When it is blue, it is really blue. I can see both and it is really jarring When you see it. Like a totally different picture.
The black is washed out when it is blue, and very gold when it is white.
The stark difference is why each side calls the other crazy.
 
DJ88 said:
Man what happened here while I was asleep?

There's only three simple possibilities here guys. Your damn eyes aren't fucked up, the explanation in the OP is complete bullshit, and there's isn't any sort of witchcraft or disease in your brain if the colors switch for you.

Posibility #1

You see the colors the exact way they look in the photograph. Your brain works like the color picker in photoshop. Your brain is incapable of applying lighting context to be able to ignore what the literal values of the colors are and process what the actual colors are. The people who are losing their minds about how they can't possibly get how others can see either black or white in the picture just don't understand how lighting or our brains work. No one is having an argument about what pixels the colors are. That's a dumb boring argument. Yes, the pixels are blue and brown/gold, anyone with an image editing software can see that, congratulations. The real discussions are in the next 2 possibilities.

Posibility #2

Your brain perceives the dress as being under a shadow or in the shade. Your brain applies this lighting context and correctly makes the blue color white and the gold stays gold. You see white and gold, THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. Your brain is just simply choosing the wrong lighting condition. It is correctly applying the lighting condition of a shadow, but unfortunately it's the wrong lighting condition. The right one is...

Posibility #3

Your brain percieves the dress as being in a store under indoor lighting which usually has a yellowish tint to it. Your brain applies this lighting context and correctly makes the gold color black and the blue stays blue. You see blue and black. This is the actual lighting condition of the photo and what the real life dress is.

So in summary, there is nothing wrong with seeing white/gold or blue/black. If you see either of these two then pat yourself on the back, you're able to correctly interpret lighting cues and conditions. There's just not enough context to pick which of the two lighting conditions is happening. It's pretty much a 50/50 crapshoot whether your brain clings onto the right one or the wrong one and it's really hard to switch to the other. Your brain might suddenly flip flop and you'll see the other colors, no the OP picture wasn't changed, no nothing is wrong with your eyes or your brain, that's just how powerful the brain is. Some people can willfully see either combination and they have a strong will over what their brain percieves.

If you can't get out of possibility #1 or can't fathom how someone can be in #2 or #3 then there's no hope for you. This is the 100% correct explanation and that's all there is to it.

Now let this get buried in the pages and may the:

"But the pixels are blue and gold guyssss!!!"
"Woah it was white and gold this morning, but it's black and blue now!"
"I swear the OP is trolling us by changing the picture"
"How can anyone see blue as white? Howww?????"
"If you see gold as black, then your an alien"

posts continue forever!
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Best post yet.
 
I thought the screen in the OP looked gold/light blue. Now I saw the image on my friends iphone and it was black/dark blue. She thought it looked gold/white.

Now Im really confused.
 
yogloo said:
When it is blue, it is really blue. I can see both and it is really jarring When you see it. Like a totally different picture.
The black is washed out when it is blue, and very gold when it is white.
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Not washed out blue? If not then I need to keep staring at it

Edit: oh god we got a Sunhi gif awesome lol
 
Arkos said:
Not washed out blue? If not then I need to keep staring at it

Edit: oh god we got a Sunhi gif awesome lol
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No. It is very blue when it turns blue. It is impossible to calls it white or even light blue.
You immediately knows it is washed out dark blue.
 
Alright Science bitch, explain this.
: if people who can see both have average eyes. Why the fuck can I see both and others can't?
 
Not sure why people are so captivated by this thing. I was already asked about it by three people at work. This isn't the first colour difference image of its sort, nor will it be the last.

It was even on the evening news today. Waste of time.
 
Zips said:
Not sure why people are so captivated by this thing. I was already asked about it by three people at work. This isn't the first colour difference image of its sort, nor will it be the last.

It was even on the evening news today. Waste of time.
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GAF help me, how can I be this cool?!
 
It was white & gold the first time I saw it, but opening this thread its black & blue.

Pretty neat stuff, but I bet all this free advertising is killer for Roman or whoever is selling the dress.
 
MrAstronaut said:
It was white & gold the first time I saw it, but opening this thread its black & blue.

Pretty neat stuff, but I bet all this free advertising is killer for Roman or whoever is selling the dress.
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I saw on the news today that the sales are up 307% and they are gonna make a white and gold version of the dress

and its Blue and black free your mind from the Matrix and see the truth lol
 
Zips said:
Not sure why people are so captivated by this thing. I was already asked about it by three people at work. This isn't the first colour difference image of its sort, nor will it be the last.

It was even on the evening news today. Waste of time.
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I used to collect images of cars on the net as a bit of a hobby and lighting conditions used to make the same prototype look completely different. Perhaps that sort of thing helped me to see images like this.
 
The photo was taken indoors, in a store. Like most stores, there are bright halogen lamps in the ceiling, shing downwards. Halogen lamps have a color temperature of 3000K, which is yellow. There's a window in the background, but it is not contributing light to the dress, at least not the side we're seeing. The photo is also very much overexposed, and the white balance is slightly off.
 
Was the pic photoshopped recently?

I swear the first time I saw white and gold....now I only see blue and black :S

--I'm seeing different colours all the time :S Just looked at it again. - -- Might be because using second monitor atm which is a bit darker. I dunno.
 
Zips said:
Who said anything about being cool? Do you really feel this dress deserves the amount of attention it's gotten? Or are you just trying to dismiss me with a poorly thought out reply.
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Do you complain about everything that you feel doesn't deserve the attention its getting? How do you find the time to sleep?
 
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