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Mafe
Profile Joined February 2011
Germany5966 Posts
February 28 2015 22:04 GMT
#221
To anyone with photoshop skills: Could you please fake a screenshot of a white-background-golden-letters-tl.net?
TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10696 Posts
February 28 2015 22:18 GMT
#222
Wtf is the point of this.
AKA: TelecoM[WHITE] Protoss fighting
GreenHorizons
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States23671 Posts
February 28 2015 22:31 GMT
#223
On March 01 2015 07:18 GGzerG wrote:
Wtf is the point of this.


I personally think everyone would benefit by looking at how they and people around them reacted to this dress thing and compare it to how they react to other controversial/'unimportant' information.

You could learn a lot about yourself and others. Since the facts of the matter are as about as simple as things get, but can still be intensely controversial, how one interprets and reacts to them says a lot about the person IMO.
"People like to look at history and think 'If that was me back then, I would have...' We're living through history, and the truth is, whatever you are doing now is probably what you would have done then" "Scratch a Liberal..."
synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
February 28 2015 22:34 GMT
#224
On March 01 2015 06:50 Blargh wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 01 2015 06:47 Coagulation wrote:
chalz stahp
+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]

If this thread stays open, this picture stays too.

b-b-but muh TL moderation

OT: just a problem of white-balance. interesting that people perceive the light blue to either straight up white or straight up blue, kind of doing the white balancing in their head.
:)
Jacenoob
Profile Joined August 2014
299 Posts
February 28 2015 23:16 GMT
#225
Watched on two different laptops, got two different results. Interesting!
PoP
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
France15446 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-02-28 23:47:34
February 28 2015 23:47 GMT
#226
On March 01 2015 00:23 Fi0na wrote:
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On February 28 2015 23:21 llIH wrote:
I still have no idea how anyone can consider that "white" color. Makes no sense. Blue is 100%.

here are some RGB-values from analysing different pixels of the dress:
100/105/129
130/146/182
125/134/160
140/148/184
156/175/200
163/177/211
071/080/112

So yes, while blue is the dominating color, it does not dominate by much. Yes, you get these colors if you use blue and turn on some knobs.

HOWEVER, if you use the HSL model (hue-saturation-lightness) you can quickly find out that the saturation is far less than 50% on the blue for every single one of these probes I took. Which means there is two to three times as much white than there is blue.


Well if we're going by "how does that color look on its own", which as was said several times does not make much sense considering how the brain actually perceives relative colors in a scene, then this post contains the main shades we can see on the lighter part of the dress.

I dare anyone to say these look "white" or "whiter than blue" by any stretch of the imagination. Also that pink red example of yours looks nowhere close to its blue equivalent, but I might've missed the point.
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B1nary
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada1267 Posts
March 01 2015 00:12 GMT
#227
This must be one big troll. The "trollers" are saying it's white/gold while the "trollees" are scratching their heads.
rotta
Profile Joined December 2011
5599 Posts
March 01 2015 00:27 GMT
#228
On March 01 2015 08:16 Jacenoob wrote:
Watched on two different laptops, got two different results. Interesting!

All I had to do get different results was to stand up.
don't wall off against random
Capped
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom7236 Posts
March 01 2015 00:30 GMT
#229
Can someone explain why this shit is purple / brown to me and everyones saying that im retarded for thinking this.
Useless wet fish.
iPlaY.NettleS
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Australia4387 Posts
March 01 2015 00:31 GMT
#230
On February 28 2015 22:47 PoP wrote:
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On February 28 2015 22:30 Poopi wrote:
Yeah but the colors on the pictures are indeed gold / light blue. Who cares what the actual color is.


Well when so many people clearly see it as the color it actually is (I do), then it's pretty funny to consider only the other part is right.

It's a lace dress, the light is shining through the lace distorting the colours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7PvoI6gvQs
jello_biafra
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United Kingdom6640 Posts
March 01 2015 00:36 GMT
#231
Blue and black for me, no doubt about it.
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SilverSkyLark
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Philippines8437 Posts
March 01 2015 00:54 GMT
#232
Why was this thread reopened? There are tons of videos discussing how people see the dress differently and what the real color is.

(Can we have this closed again? Cuz people will spam this thread until it gets old - which was yesterday)
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Alcathous
Profile Joined December 2014
Netherlands219 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-03-01 01:07:49
March 01 2015 01:07 GMT
#233
Close this shit. When mainstream news opens up with this, the world is fucked.


Take a stand.
SilverSkyLark
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Philippines8437 Posts
March 01 2015 01:34 GMT
#234
On March 01 2015 10:07 Alcathous wrote:
Close this shit. When mainstream news opens up with this, the world is fucked.


Take a stand.


Kwark actually closed this already a few hours ago. :/ what happened mods?
"If i lost an arm, I would play w3." -IntoTheWow || "Member of Hyuk Hyuk Hyuk cafe. He's the next Jaedong, baby!"
Emnjay808
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
United States10665 Posts
March 01 2015 01:46 GMT
#235
Even TL is not safe from this shit.

When I look directly into my monitor at eye-level its White/Gold. But when I kneel down and look up at my monitor it turns blue/black.

Case fucking closed guys.
Skol
Sbrubbles
Profile Joined October 2010
Brazil5776 Posts
March 01 2015 03:14 GMT
#236
Wow, so many people angry at the attention given to this (to the point of closing the thread, no less!). Just chill guys, the interest will fade.
Bora Pain minha porra!
Deleted User 135096
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
3624 Posts
March 01 2015 03:21 GMT
#237
I've seen this a lot the last few days....I don't get it.. It's a photo with poor white balance.
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Blargh
Profile Joined September 2010
United States2103 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-03-01 03:22:43
March 01 2015 03:21 GMT
#238
On March 01 2015 10:34 SilverSkyLark wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 01 2015 10:07 Alcathous wrote:
Close this shit. When mainstream news opens up with this, the world is fucked.


Take a stand.


Kwark actually closed this already a few hours ago. :/ what happened mods?

KadaverBB is a scumbag.

On March 01 2015 12:21 wo1fwood wrote:
I've seen this a lot the last few days....I don't get it.. It's a photo with poor white balance.

BUT IT'S ACTUALLY BLACK AND BLUE, LOL.
SKC
Profile Joined October 2010
Brazil18828 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-03-01 03:28:52
March 01 2015 03:26 GMT
#239
On March 01 2015 12:21 wo1fwood wrote:
I've seen this a lot the last few days....I don't get it.. It's a photo with poor white balance.

The point is that people see diferent colors by looking at the same image. Not that they see the same color but have diferent interpertations of what they see, or diferent colors depending on the brightness of the monitor of who is watching.

It's an optical illusion that affects only a portion of the viewers for some reason, unlike all those popular color tricks you see online, and it happened on a random shitty photo of a dress instead of a carefully prepared picture.
Subversive
Profile Joined October 2009
Australia2229 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-03-01 06:24:27
March 01 2015 06:22 GMT
#240
On March 01 2015 12:21 Blargh wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 01 2015 10:34 SilverSkyLark wrote:
On March 01 2015 10:07 Alcathous wrote:
Close this shit. When mainstream news opens up with this, the world is fucked.


Take a stand.


Kwark actually closed this already a few hours ago. :/ what happened mods?

KadaverBB is a scumbag.


Lol scumbag? That's a bit harsh.

I wonder if age has anything to do with it. I heard some theory about it, although I haven't read it myself. I find it interesting thought that the 3 or 4 people under 30 I've spoken to see blue and black, I see lavender and gold (early 30's) and anyone over ~40+ has seen white and gold. Anyone not fit that pattern?
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