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MoonfireSpam
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United Kingdom1153 Posts
February 27 2015 13:29 GMT
#21
Aww it's like the Internet just learned about optical illusions. So cute!
Ghostcom
Profile Joined March 2010
Denmark4782 Posts
February 27 2015 13:40 GMT
#22
You are late to the party. And the dress has been established to be actually be blue/black.
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
February 27 2015 13:45 GMT
#23
On February 27 2015 22:40 Ghostcom wrote:
You are late to the party. And the dress has been established to be actually be blue/black.

Its also an illusion. But yes, if the dress was directly in front of you it would be blue and black. Unless you're color blind.

Moral: color is subjective.
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saltywet
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Hong Kong1316 Posts
February 27 2015 14:11 GMT
#24
On February 27 2015 14:38 Ayaz2810 wrote:
In what universe is that blue and black?


Ayaz posted my thoughts word for word
c0ldfusion
Profile Joined October 2010
United States8293 Posts
February 27 2015 14:19 GMT
#25
Dang it this is all over the internet.

I only see blue and black and those are the actual colors when you check so I think this is a massive hoax.
Umpteen
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United Kingdom1570 Posts
February 27 2015 14:20 GMT
#26
This is a strange one. To me the dress itself is obviously blue and black, but I'm looking at it with a fuzz of lens flare and high-iso noise over the top.

The XKCD image does illustrate how our eyes compensate for ambient light, but it doesn't explain anything here.

Look at it carefully: the XKCD picture in which the dress looks white is in a dark blue environment, so our eyes say "That must be a very bright pale dress to appear the way it does". But the dress in the OP is in a very bright, yellow environment (like the right-hand XKCD image) - so why are people seeing it as white?
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oneofthem
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-02-27 14:22:12
February 27 2015 14:21 GMT
#27
there's something more than contrast at work here. the reflective/hue effect of the strong background light can make you think that the colors are not from the dress.


when i first looked at the dress though it looked nothing like the rebalanced blue/black image, but after seeing that image and going back to the original it does look really blue/black. pretty weird and neat
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c0ldfusion
Profile Joined October 2010
United States8293 Posts
February 27 2015 14:23 GMT
#28
On February 27 2015 22:16 Oshuy wrote:
Yeyy let's get stupid !

[image loading]

Compliments to xkcd, exactly the same as MarlieChurly's one, but with colors similar to the dress example.

Edit: the point of course is that dress color is the same on both sides, only background changes, like the tiles A and B exactly have the same colors in the first example.

This doesn't even help. I still see blue and black.


The reason why the checkered floor illusion works is that it's only using the intensity adjustment that's automatic in our brains. There is no hue or saturation difference.
Probemicro
Profile Joined February 2014
3708 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-02-27 14:33:52
February 27 2015 14:30 GMT
#29
At first I see it as gold/white, but after reading through some comments and someone pic "analysis" that the actual color is blue/gold brown. I am NOW seeing it as blue/gold brown

Its really one of those nifty optical illusions that really depends on how your brain wants to mess with you

Look at the comments of this dress on amazon here BTW
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00SJEUCWU/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk
Oshuy
Profile Joined September 2011
Netherlands529 Posts
February 27 2015 14:32 GMT
#30
On February 27 2015 23:20 Umpteen wrote:
This is a strange one. To me the dress itself is obviously blue and black, but I'm looking at it with a fuzz of lens flare and high-iso noise over the top.

The XKCD image does illustrate how our eyes compensate for ambient light, but it doesn't explain anything here.

Look at it carefully: the XKCD picture in which the dress looks white is in a dark blue environment, so our eyes say "That must be a very bright pale dress to appear the way it does". But the dress in the OP is in a very bright, yellow environment (like the right-hand XKCD image) - so why are people seeing it as white?


It roughly the same thing. Depends if your brain interprets a bright lighting on the whole image (in which case the dress is in the light and blue/black) or if it interprets the dress as in the shadow against an overexposed background (say taken from inside a shop with a sunny street behind), in which case the dress registers as white.
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c0ldfusion
Profile Joined October 2010
United States8293 Posts
February 27 2015 14:33 GMT
#31
I still think everyone who says it's gold/white is a troll. -_-'
saltywet
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Hong Kong1316 Posts
February 27 2015 14:37 GMT
#32
On February 27 2015 23:33 c0ldfusion wrote:
I still think everyone who says it's gold/white is a troll. -_-'


I can see it possible to be very light blue, but i don't see anyway that can be black. It looks gold/white to me, even looking at explanation threads and seeing loads of other editted and anotated pictures.

Maybe if someone posted a picture of the dress on a table with light above the dress, l can see blue/black
Technique
Profile Joined March 2010
Netherlands1542 Posts
February 27 2015 14:49 GMT
#33
White and gold taken with a poor white balance camera.
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BallinWitStalin
Profile Joined July 2008
1177 Posts
February 27 2015 14:51 GMT
#34
How are people getting black out of this?

blue-gold for me.

The blue I can see people mistaking for white.

But I really don't get how that gold is supposed to be black.
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Dingodile
Profile Joined December 2011
4133 Posts
February 27 2015 14:55 GMT
#35
On February 27 2015 23:33 c0ldfusion wrote:
I still think everyone who says it's gold/white is a troll. -_-'

I (still) only see gold/white as real colour of this dress. This white tends to be dark white & very lightly violet because she stays at sun-shade.
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SKC
Profile Joined October 2010
Brazil18828 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-02-27 15:17:55
February 27 2015 14:58 GMT
#36
On February 27 2015 23:51 BallinWitStalin wrote:
How are people getting black out of this?

blue-gold for me.

The blue I can see people mistaking for white.

But I really don't get how that gold is supposed to be black.

People can see how lighting can add an yellow tint to the black dress. So even if it looks yellowish, they can see that the dress was originally black. The whole picture seems to be affected by an yellowish light.

The opposite is actually harder imo. I can't see how lighting would make a white dress this blue. Diferent shades of blue, like the XKCD pic sure, but it's always at least a light blue.
darthfoley
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States8003 Posts
February 27 2015 15:09 GMT
#37
I've never seen gold/white. I could understand people saying blue/dirty gold, but for me it's black and blue. Not to mention the real dress is actually black and blue.

Welcome to optical illusions lol
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Technique
Profile Joined March 2010
Netherlands1542 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-02-27 15:21:36
February 27 2015 15:18 GMT
#38
On February 27 2015 23:58 SKC wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 27 2015 23:51 BallinWitStalin wrote:
How are people getting black out of this?

blue-gold for me.

The blue I can see people mistaking for white.

But I really don't get how that gold is supposed to be black.

People can see how lighting can add an yellow tint to the black dress. So even if it looks yellowish, they can see that the dress was originally black. The whole picture seems to be affect by an yellowish light.

The opposite is actually harder imo. I can't see how lighting would make a white dress this blue. Diferent shades of blue, like the XKCD pic sure, but it's always at least a light blue.

Whites are never accurate on these crappy cameras.

And even high end dslr's you often see amateur photographers completely bodge the white balance.
So this is perfectly normal really.

But yeah I guess the dress is black/blue after all.
That's some mighty bad photograph. :D
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Zavior
Profile Joined August 2009
Finland753 Posts
February 27 2015 15:22 GMT
#39
Can see both white and blue depending on where I look at on the picture :|
linuxguru1
Profile Joined February 2012
110 Posts
February 27 2015 15:23 GMT
#40
On February 27 2015 23:58 SKC wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 27 2015 23:51 BallinWitStalin wrote:
How are people getting black out of this?

blue-gold for me.

The blue I can see people mistaking for white.

But I really don't get how that gold is supposed to be black.

People can see how lighting can add an yellow tint to the black dress. So even if it looks yellowish, they can see that the dress was originally black. The whole picture seems to be affected by an yellowish light.

The opposite is actually harder imo. I can't see how lighting would make a white dress this blue. Diferent shades of blue, like the XKCD pic sure, but it's always at least a light blue.


How can lighting make black appear brown/gold? Black does not reflect light rays, no matter what color the light is.
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