EPTNot a joke, what colors is this dress? - Page 5
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45193 Posts
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SolaR-
United States2685 Posts
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PoP
France15446 Posts
On February 28 2015 01:57 opisska wrote: This is one of the things that make me feel too old for the internet. So many people comment on a completely mundane image of completely mundane dress as if it were the Second coming. What the fuck is so interesting about the fact that if you change brightness of a picture, colors look different, as well as if you take images with bad exposure? What is ambiguous about colors on an image which can be easily once for ever measured in any graphics program, as it is done at the very beginning of this thread? I just don't get it. No matter the lighting conditions (even angle or anything else) I always see blue and black, without any hesitation (a bit brown/goldish looking but I feel like the dress is black). It's not just a matter of brightness, it's a really interesting case. Agree that the buzz level has been a bit too high for "just" something like this though. | ||
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Cheren
United States2911 Posts
On February 28 2015 02:14 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: It's a cute little illusion because of the poor/ reflected quality of the dress, but it's actually a black and blue dress. yeah it looks white/gold (but apparently not to everyone which is weird) because the picture's overexposed | ||
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SolaR-
United States2685 Posts
On February 28 2015 02:26 Cheren wrote: yeah it looks white/gold (but apparently not to everyone which is weird) because the picture's overexposed I saw it in white/gold until I saw the photo of the actual dress of blue and black. Now I see the dress in blue and black. Neat little illusion. | ||
BisuDagger
Bisutopia19300 Posts
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Daray
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![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/Ios1eOY.jpg) Your brain is just trying to create a context and it's one or the other, even changing when looking at it again. Apparently the most interesting thing in the internet this year, what a time to be alive. | ||
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andrewlt
United States7702 Posts
On February 28 2015 02:26 Cheren wrote: yeah it looks white/gold (but apparently not to everyone which is weird) because the picture's overexposed That's what makes it interesting. If it was an optical illusion that fooled everybody, nobody would care. It's the different answers that people came up with that made it explode like it did. | ||
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opisska
Poland8852 Posts
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SolaR-
United States2685 Posts
On February 28 2015 02:40 opisska wrote: I still don't believe there is any illusion at all. It's either people trolling to go along with the idea of the illusion, or just people with very badly calibrated monitors. nope. I can see it white/gold a d black/blue on the same screen without changing any brightness. I am on my smart phone. It just all depends on how you look at it, and the way your eyes focus on the background. | ||
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marvellosity
United Kingdom36161 Posts
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MrMatt
Canada225 Posts
On February 28 2015 02:30 Daray wrote: Your brain is just trying to create a context and it's one or the other, even changing when looking at it again. Apparently the most interesting thing in the internet this year, what a time to be alive. If you look at the cow pattern fabric behind the dress you get the 'colour balance' of the scene. So you can see what white and black look like. since the dress doesnt have a blue spotlight on it it is blue and black. under with an over exposed yellow cast. | ||
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SolaR-
United States2685 Posts
On February 28 2015 02:45 marvellosity wrote: Just saw it blue/black for the first time. Then it went back to white (or pale blue)/gold. Can't get it back to black/blue no matter how I scroll/look D: try looking at another picture of the dress with the colors fixed then go back to the original image and you should be able to see black and blue again. That is what usually works for me. | ||
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opisska
Poland8852 Posts
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SKC
Brazil18828 Posts
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Daray
6006 Posts
On February 28 2015 02:47 MrMatt wrote: If you look at the cow pattern fabric behind the dress you get the 'colour balance' of the scene. So you can see what white and black look like. since the dress doesnt have a blue spotlight on it it is blue and black. under with an over exposed yellow cast. Yeah, i can't see the white/gold anymore since i actually saw another pic of the dress and all the other "research" that's out there. Thing is though, it's all about the first glance and how your brain sees it at that moment, i'm not sure if it's possible to try to rationalize yourself to see anything else IF you don't actually know what it is you're looking at. | ||
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Orek
1665 Posts
Neither white/gold or blue/black happens to me. | ||
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marvellosity
United Kingdom36161 Posts
On February 28 2015 02:50 opisska wrote: IDK may be it has something to do with the fact that I have done too much DTP and can not only see immediately roughly what colors are in an image, but also how bad it would look on paper in our cheap 4-colour print on various kinds of paper... but I just see no way to misinterpret these colours. The dress takes most of the picture, so there is no real way to "immerse" in the scene, making the rest of the image largely irrelevant - and then it's just two kinds of pretty homogeneous areas with pretty clear hues. Fortunately you don't have to get it, you can just let other people enjoy themselves. | ||
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Thax
Belgium1060 Posts
Oooooh. I was seriously confused. Thinking the squares were supposed to be the same color. I see the letters A and B as the same color though. Same with the xkcd picture. No matter the background the dresses have exactly the same colors to me (white-blueish and gold). At least now I know what that was all about when I saw it at xkcd earlier. I just saw identical dresses in different backgrounds and was a little confused at what it was supposed to say. | ||
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SKC
Brazil18828 Posts
On February 28 2015 02:58 Thax wrote: Oooooh. I was seriously confused. Thinking the squares were supposed to be the same color. I see the letters A and B as the same color though. Same with the xkcd picture. No matter the background they have exactly the same colors to me. At least now I know what that was all about when I saw it at xkcd earlier. I just saw identical dresses in different backgrounds and was a little confused at what it was supposed to say. It is the squares. I was wrong, thinking of a diferent illusion. For those illusions, you should be seeing diferent colors. Everyone does. It's wrong, but it is consistent. | ||
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