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MrMatt
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada225 Posts
February 27 2015 18:01 GMT
#101
On February 28 2015 02:58 Thax wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 28 2015 01:13 SKC wrote:
On February 28 2015 01:12 lolfail9001 wrote:
On February 28 2015 00:28 Powerpill wrote:
Simple lighting and shadow

I always loved this example
[image loading]

A and B are the same color btw

Edit: someone beat me to it, doh

My brain honestly can't figure out how A and B are same color, considering that A is same color as every other dark cell and my brain refuses to accept that B is not light cell.

The letters. Not the cells.


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.


The tiles represented by A and B are also the same colour. Take your hand and cover up most of the drawing so you just see the two colours without context
Umpteen
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United Kingdom1570 Posts
February 27 2015 18:03 GMT
#102
OK I just came back to this thread in a room with different lighting and for a second or two I saw white/gold (I thought someone had switched the image!)
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opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
February 27 2015 18:03 GMT
#103
On February 28 2015 02:55 Orek wrote:
No matter how many times I look at it, it just looks like blue(violet?)/gold.
Neither white/gold or blue/black happens to me.


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lolfail9001
Profile Joined August 2013
Russian Federation40190 Posts
February 27 2015 18:05 GMT
#104
On February 28 2015 03:01 MrMatt wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 28 2015 02:58 Thax wrote:
On February 28 2015 01:13 SKC wrote:
On February 28 2015 01:12 lolfail9001 wrote:
On February 28 2015 00:28 Powerpill wrote:
Simple lighting and shadow

I always loved this example
[image loading]

A and B are the same color btw

Edit: someone beat me to it, doh

My brain honestly can't figure out how A and B are same color, considering that A is same color as every other dark cell and my brain refuses to accept that B is not light cell.

The letters. Not the cells.


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.


The tiles represented by A and B are also the same colour. Take your hand and cover up most of the drawing so you just see the two colours without context

I found it more effective to just pick a color in GIMP and compare those. Turns out they are absolutely same. Damn, i went insane on this one, all hail Skynet.
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rudimentalfeelthelov
Profile Joined December 2013
Finland268 Posts
February 27 2015 18:46 GMT
#105
Talking about optical illusions, the orange middle square and the top brown square are actually exactly the same color. It's impossible to believe at first.

[image loading]
Godwrath
Profile Joined August 2012
Spain10142 Posts
February 27 2015 19:26 GMT
#106
On February 27 2015 23:33 c0ldfusion wrote:
I still think everyone who says it's gold/white is a troll. -_-'

That's how i see it. I can't see it in any other way lol. And i have two monitors :O
JieXian
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Malaysia4677 Posts
February 27 2015 19:32 GMT
#107
interested to see a video of it changing from black/blue to white gold.

I am only seeing white/gold
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Cheren
Profile Blog Joined September 2013
United States2911 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-02-27 20:52:27
February 27 2015 20:50 GMT
#108
turned my monitor brightness all the way down, looks black/blue, turned it back all the way up and it looks white/gold again

i think the difference in perception has to do with monitor glare. when there's glare on the screen it cancels out the yellow light and makes the dress look black/blue, when there's no glare the yellow light in the picture makes the dress look white/gold
Godwrath
Profile Joined August 2012
Spain10142 Posts
February 27 2015 21:06 GMT
#109
Yeah, i can see it perfectly as blue/black on my cellphone =/
FiWiFaKi
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada9859 Posts
February 27 2015 21:12 GMT
#110
I'm trying really hard to see it as blue + black. But nope, yellow and white to me regardless of how far away I look at it from, whether it's my monitor or cellphone, different brightness.

Pretty neat.

When I saw this on Facebook initially, I thought this was going to be this troll thing, like that fairy tale where a king gets a dress made out of gold and silver, and the one's who make it, keep all the gold and silver, and say tell the king the dress looks beautiful, and anyone who can't see it is stupid. And so the king is naked, but nobody wants to look stupid, so everyone admires his dress.
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Jockmcplop
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United Kingdom9842 Posts
February 27 2015 21:19 GMT
#111
On February 28 2015 03:03 opisska wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 28 2015 02:55 Orek wrote:
No matter how many times I look at it, it just looks like blue(violet?)/gold.
Neither white/gold or blue/black happens to me.


We need to start building an underground substructure of sane people to rule the world when everybody else will lose their ability to percieve reality.


Good luck finding some.
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SkelA
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Macedonia13076 Posts
February 27 2015 21:36 GMT
#112
Its black and blue ... how does white and gold is winning LOL?

Just look at the background there is too much light, maybe thats why you could see white/gold (wtf?).
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WolfintheSheep
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada14127 Posts
February 27 2015 21:44 GMT
#113
On February 28 2015 06:36 SkelA wrote:
Its black and blue ... how does white and gold is winning LOL?

Just look at the background there is too much light, maybe thats why you could see white/gold (wtf?).

I think the problem is the question being "What colour is this dress", not "What colours do you see in this picture".

It looks like a White and Gold dress that's in the shade and has all kind of lighting issues (and was taken from a low quality camera).
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Laserist
Profile Joined September 2011
Turkey4269 Posts
February 27 2015 21:46 GMT
#114
What black, seriously guys. Stop trolling , there is no black.
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Yurie
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
12084 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-02-27 21:58:07
February 27 2015 21:56 GMT
#115
I can see black in the cow pattern in the background. The dress looks nothing like it until I go below 10 in the contrast setting when everything looks black. The only way to tell is to look it up in an image editing program though, as somebody did on the first page.

There it is shown to be gold and blue (on my screen). Nowhere near the white or black on the scale.
PoP
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
France15446 Posts
February 27 2015 21:56 GMT
#116
On February 28 2015 06:46 Laserist wrote:
What black, seriously guys. Stop trolling , there is no black.


What white, seriously guys. Stop trolling, there is no white.

It's obviously not pure/perfect black we're seeing (just like you're probably not seeing perfect white on the other stripes). It's like black-ish with a golden tone generated by the reflected light.
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ROOTFayth
Profile Joined January 2004
Canada3351 Posts
February 27 2015 22:02 GMT
#117
I see pretty clear blue and black, I can tell though that there is light reflecting on the black that gives it some gold-ish tone as previous people said
batsnacks
Profile Blog Joined April 2014
United States4466 Posts
February 27 2015 22:07 GMT
#118
[image loading]

Poll: What are the colors of the square?

White and gold (2)
 
50%

Black and blue (2)
 
50%

4 total votes

Your vote: What are the colors of the square?

(Vote): White and gold
(Vote): Black and blue



puerk
Profile Joined February 2015
Germany855 Posts
February 27 2015 22:11 GMT
#119
ukraine?
nkr
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Sweden5451 Posts
February 27 2015 22:16 GMT
#120
On February 28 2015 07:07 batsnacks wrote:
[image loading]

Poll: What are the colors of the square?

White and gold (2)
 
50%

Black and blue (2)
 
50%

4 total votes

Your vote: What are the colors of the square?

(Vote): White and gold
(Vote): Black and blue





? the answer isnt even in the options. Red and Blue
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