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who cares what color it is, all dresses look the same when dropped to the floor

I saw gold/white. I also saw two other versions of the dress next to it. And it's been said by many that both are correct, just depends on your eyes. Don't need someone on here telling me I'm 100% wrong.

Blue and black, she cheated by using the lighting. Also, feth this photo. How it got around to Dakka I will never no.

 -Shrike- wrote:
Definitely blue/black. I mean, damnit, if you invert the colours on Photoshop (ie. create a negative) you can get white/gold, so I have no bloody clue how people can see that from the original.

I can flip between them depending where I look at the picture. In fact, when I first looked at it quickly, I saw it as light blue and gold. If I cover all but the bottom of the dress, it looks like a blue and black dress in a bright light. If I look at the whole picture, it looks like a white and gold dress in a shadow or back-lit.

This is a good example of how context can make one shade or color look different.

A and B are the exact same color.


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The real question is, of course: White and Gold Marines or Blue and Black Marines?

They are both shades of grey. I see that.

Now explain this monstrous head feth you have just inflicted on me

Blue and gold.

 Bullockist wrote:
They are both shades of grey. I see that.

Now explain this monstrous head feth you have just inflicted on me

Are you asking me?

Here is an article about it.

 Bullockist wrote:
They are both shades of grey. I see that.

Now explain this monstrous head feth you have just inflicted on me

Context causes our brain to trick itself. You see a shadow, therefore you compensate and believe that square b is the lighter shade of grey when it really isn't.

This is freaky, first I saw it as white and gold, then I looked again 2 minutes ltaer and it was black and blue.

I suppose it's a question of.

"What colour is the dress?" And "what colour is the picture of the dress?"

I dunno about the first one, but to my eyes, my answer for the second would be 'blue (lavenderish?) and gold.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

My brain hears what you are saying but my eyes don't see it. Guhuh!

My friend showed me this yesterday, I thought she was trying to annoy me on purpose. But if I stand further back from the screen and squint, the white and gold image of the dress does look blue and black. Though people who see it that way up close must have really dodgy eyesight/screens.

 Smacks wrote:
My friend showed me this yesterday, I thought she was trying to annoy me on purpose. But if I stand further back from the screen and squint, the white and gold image of the dress does look blue and black. Though people who see it that way up close must have really dodgy eyesight/screens.

Not really. If you concentrate on the "gold", you see it's really just the light bouncing off it.

If you auto-correct the washed out picture for contrast, it's blue and black, like the actual dress.

 Smacks wrote:
Though people who see it that way up close must have really dodgy eyesight/screens.

Or they just recognize that it's a photo of a blue and black dress with really poor white balance and exposure settings. Don't forget that the actual dress is blue and black, so anyone claiming that it's "really" white and gold is simply wrong.

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 Swastakowey wrote:

http://brainden.com/color-illusions.htm

Nobody is wrong.

Nope. People who say the dress is gold / white are wrong. Hands down. The IMAGE of the dress, or rather that specific one, makes it look like it's white / gold.

That sounds about right.

Ceci n'est pas une pipe.

But sometimes a pipe is just a pipe, even when it's a drawing!

Real answer : blue and black
Perceived answer: grey and gold
Preferred answer: transparent

 Peregrine wrote:
Don't forget that the actual dress is blue and black, so anyone claiming that it's "really" white and gold is simply wrong.

That is why I was careful to state that I was talking about the white and gold image of the dress. I believe you that the colours are false, however, it has been shown with colour sampling that the pixles being output are closer to white and gold, certainly no black.

So people are absolutely fascinated by any sort of crap they see on Facebook these days? Yes it is kinda cool, but seriously, get the feth over it.

Saw it as light grey-blue and gold. I know for a fact that while my depth perception and distance vision is rubbish I have perfect color perception so its obviously a lighting trick.

Ultimate marketing, and it occured by complete accident.

I bet a lot of ad agencies are looking at how to capitalise on this and kicking themselves that they didn't simply engineer this for their own product and reap free publicity and kudos for their advertising house.

It isn't really blue and gold. More like light blue and brown. A slight greenish brown.

 Grey Templar wrote:

 Bullockist wrote:
They are both shades of grey. I see that.

Now explain this monstrous head feth you have just inflicted on me

Context causes our brain to trick itself. You see a shadow, therefore you compensate and believe that square b is the lighter shade of grey when it really isn't.

Plus, they cheated and used a checkerboard pattern.

The only thing better than the dress are the responses:

 Ouze wrote:
Last night I couldn't sleep. I reached for my phone and opened facebook, and saw one of these posts immediately. I was utterly certain it was white and gold and had no idea how anyone could think otherwise.

I read some more stuff and went back to it, and was surprised that it was now clearly blue and black. Unambiguously. I spent the 20 minutes trying to figure it out. I could not see white and gold again.

This morning I woke up and checked immediately. It was white and gold, and I was like yeaaah, I'm not crazy.

Oh, I wouldn't jump so quick into conclusions

Anyhoo, basically the whole thing is about our brain trying to correct obviously bad lighting in the original picture. Some people's brain corrects it to white & gold, others blue & black: now, the latter group is correct, but only by coincidence - not because they're smarter!

Really interesting thing is how few people saw it as blue/gold (the actual colours in the original picture) and NOBODY saw it as white/black. Apparently, our brain realizes somehow that such a colour combination would be impossible with that lighting and disregards the whole idea.

(btw, I originally saw it white & gold, then later it turned to blue & black. I can still see the white/gold but only with help of changed reference colours).


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 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

A and B are the exact same color.

Although it is (partly) the same principle, TheDress is actually trickier than the famous Grey square illusion: because, it is not hard for us to consciously realize that light grey might look as dark grey under different lighting conditions: however with the dress, we have blue turning into white, and black turning into gold - completely unintuitive! That's why it has people baffled.

Death to the black/blue heathens!

(For the record, no matter what I do, I cannot see the dress in the original pic as anything other than white/gold.)

Black/blue.

Whatever color it is, it makes her ass look big.



::Earns doghouse points::

I just got utterly berated by my work colleague just now for asking her this... Seems it's been all over Facebook. I don't Facebook. Whoops...

She's right, whatever she says is right. She scares me and is not a little attractive. So she's right. Right? Right....