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What color is the dress?

  • inthemanual%s's Photo

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    Be aware that your answer may affect my ability to draft you.

  • Coasterbill%s's Photo

    Fuck you. I thought I could avoid the dress at NE. lol

     

    (And anyone who says white, you're wrong).

  • Ling%s's Photo

    This is really really interesting actually. I mean, I hate how pervasive it has suddenly become but what's actually going on is peoples' brains are trying to decide whether the picture was taken in shadow of daylight (bluish) or under store lights (fluorescent or incandescent) and trying to correct. So your brain either tries to correct for a blue filter or a yellow filter and this affects your perception of the colors. The first time I saw it it was plainly obvious that it was white and gold. When it started to pick up more traction and I heard more people talking about it, I returned to the thread on it and it was suddenly blue and black. I'll try to find some of the cool graphics people have created to help explain it.

  • inthemanual%s's Photo

    http://imgs.xkcd.com...dress_color.png

  • Dirk Pitt%s's Photo

    One explanation I heard for people seeing Blue/Black is that they have a red/green deficiency in their rod/cones vision. Even though the dress is actually blue and black, but the photo itself is overexposed which is why it actually is whitebluish /gold and photoshop supports this.

  • inthemanual%s's Photo

    Except you're wrong. Photoshop works both ways. The illusion occurs because our eyes can't tell if it's over or under-exposed at first glance, but it's obviously underexposed, when looking at any of the surroundings. Thus, it's actually black/blue. Now I'm glad I didn't pick you :D

  • Stoksy%s's Photo

    I have seen this soooo many times, and yet every time it's white and gold for me. Except when it's not...uhm.

  • csw%s's Photo
    I predominantly see it as white and gold, but I can flip between blue and black and white and gold pretty easily.
  • ScOtLaNdS_FiNeSt%s's Photo

    its blue and black, all those saying not, "you should have gone to specsavers"

  • Otsdarva%s's Photo

    Trick question. The real answer is: "The dress doesn't make you look fat, honey"

  • Stoksy%s's Photo


    "you should have gone to specsavers"

     

     

    Is specsavers an international thing? Because I really hope everyone will be able to understand the hilarity of this.

  • Louis!%s's Photo

    Pretty sure it is

  • csw%s's Photo
    Not in America. Never heard of it.
  • Dirk Pitt%s's Photo

    Except you're wrong. Photoshop works both ways. The illusion occurs because our eyes can't tell if it's over or under-exposed at first glance, but it's obviously underexposed, when looking at any of the surroundings. Thus, it's actually black/blue. Now I'm glad I didn't pick you :D

     

    http://theconcourse....ly-b-1688352412

    Also the photo is over exposed, not under, thats why the background is all white and bright. If it were under exposed, the background would be a hell lot darker, including the dress. Just focus on the right side of the photo and not the dress, it is all white-washed which is associated with over-exposure.

    Also about the rod and cones - look here:
    http://gizmodo.com/w...aine-1688364883

    Glad I'm on trav's #whiteandgold team ;)

  • inthemanual%s's Photo

    That's pixel sampling, it tells you nothing about the environment, or whether the photo was over or under exposed.

  • ScOtLaNdS_FiNeSt%s's Photo

    These 2 lassies are from tiny islands in the outer hebrides. Its over exposed because the only real light they see is the one from there camera. Twas a sheep that took this photo. 

  • AvanineCommuter%s's Photo

    The dress is black and blue.

     

    I see blue and gold - but based on the picture's lighting I know that is because of the warm light that is cast on the black lace.

     

    I cannot understand how people see white; I know that the periwinkle blue is supposed to be a shadowy white, but based on the bright, warm-toned light coming from the back it's impossible that this dress has that shadow cast so evenly over the front.

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