Ok, did everybody do the dress test that was all the rage yesterday? Can someone tell me what it’s all about? Is it a ploy to get links? Because the dress is obviously white and gold.
The Dress Thing
Opinions, art, debate
Opinions, art, debate
Ok, did everybody do the dress test that was all the rage yesterday? Can someone tell me what it’s all about? Is it a ploy to get links? Because the dress is obviously white and gold.
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Blue and gold!
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WTF? Where do you see blue? ??
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It comes up different colors on different versions. The one you linked to is brown and blue for me. But, the ones I was seeing on FB were white and gold.
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Blue and black.
Where do you see white or gold?
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If these were not the readers I trust, I’d think you guys are having me on.
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Look at those photos:
Case solved: This is the true color of that goddamn white and gold dress
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-is-the-real-color-of-that-goddamn-white-and-gold-d-1688381523
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It’s still white and gold to me.
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It’s not the version –
We looked at it at the office and were divided as far as the colors. It’s something weird. 🙂
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On the same screen?
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On the same screen, at the same time. It was quite shocking.
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I’m shopping alone but I’m about to start approaching random strangers to ask them to look at it on my screen.
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It’s all due to the magic of ambient lighting. I also suspect instagram filters. :p
Here:<a href=” http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/'>http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/
People are stuck huddled inside and are going nuts. A pair of llamas trended on Twitter yesterday, so it was the slowest day ever.
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Ok, let me go outside and look at it in daylight.
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In the very bright sunlight it’s still gold and white. It’s not the ambient light.
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I think he meant the lighting when the picture was taken.
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“I think he meant the lighting when the picture was taken.”
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The point is that there is very little of the surroundings on the photo, most of it shows the dress. So some people’s brains perceive the dress to be in natural lightning (near the window), which is blue and they therefore compensate for this and the dress appears to them as white and gold. Other people’s brains assume artificial lightning which is yellowish and the brain compensates for this to perceive the dress and black and blue. See the video I linked below, it explains this very nicely.
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Liked the comment:
“I think the internet is missing a more important question, namely where can I get this cute dress?”
🙂
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The one I’m seeing is butt ugly. 🙂
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On my home screen it’s only blue and black for me.
I keep waiting to see it as white and gold but….. don’t.
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It’s a visual illusion, the colours your brain perceives depend on the surrounding colours. For example, here, both dresses are of the same colour, but the right one appears darker, because it is surrounded by white:
http://xkcd.com/
And here is a good explanation why and how this happens:
So it’s a question of visual perception and where your brain thinks the photo was taken (in a well-lit daylight place with bluish surroundings, which would produce a white dress or in a yellow-tinted inside room, where it might look blue).
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And on the desktop at home it’s still white and gold.
I will keep trying on other screens. :_)
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I seem to be the only person who sees the dress as blue (sky blue) and gold.
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I had no doubt that you, David, would be original in everything. 🙂
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See, I could see that because the white I’m seeing is very bluish.
My brain refuses to see the dress as black and blue; that is very bad photography/post processing.
P.S. Either way, that dress is ugly.
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Ugly as hell.
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I just saw it on TV and it’s still gold and white!
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I showed the picture to a friend who stopped by and on the same computer, same lighting conditionsm same angle I saw blue/black and he saw white/gold and was wondering out loud if I was crazy for not seeing white/gold.
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Scary shit. I now REALLY want my husband to get home from work as soon as possible to ask him what he sees. I might have to rethink our entire relationship if we do not see the same thing. 🙂 I mean, what’s next? He will look at Putin and see Russia’s Savior??? 🙂
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I think the images of the dress manage to form something very similar to those optical illusions where you stare at a white page and then the colors reverse. I have seen the white-and-gold for an instant and then can only see blue-and-black. I think the difference is not different screens but rather how your visual system is primed for the viewing. (There may also be differences in our brains or retinas for how we perceive color…in other words, your friends and family might “adjust” to the image differently.) Most people seem to see white-and-gold first and then snap to “blue and black” (which is the actual color of the dress; if you open the image in a photo editor you can pick the pixels and verify this). I imagine that’s because most people are viewing the image on a scree and that influences how they view it…my guess is that people who glance at it after looking at other things — the world out there — have their visual systems “primed” for a different contrast.
That’s just my guess though. I cannot force myself to see “gold and white”…it just happened once. Although, if I tilt my laptop screen, I can get the angle large enough so that things look darker and then the colors start to shift…
How we perceive colors together in the wild is a fascinating topic!
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I’ve been trying to see the blue and black since yesterday, and I can’t. It makes even less sense when I see the catalogue picture of what the dress is supposed to actually look like.
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That catalog picture looks nothing like this dress in terms of shape and texture. I think it’s extraneous to the issue of why all these weirdos keep saying they see black and blue.
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Oh, I was talking entirely about the image; some artists out there are talking about the dress itself…all we can judge now is the picture that is set before us. The fact that the image is perceived differently by different people and at different times is fascinating. The whole discussion of color and light and dress fabric and digital cameras and what your monitor color settings are…I’m not even touching all those topics.
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To me, it looked black and whatever other colour, but in the sense easily mistaken for a somewhat “dirty” gold in the light the picture was taken in.
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My husband says it’s white and gold and I’m happy he and I see the world the same way.
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Well it’s certainly good that you and your husband share that!
(On second look it could almost look like an interweaving of black and gold thread…)
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I’ve stared and stared but I’m not seeing anything like black.
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This video apparently explains the science behind it:
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