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- mg330
This is a true semantic nightmare when you think about it.
"What colors do you see?" vs "What color is the dress?" are such different things.
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- PonyBoy0
I saw gold from the start... cuz that's what I do... stay gold
- Akagiyama0
It's black and blue for me.
- sem0
I agree with the general view here, it should NOT have been on the news etc. There are much important matters to cover, however please don't let a dress stress you out :)
- i_monk0
It's bluish-white and brown.
- PonyBoy0
I see gray/purple/blue and brown.... but I KNOW it's white and gold cuz of the back light killing the foreground light and making the material darker (less lit)... ... but yeah— I SEE gray/purple/blue and brown(ish)
- pango0
Fuck you internet!
- pango0
Gold is not a colour!
I see brown and light purple
- pinkfloyd0
I could see how people couldn't think black, but the warm tint makes me see a dark olive.
- sea_sea0
Change the brightness of your screen, see if it changes for you.
I first saw white and gold, bumped up to highest brightness setting turned it into blue and black. Now I can't see it white anymore.
- dbloc0
"Your eyes have retinas, the things that let you interpret color. There's rods, round things, and cones that stick out, which is what gives your eye a textured appearance in the colored part. The "cones" see color. The "rods" see shade, like black, white and grey. Cones only work when enough light passes through. So while I see the fabric as white, someone else may see it as blue because my cones aren't responding to the dim lighting. My rods see it as a shade (white).
There's three cones: small, medium and large. They are blue sensitive, green sensitive, and red sensitive.
As for the black bit (which I see as gold), it's called additive mixing. Blue, green and red are the main colors for additive mixing. This is where it gets really tricky. Subtractive mixing, such as with paint, means the more colors you add the murkier it gets until its black. ADDITIVE mixing, when you add the three colors the eyes see best, red, green and blue, (not to be confused with primary colors red, blue and yellow) it makes pure white.
—Blue and Black: In conclusion, your retina's cones are more high functioning, and this results in your eyes doing subtractive mixing.
—White and Gold: our eyes don't work well in dim light so our retinas rods see white, and this makes them less light sensitive, causing additive mixing, (that of green and red), to make gold."
And this user says he turned his phone's brightness from low to high and saw the colors switching.
So give that a shot, maybe.
- sem0
EXPLAINED: http://gizmodo.com/what-the-fuck…
- mg330
pango,
Those tests are great. But the photo in question is a piece of shit, poorly lit, blurry photo that is a horrible image to use for such a test / optical illusion / gotcha question.
- sem0
- mg330
I hate the world so much tonight. I just really do.
- Frosty_spl0
HOLY SHIT I thought it was blue and black earlier. I even adjusted the levels in photoshop.
I just saw white and gold!!! What is wrong with me?
- a_aachen0
i am very confused. saw gold white this afternoon, couldn´t even imagine that s.o. sees black blue. now in the evening it is exactly the opposite. even checked on different devices. so strange.
I guess it has something to do with the light situation