What color is this dress??? (the interwebs are asploding)......

[redgtxdi]

For the Blue & Blackers...do you have troubles adjusting to darkness quickly? Like when a light turns off, does it take you a while to adjust? That's one thing I'm reading. People that see the white and gold are able to adjust faster in poor lighting. That holds true for my wife and I.

The catch is that those of us who have troubles with lighting are better at interpreting color.

Opinions?

Vi,

FWIW, I'm *horrible* at adjusting after the lights are off. I'm not 20/20 but pretty close, but when the lights go off, I literally have to hang for a few seconds til I get at least a few dark details.

Yet, I still can only see (today, yesterday since my daughter hit me with it at the front door) white & gold. Nothing else.

And thanks to everyone for making me laugh so friggin' hard. Last night I just about pissed myself reading some of the comments. Especially once some of the hard-core, "I ain't got no time for that" ATOT old-schoolers started realizing this was one friggin' mind-boggling reality!!!

It ain't about the dress, or wasting time on the internet, it's just as interesting as a solar eclipse or watching a magic trick and it simply boggles the mind of everyone & just happened to go viral because it affected EVERYBODY. And THAT'S what makes this whole dress thing interesting.

(I'd have otherwise posted about Chris Froome kicking Alberto Contador's @$$ last night at the TDA but nobody would give a sh!T about that here)

 

[IronWing]

I see it as blue and brown with the brown going to charcoal gray in the shadows. I took the image into an editor to apply different effects to force it to white gold. Nothing worked. Maybe a high temp color white balance correction might work to push the blue to white but I don't know if that would pull the brown to gold.

 

[Arcadio]

It's funny seeing people convinced that the dress is either blue/black or white/gold and basically thinking that anyone who doesn't see it their way is basically blind/stupid. Arrogance at its best.

BTW, first time I saw the picture the dress looked blue/black. After a few minutes I came back to the picture and now the dress looked white/gold. It's amazing the way the brain processes the same picture in two completely different ways.

 

[luv2liv]

it was white/gold to me at first. last night and this morning.
now i only see black/blue. im thinking the page randomly loads different versions????
wth

 

[TXHokie]

That's gold, Jerry! Gold!

 

[Nograts]

It's blue/black on my S4. You white/gold people are fuckin high.

 

[Daedalus685]

It's funny seeing people convinced that the dress is either blue/black or white/gold and basically thinking that anyone who doesn't see it their way is basically blind/stupid. Arrogance at its best.

BTW, first time I saw the picture the dress looked blue/black. After a few minutes I came back to the picture and now the dress looked white/gold. It's amazing the way the brain processes the same picture in two completely different ways.

This is the best part for me. How hilariously self centered and arrogant people are. I experience life in this way therefor that is the only way life can be experienced correctly.

Applies to so many things in the world; politics, science, health, sports, etc. But it takes a silly picture to show just how ridiculous the narcissism is.

 

[IronWing]

I see the self righteous dicks have arrived in our fair thread.

 

[TheAdvocate]

Not reading 7+ pages on this, but i showed the dress to my wife this morning on my tablet. We looked at the same screen and disagreed, so I don't think it's a display issue.

Any chance it can be slight differences in the way humans perceive UV or other portions of the light spectrum? I'm thinking at the extremes, with it being much more likely that the middle of the band is more uniform in perception...?

Just a guess. I have zero techinical/science background.

 

[HN]

I see a viral campaign who's intent was to get lots of women who love attention to get "that" dress.

dont' know if they're the ones behind it, but the company selling the dress is definitely taking advantage of the hoopla ( the '#Thedress' in the title and meta wasn't there last night):

http://www.romanoriginals.co.uk/

 

[Daedalus685]

I see the self righteous dicks have arrived in our fair thread.

Yes we have. #Redandyellow

Edited for communist colours.

 

[Daedalus685]

Not reading 7+ pages on this, but i showed the dress to my wife this morning on my tablet. We looked at the same screen and disagreed, so I don't think it's a display issue.

Any chance it can be slight differences in the way humans perceive UV or other portions of the light spectrum? I'm thinking at the extremes, with it being much more likely that the middle of the band is more uniform in perception...?

Just a guess. I have zero techinical/science background.

It's an optical illusion. It has less to do with the actual photon proportions (the 'true colour') and more to do with how our brain interprets it. Colour is subjective in many cases, and can be affected greatly by context and lighting. Our minds try to filter out the affects of lighting and so forth but can be tricked, just like in the 'which square is darker illusion'.

 

[Zeze]

Not reading 7+ pages on this, but i showed the dress to my wife this morning on my tablet. We looked at the same screen and disagreed, so I don't think it's a display issue.

Any chance it can be slight differences in the way humans perceive UV or other portions of the light spectrum? I'm thinking at the extremes, with it being much more likely that the middle of the band is more uniform in perception...?

Just a guess. I have zero techinical/science background.

Answer

Nothing to do with UV or different monitors.

 

[Stopsignhank]

It's funny seeing people convinced that the dress is either blue/black or white/gold and basically thinking that anyone who doesn't see it their way is basically blind/stupid. Arrogance at its best.

BTW, first time I saw the picture the dress looked blue/black. After a few minutes I came back to the picture and now the dress looked white/gold. It's amazing the way the brain processes the same picture in two completely different ways.

This is the best part for me. How hilariously self centered and arrogant people are. I experience life in this way therefor that is the only way life can be experienced correctly.

Applies to so many things in the world; politics, science, health, sports, etc. But it takes a silly picture to show just how ridiculous the narcissism is.

If you put on a green shirt, go into work and people start telling you that you look horrible in red, tell me your not going start yelling at them you have on a green shirt.

 

[TXHokie]

I saw on the news they showed the picture of the dress in one frame and a woman supposedly wearing the same dress live. The picture is gold/white while the dress being worn is black/blue. My wife still see the picture as black/blue.

The obvious solution now is to buy a bigger tv.

 

[Arcadio]

If you put on a green shirt, go into work and people start telling you that you look horrible in red, tell me your not going start yelling at them you have on a green shirt.

I wouldn't start yelling. I would become genuinely curious as to why some people might perceive the shirt as being a different color. It might make for some interesting workplace discussion. I guess I don't suffer from anger issues.

 

[Daedalus685]

If you put on a green shirt, go into work and people start telling you that you look horrible in red, tell me your not going start yelling at them you have on a green shirt.

It would be very difficult to construct a shirt that was context independent in its fun illusions.

I am not the person to be asking that question too. I studied optics and have a collection of illusions. I understand that many people don't get that our view of the world is subjective and context dependent. I just enjoy how intense one's view is defended instead of the response being "oh neat, this is so cool how different people see things'.

The irony of the fact intense defense of my "curiosity" is the exact same thing is not lost on me either

 

[Schfifty Five]

I see white/gold, or at least a very dingy/dark version of white and gold.

However, I can understand and also sorta see how the white can appear somewhat blue (or is it the blue appears somewhat white?), but I'm having a hard time seeing how the "gold" portion is black.

I do believe the dress in reality is blue/black, but from the picture, I just can't see the gold part being black.

 

[TheAdvocate]

I saw on the news they showed the picture of the dress in one frame and a woman supposedly wearing the same dress live. The picture is gold/white while the dress being worn is black/blue. My wife still see the picture as black/blue.

The obvious solution now is to buy a bigger tv.

Lemonade from lemons, my friends.

These guys want in too, I bet:

 

[vi edit]

It would be very difficult to construct a shirt that was context independent in its fun illusions.

I am not the person to be asking that question too. I studied optics and have a collection of illusions. I understand that many people don't get that our view of the world is subjective and context dependent. I just enjoy how intense one's view is defended instead of the response being "oh neat, this is so cool how different people see things'.

The irony of the fact that my defense of my "curiosity" is the exact same thing is not lost on me either

It was fun at my house last night. My wife was in the white/gold camp. I was blue/black.

She asked if I had been drinking. No. Do I need my eyes checked. No. And then we walked around the house pointing at random objects and asking the color. I'd take the phone and hold it close to other colors that matched. I continued to see blue and black (washed out black for sure, but black). She still insisted gold and white.

It's quite crazy how convicted we are to our beliefs.

 

[twinrider1]

White and gold.
This morning I'd have bet money on it. I swore it was an internet trick; people posting two pics of two different dresses.

But just now, I found I can flip it. If I close my eyes almost all the way, don't squint, just close them almost all the way.....and I can flip it. But really, anything appears black if you take away enough light. We're just playing in that in-between area.

And now I can't get it to flip back to white and gold. Damn it.

Ok, now I see a sailing ship.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

We need a poll.
Also, in the pictures the dress is white/gold and in real life that dress is white/gold and it always will be white/gold.

 

[phucheneh]

It's an optical illusion. It has less to do with the actual photon proportions (the 'true colour') and more to do with how our brain interprets it. Colour is subjective in many cases, and can be affected greatly by context and lighting. Our minds try to filter out the affects of lighting and so forth but can be tricked, just like in the 'which square is darker illusion'.

There is no illusion.

It is a blue/black dress photographed with a shit camera, which makes it appear white/gold.

Those are facts. They are not up for interpretation. We know what the dress actually looks like, and we know it is extremely strange for a picture to be so terrible as to:

-wash out a deep blue until it appears off-white. Yes, the color is still technically a shade of 'blue,' but anyone who's used Photoshop a bit will tell you that pictures of white things often end up with a very similar blue tinge.

-magically turn black into gold. This is an even greater accomplishment in technology terribleness, really, but I suspect there are one or two extra elements at play: the top of the dress is see-through, allowing sunlight to seep through, and the rest of the fabric may may be of the kinda-shiny satin variety, reflecting light in a way that would not be expected from black.

...but it did. I guess the question is just whether your brain sees what is literally there, or whether it tries to do detective work, unbeknownst to its owner, and extrapolate the original colors of the dress.

Now, the people who flip-flop back and forth and swear the picture is being changed out on them: you're just crazy.

 

[Thebobo]

 

[IronWing]

We do need a poll.

White/Gold - yes, my water is fluoridated
White/Gold - no, my water is not fluoridated
Blue/Brown - yes, my water is fluoridated
Blue/Brown - no, my water is not fluoridated
Blue/Brown/Gold/White - Shorty would look great in that dress.