Gonad the Barbarian
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- Oct 16, 1999
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To the people who see the bands on the dress as black, do they look like the same black that's on the cow print on the adjacent lower left?
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 own, 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.
To the people who see the bands on the dress as black, do they look like the same black that's on the cow print on the adjacent lower left?
There is no illusion.
It is a blue/black dress photographed with a shit camera, which makes it appear white/gold.
To the people who see the bands on the dress as black, do they look like the same black that's on the cow print on the adjacent lower left?
To the people who see the bands on the dress as black, do they look like the same black that's on the cow print on the adjacent lower left?
To me the lower "black" stripes have a bit of blue in them, likely from jpeg compression smearing. Otherwise, a less pure black, more charcoal than true black. The cows are a more even, darker charcoal.To the people who see the bands on the dress as black, do they look like the same black that's on the cow print on the adjacent lower left?
I see the self righteous dicks have arrived in our fair thread.
Still waiting to hear responses about the color of the dresses in the lower left of the picture. Very clearly black with white, although the white looks yellow-ish because of the shitty picture.
I've tried manipulating displays and it still shows up as blue and dark brown/grey to me.
What real colors? The dress is actually blue with some dark sorta lacy accent. Those are the actual colors of the fabric used for the dress.
I found the answer to this phenomenon.
Your brain interprets color based on CONTEXT and its past experience. If you see an apple in the dark, you interpret it as 'red' although 'scientific color value' is not red at all.
At a first glance....
If your brain interprets the picture as 'overexposed', then you see it as White & Gold based on that context.
If your brain interprets the picture as is, then you see it as Blue & White.
/thread.
What's hilarious for me is that I can't see it as White & Gold whatsoever. It's so plainly Blue & White.
the plane will not take off!
/me takes his color blind ass out of this thread
How are people seeing any white? Even a white dress with a blue light on the dress wouldn't be that blue. The most bizarre thing about this even being a question is that anyone can easily download the pic, open it in paint, and use the eye dropper to get the RGB values of the colors.
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.
How are people seeing any white? Even a white dress with a blue light on the dress wouldn't be that blue. The most bizarre thing about this even being a question is that anyone can easily download the pic, open it in paint, and use the eye dropper to get the RGB values of the colors.
Well I was only seeing white/gold at first, but going back between the cow print and the dress got my brain to flip it to blue/black. I thought the people who were seeing blue/black were crazy but there it is now.
Isn't it soo cool?
I know I'm a dweeb. The guy with the magic eyes on his wall at work. I'm sad that it didin't work on me. I love the WOW moments when illusions flip.
It almost never happens that stuff like this hits the limelight. I look forward to more professionally done illusions because of the publicity.
I see the self righteous dicks have arrived in our fair thread.