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

[ImpulsE69]

I just came in here awe struck by all the interest that people on the internet have over this stupid thing. Shirts that change color based on body heat...anyone remember those back in the 90's? Yeah that interests me more than what color this dress is.

All you are saying is "I don't understand". It has very little to do with what color the dress is or isn't.

I honestly didn't care either (when this thread popped up). It wasn't until I saw a news article on it that I even looked. It was at that point my mind went..wtf?

 

[Carson Dyle]

Shit. It's all blue and black now.

 

[trmiv]

So it was white/gold. Then it turned blue/gold and it wouldn't change back. Then I had some wine and it's now white/gold again.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

My 3 year old daughter said "white and yellow" my 5 year old son said "gray and blue-stripy"

 

[HamburgerBoy]

lol @ everyone that picked white and gold.

 

[Red Squirrel]

The white might possibly be a light blue, but it's not really possible to tell by just looking at a picture without any other references. Depending on white balance of camera white stuff can sometimes look blue. Over exposure can also change things. That is definitely gold, or light brown, again, colour balance and exposure can influence that.

No idea where people are seeing black. The small stripes may potentially be black but they look more like it's the same colour as the white but they are just embossed so the shadow makes them darker.

But regardless, it's pretty hilarious how a simple picture has got a bunch of guys on the internet arguing over a dress.

 

[doubledeluxe]

The mindfuck of this changing for me is what's so confusing.

 

[WelshBloke]

OK, that is weird. I clicked the link, and of the 10 or so pages I've visited regarding this, that is the first one that I actually saw it as blue and black. EDIT: now they all are blue and black. boom. I've been brainwashed.

Get the photo and crop out two of the areas so they are just solid 'blue' or 'black'.

What colour are the squares you cropped out?

 

[WelshBloke]

My wife is an optometrist. she said blue and black is the proper color you should be seeing. People who see white and gold have something fucked up with the cones in their eyes

Nope.

 

[Eeqmcsq]

I'm comparing the same picture on the same site using 3 different computer monitors side by side and 3 different tablet screens.

To me, the white/blue part of the dress is sort of a pale light blue on all 6 screens. But they're different shades of pale blue. On one screen, the blue stand outs a little stronger. On another screen, the blue seems more faded towards white.

For the black/gold/tan part of the dress, on some screens, the tan color seems more faded, making the darker part stronger, and I COULD call it black. I know it's not PURE black, and it's not as black as that cow patch thing in to the left of the dress. But I could call it a shade of black. On other screens, the tan part stands out more, and I would definitely not call that part black. I don't know if I would call it "gold", but I would call it tan/light brownish.

So I think the screen settings is one variable that contributes to what colors the user thinks they see in the dress picture.

For the situations where different people are looking at the same screen or printed photograph, my guess is that the variability comes from the color/brightness/etc sensitivity of their eyes. For example, in my own eyes, one of them sees the wall in a brighter shade of white (and possibly slightly red tinted) than the other eye. Perhaps those who aren't as sensitive to blue might see the blue/white part of the dress as a shade of white, and call it white.

I guess this picture is just one of those freak pictures where the colors are at some borderline that could be interpreted as one shade of color or another.

 

[Stopsignhank]

I am one of those who can change from white/gold to blue/black and then back again.

The first time it happened was after I had to make a run at work. When I came back it changed from w/g to b/b. About an hour later it changed back to w/g. I took a walk outside and then again I saw the b/b. This also happened when I looked at the picture I printed out.

When I left work I took the picture. It was w/g, when I got in the lobby with lots of windows it changed to b/b. All the way home the picture looked b/b to me.

synopsis. Inside it is w/g, outside it is b/b for the same printed picture.

 

[Bob the Coder]

Blue and gold; confirmed with color sampling.

/thread

 

[FeuerFrei]

The question is: "what color is the dress?" not "what color do you see?"

Everyone instinctively knows this is a false color image due to either natural (bluish) lighting or massive bloom (gold) from the overexposed background washing out the whole image.
Once you know how to interpret the false color you can grasp what color the dress is IRL.

First impression is that this dress is hanging near a window - so the front with the pale bluish cast should most likely be white. The gold stripes look solid so the mind immediately interprets it as gold lace strips. However once you notice the muddy-gold bloom tainting the entire image, you start interpreting the false colors differently. The miscolored cow-print fabric hanging behind, clues you that the muddy-gold could be bastardized black and the pale blue could be darker IRL.

No one actually sees a black/blazing-blue combo and no one would guess that is the true colors thanks to the horrendous color issues.

Some of this may sound obvious, I'm just trying to put it all into words. Personally, I flip-flop in my interpretation

 

[IronWing]

What color is this dress???

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

 

[Arcadio]

Blue and gold; confirmed with color sampling.

/thread

I can't believe people still think this whole thing is about the actual color in the picture. It's all about what your brain perceives!

 

[shortylickens]

What color is this dress???

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

 

[disappoint]

Blue and gold; confirmed with color sampling.

/thread

This is the only correct answer, it's hilarious that so very few see that.

 

[Maximilian]

I've come to the conclusion that people seeing blue and black must be asian, because if I squint really hard I loose focus and then see the blue & black

Oh yeah! Except I see black & white if im squinting a lot.

 

[disappoint]

I can't believe people still think this whole thing is about the actual color in the picture. It's all about what your brain perceives!

That's what's hilarious about it, so very few perceive the colors correctly. You even have the black/blue people feeling like they were right all along because the dress is black/blue in real life when the picture didn't show that at all.

 

[DownTheSky]

I think the mindfuck has to do with the negative of the image being roughly the same as the image.

Also the colors in the picture are roughly white and "gold".

The gold is actually black because as you can see the black pvc window frames on right are the same color as the gold on the dress.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

This is the only correct answer, it's hilarious that so very few see that.

No, the question is "What color is this dress?", not "What colors are the pixels found within the image of this dress?". The question requires a higher level of critical and contextual thinking that goes beyond the average autistic hyper-literal ATOT member. Your interpretation makes as much sense as looking at a bad photo of a white guy, analyzing the pixels to determine those corresponding to his skin are closer to black than white, and saying "See, he's a black guy!" No, you are not correct. You are laughably wrong.

 

[ImpulsE69]

It's a bad picture, this much is true. The issue at hand is different people can look at that exact picture and have a completely different interpretation. For me, someone saying it is black and blue is absurd. Until about 10 hours later when it in fact DID show as black and blue to me.

I think some people took it at face value and don't realize we are not discussing the pixels themselves or even what color the dress is. We are discussing perception difference between people looking at the exact same thing.

EDIT: Maybe that's not exactly what this thread was about, but I came in late and by the time I was here it was about the perception, not the actual color.

 

[disappoint]

No, the question is "What color is this dress?", not "What colors are the pixels found within the image of this dress?". The question requires a higher level of critical and contextual thinking that goes beyond the average autistic hyper-literal ATOT member. Your interpretation makes as much sense as looking at a bad photo of a white guy, analyzing the pixels to determine those corresponding to his skin are closer to black than white, and saying "See, he's a black guy!" No, you are not correct. You are laughably wrong.

Actually you are laughably wrong, it's hilarious how you were able to convince yourself of that. You have a very poor memory and you hilariously can't see that. The discussion has changed from what it was originally when slow people like you finally came to the realization that it was a perception problem.

Go back and read all the posts from the beginning and you'll see everyone saying "I see gold/white" or "I see blue/black". No one mentioned anything about "I see these colors but I think it's really these instead. Nor "I perceive these colors even though the image shows different"

EVERYONE believed their flawed brains and vision were flawless and that anyone who didn't see it their way were insane, retarded or color blind.

By now they have all realized their mistake EXCEPT YOU. You still regard your perception so highly that you resort to calling people autistic if they have a different opinion than you do about something.

Do you need me to quote hundreds of posts for you from this thread and around the internet to back up my claim or will you sit down now?

We are only taking about perception NOW that everyone has been schooled, by me earlier in this thread which you'd like to forget all about. I was the first to post about perception. Go back and read it and weep.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Actually you are laughably wrong, it's hilarious how you were able to convince yourself of that. You have a very poor memory and you hilariously can't see that. The discussion has changed from what it was originally when slow people like you finally came to the realization that it was a perception problem.

Go back and read all the posts from the beginning and you'll see everyone saying "I see gold/white" or "I see blue/black". No one mentioned anything about "I see these colors but I think it's really these instead. Nor "I perceive these colors even though the image shows different"

EVERYONE believed their flawed brains and vision were flawless and that anyone who didn't see it their way were insane, retarded or color blind.

By now they have all realized their mistake EXCEPT YOU. You still regard your perception so highly that you resort to calling people autistic if they have a different opinion than you do about something.

Do you need me to quote hundreds of posts for you from this thread and around the internet to back up my claim or will you sit down now?

We are only taking about perception NOW that everyone has been schooled, by me earlier in this thread which you'd like to forget all about. I was the first to post about perception. Go back and read it and weep.

lol, what are you talking about? I agree that the image is misleading, but there is only one objectively true answer to the question "What color is this dress?". Everyone realizes there is a perception problem, just as there is a mathematical misunderstanding problem for everyone that thinks 0.999... does not equal 1. The point is that you perceived the color of the dress incorrectly and are now trying to justify your wrongness by somehow thinking EVERYONE was wrong just because you were, which doesn't even make sense. Anyone that thinks taking a paint dropper utility and applying it a black/"gold" region of the image is a sensible answer to the question posed in the thread's title is at a minimum autistic and incapable of understanding the significance of context.

 

[MongGrel]

NM.