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What color do you see this dress?

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What color do you see this dress?
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RE: What color do you see this dress?
February 27, 2015 at 10:11 pm (This post was last modified: February 27, 2015 at 10:12 pm by pocaracas.)
I think this has to do with how the light is in the background and in the foreground.
The background is very bright.
The foreground looks like it's putting a yellowish hue on the black stripes of the dress.
Our brain is expecting lower light in the foreground so it interprets the blue as something lighter... White with blue hues.

But if your brain assumes homogeneous lighting in that room, then it darkens the color going through the eyes, and we get dark blue.

There's a TED talk on that:


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RE: What color do you see this dress?
February 27, 2015 at 10:27 pm
(February 27, 2015 at 10:11 pm)pocaracas Wrote: I think this has to do with how the light is in the background and in the foreground.
The background is very bright.
The foreground looks like it's putting a yellowish hue on the black stripes of the dress.
Our brain is expecting lower light in the foreground so it interprets the blue as something lighter... White with blue hues.

But if your brain assumes homogeneous lighting in that room, then it darkens the color going through the eyes, and we get dark blue.

There's a TED talk on that:



What black stripes? Dodgy

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RE: What color do you see this dress?
February 28, 2015 at 1:32 am


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RE: What color do you see this dress?
February 28, 2015 at 3:22 am
I saw white/brown the first time, minutes later I went back and saw the blue/blachish brown.

CD says white/gold only.
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RE: What color do you see this dress?
February 28, 2015 at 4:13 pm
I see white and gold but the creator of the dress says it's actually royal blue and black. Interesting!
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RE: What color do you see this dress?
February 28, 2015 at 5:50 pm
According to photochop

[Image: gold.png]

[Image: blue.png]
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RE: What color do you see this dress?
February 28, 2015 at 9:18 pm
Different dress, same phenomenon:

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RE: What color do you see this dress?
February 28, 2015 at 11:23 pm
(February 28, 2015 at 9:18 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Different dress, same phenomenon:

[Image: tumblr_nkg4ivOalA1qgzxcao1_r2_400.gif]

If you tell me that isn't white and gold, I'm quitting the internet.
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RE: What color do you see this dress?
February 28, 2015 at 11:25 pm
(February 28, 2015 at 11:23 pm)Losty Wrote:
(February 28, 2015 at 9:18 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Different dress, same phenomenon:

[Image: tumblr_nkg4ivOalA1qgzxcao1_r2_400.gif]

If you tell me that isn't white and gold, I'm quitting the internet.

It is white and gold, but as it's pulled back from the camera it looks blue and black to many of us. I just thought it was a better illustration because you can "see" the illusion happen.
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RE: What color do you see this dress?
February 28, 2015 at 11:28 pm
(February 28, 2015 at 11:25 pm)Jenny A Wrote:
(February 28, 2015 at 11:23 pm)Losty Wrote: If you tell me that isn't white and gold, I'm quitting the internet.

It is white and gold, but as it's pulled back from the camera it looks blue and black to many of us. I just thought it was a better illustration because you can "see" the illusion happen.

I don't see it. And for the first picture...I have a hard time not thinking it's a lie that the dress is blue and black. There's a small voice in the back of my mind saying everyone who says they see black and blue is actually just trolling me
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