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Oh yeah, the gold and white dress. I remember some people were acting crazy saying it is blue and white.
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Even if you zoom in really far? Thats what I cant wrap my head around. The colour is so far from black I cant see how anyone would interpret it as black.
Definitely. Part of how it works for me, is I see the lighting around the space, and how white/bright looks, and how it's VERY different from the dress.
So then my brain picks up on how light in the image works, and then makes a profile that the camera is shitty in a shitty environment, and how to interpret color and context.
Only after that does my brain decipher what's in the picture, being The Dress
I would argue that if somebody de-blurred the picture, and cut out the dress apart from the background, and just had the dress........
Hmmm... Nah, because... even then, I can see how the seams are basically black or far darker blue (like in the shading), and not actual white or gold.
Yeah I just don't get how white and gold is seen.
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everyone's wrong, gold and baby blue
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Oh yeah, the gold and white dress. I remember some people were acting crazy saying it is blue and white.
jokes aside the actual dress was blue and black
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So people looking at this photograph actually can perceive this to be white and gold? thats utterly wild. And hard to believe.
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What on earth are you talking about.
Only the 'darker' picture looks remotely blue and black
Just curious. If you look at the dress at the bottom, and let your peripherals see the dresses up top slowly, then look up to the dresses on top, do you see them in blue/black then? Happened for me, then even when I scrolled up to the other pictures they stayed blue/black for a while.
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Just curious. If you look at the dress at the bottom, and let your peripherals see the dresses up top slowly, then look up to the dresses on top, do you see them in blue/black then? Happened for me, then even when I scrolled up to the other pictures they stayed blue/black for a while.
Does not help me to see it the other way.
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Ok is this post some sort of trick? I opened up lemmy, saw it white and gold for the first time in my life, then I took a shower, now it is blue and black once more.
wrote last edited by [email protected]For some reason, in the thumbnail, it's much easier to convince my brain that it's a white and gold dress in shadow. When I expand the image, it's pretty much impossible for me to see it as anything other than blue & black.
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So people looking at this photograph actually can perceive this to be white and gold? thats utterly wild. And hard to believe.
I've been trying for the past minute and cannot see anything other than white and gold
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So people looking at this photograph actually can perceive this to be white and gold? thats utterly wild. And hard to believe.
Right? Everyone has had eyes I guess.
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The front of it presumably is. But the back, that we're looking at, seems to be in shade.
Light bounces around. That's the whole point of ray tracing. Even if the dress were not in direct light, the light bouncing around the environment would prevent the kind of shade necessary for that.
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So people looking at this photograph actually can perceive this to be white and gold? thats utterly wild. And hard to believe.
You want wild? I see it white and gold in the PC, and blue and black(ish) on the phone.
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If they were asking about actual color of the dress that you cannot see, what the fuck is the point? That's like saying, we put orange cat in fully closed box. What color is the cat? And you then claim it's not orange, it's black because there is no light inside the fully closed box so the cat is actually black. That's the level of stupid argument with this stupid ass dress.
I can also shoot a white dress to look entirely blue because I'm gonna use cool white light at 9000 fucking Kelvins and fuck up the cameras white balance to make shit look anything but its actual color. I can also take a normal photo and then just drag some sliders in photo editor and fuck up colors and then ask some bullshit question about colors and then go like "well, achtually it's not that color".
It's also funny when people argue it's not actually white because color picker says it's light blue. Firstly, color motherfucking temperature. Secondly, open color wheel and see where it's positioned. It's in the white segment mildly nudging towards blue. The part where I'm not gonna argue is perception of gradients. This isn't "this gold color is actually black bullshit", but actual science where people perceive correct colors differently. For someone a certain gradient of red is perceived as lighter or darker compared to someone else. But certainly isn't perceived as green. Or black. Or whatever other basic color.
It's also funny when people argue it's not actually white because color picker says it's light blue. Firstly, color motherfucking temperature.
It's because it seems like about half of people's eyes and brains correct it one way and the other half the other way, leading to extremely heated discussions about "how can you not see it my way." This isn't like other optical illusions like that silhouette of a spinning ballerina where you can easily flip it around in your mind. I've only ever seen this as white and gold once and it took someone putting it upside down and very slowly zooming out from a very specific area of the dress.
So that's why people were so torn about it.
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I found this image to be a really good way to distill the issue down into the two different modes or perception:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress#/media/File:Wikipe-tan_wearing_The_Dress_reduced.svg
wrote last edited by [email protected]I initially saw black and blue, but after scrolling to the top of this thread yesterday I could only see white and gold and again today, even zooming in.
Immediately switched to black and blue after reading that.
The mind is a fascinating thing.
Edit: Holy crap I'm back to white and gold.
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So people looking at this photograph actually can perceive this to be white and gold? thats utterly wild. And hard to believe.
Back when this went viral, I only saw white and gold. Then one moment it just sorta morphed into blue and black. Now I can't turn it back to white and gold for the love of me.
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The blue of the dress is pretty obvious
It really isn't to me. Even knowing the true colour I still cannot see the blue in this picture, it's perfectly white for me. Guess my brain is wired wrong.
️Edit: happy cake day!
I legit saw this picture as white and gold until I went to an article that someone linked and they had a transitioning gif with the saturation / hue shifting it.
It’s now black and blue for me and I’m gonna go cry in the shower as my understanding of everything has just changed in real time.
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everyone's wrong, gold and baby blue
This... Thank god i m not crazy
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That's the thing, that background can also look like a harsh sunlight, which would typically give you a blue tint. Your brain has to guess which is right.
But it's not tinted blue. It's extremely vivid.
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This concludes your long term memory exam. Please see the lady at the front desk to schedule your short term exam.
Where was the lady supposed to be again?
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So people looking at this photograph actually can perceive this to be white and gold? thats utterly wild. And hard to believe.
It had a lot to do with low quality displays at the time and not necessarily people seeing it incorrectly.
