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  • ace_garp@lemmy.worldA [email protected]

    The dress is a bistable picture, similar to the Spinning Dancer, which you can consciously reverse the direction of spin with some practice.

    To see the dress as blue-black, I first look at the black dress in the bottom-left corner, then shift gaze to the main dress when colour is established.

    To see the dress as white-gold, I first look at the sunny regions on the right, then move gaze across, when the main dress goes to white-gold.

    • It may help to cover or mask the opposite region, when focusing on one side.

    • For detail, 10 years ago I saw this as white-gold and did not change from that perception. Did not know what all the fuss was about this dress.
      Today, I saw it as white-gold initially, but 10 minutes later, after two friends saw it as blue-black, I also saw it as blue-black and could not shake it.

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    Your comment caused me to scroll back up to try to force the white and gold (love the spinning dancer) but as soon as I got there the dress was already white and gold despite the black and blue I had initially seen.

    Wild.

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      This is flicking between white and gold and black and blue each time I scroll past it.

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      • hubi@feddit.orgH [email protected]

        Not even the brighter version looks white and gold to me. It's so obviously blue and black, y'all are insane.

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        I understand doubting the white but seeing black in that gold was what I could never buy. To me it seemed like light blue-grey with matte gold.

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        • A [email protected]

          Because no one has posted the other photos:

          And this is a photo of the same dress taken under proper lighting:

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          #79

          No way, really ? I really thought it was always white and gold. This cannot be the same dress, I do not trust my eyes anymore

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          • Z [email protected]

            I'm still convinced this is the biggest troll. It's clearly white and gold

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            I've always really liked this explanation image you can find on Wikipedia page for it. Essentially, people who see white and gold are mistaking the lighting to be cold and blue-tinted, rather than warm and yellow-tinted.

            The portions inside the boxes are the exact same colors, you can easily check this with a color picker.

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            • M [email protected]

              I can literally switch between perceptions with this exact image. It’s sort of like that ā€œare there six cubes or tenā€ illusion. Depending on how I look at it, I can see either one.

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              Exactly. Or that silhouette of a spinning ballerina. I can switch the direction that she is spinning at will as well. There's nothing to go by because it's a perfectly flat, projected silhouette without any shadows, so anybody is free to interpret the rotation however they like. 😁

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              • hubi@feddit.orgH [email protected]

                Not even the brighter version looks white and gold to me. It's so obviously blue and black, y'all are insane.

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                #82

                When i first opened the image, it was undeniably white/gold to me, and I could not trick myself into seeing black/blue. After looking at the HQ image above, now I can not see white/gold anymore.

                Edit: After writing this comment, it is back to white/gold.

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                • hubi@feddit.orgH [email protected]

                  Not even the brighter version looks white and gold to me. It's so obviously blue and black, y'all are insane.

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                  Let's do this again!

                  Seriously WTF??? It's freakin white.and.gold.

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                  • hubi@feddit.orgH [email protected]

                    Not even the brighter version looks white and gold to me. It's so obviously blue and black, y'all are insane.

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                    I’m with you. This viral moment never made sense to me cuz I can never see anything else even with my wildest imagination.

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                    • blujay320@lemmy.blahaj.zoneB [email protected]

                      Ok this one is crazy, because I hear whatever I’m consciously thinking of. ā€œBrainstormā€, ā€œgreen needleā€, ā€œbrain needleā€, ā€œgreen stormā€. It’s actually tripping me out.

                      Btw I still hear ā€œlaurelā€ every time. I can hear ā€œyannyā€ in the background if I really focus, but I always hear ā€œlaurelā€ as well.

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                      Craziest one that's worked on me seeing both. Only hear yanny, no concept of laurel

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                      • ace_garp@lemmy.worldA [email protected]

                        The dress is a bistable picture, similar to the Spinning Dancer, which you can consciously reverse the direction of spin with some practice.

                        To see the dress as blue-black, I first look at the black dress in the bottom-left corner, then shift gaze to the main dress when colour is established.

                        To see the dress as white-gold, I first look at the sunny regions on the right, then move gaze across, when the main dress goes to white-gold.

                        • It may help to cover or mask the opposite region, when focusing on one side.

                        • For detail, 10 years ago I saw this as white-gold and did not change from that perception. Did not know what all the fuss was about this dress.
                          Today, I saw it as white-gold initially, but 10 minutes later, after two friends saw it as blue-black, I also saw it as blue-black and could not shake it.

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                        Yeah it sas white and gold initially, then i consciously thought of it as blue and black, and now i cannot go back to white and gold even with your instructions...

                        It definitely seems to be a conscious focus on contrast that defines its colors

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                          I could understand gold, but where the hell do you see white on this picture?

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                          White clothes under shade looks blueish

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                          • darkdarkhouse@lemmy.sdf.orgD [email protected]

                            No, two people can be looking at the same screen and perceive it differently.

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                            Yes I know, I'm not denying that

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                              I still don’t see either. It looks blue and gold to me

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                              THANK YOU

                              This is the first time I've seen this take upvoted.

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                              • nelots@lemmy.zipN [email protected]

                                I've always really liked this explanation image you can find on Wikipedia page for it. Essentially, people who see white and gold are mistaking the lighting to be cold and blue-tinted, rather than warm and yellow-tinted.

                                The portions inside the boxes are the exact same colors, you can easily check this with a color picker.

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                                Yeah, this is the best explanation for why this 'controvesy' happened.

                                Certain background lighting conditions and colors can significantly alter the color and luminance of certain objects in that lighting environment, which otherwise, in less extreme lighting environments, look different.

                                Even just understanding basic color theory can show you how to make a color pallette out of either mutually complimentary colors, or highly contrasting colors... and how humans largely, (though apparently to differing extents and by different means), interpret a total color space by comparing and contrasting the colors within that space to each other, as opposed to against some objective reference point of all possible colors.

                                The other part of this explanation is that...

                                People were not talking about the same image.

                                Someone would argue one way, another person argues another way, and then someone else would do some kind of photoshop job to argue for one side, and their explanation and reasoning and justification would get lost, and ok now you have multiple images spreading around and being argued over by the same population that would...

                                ... in 5 years, essentially start a civil war over the idea of whether or not it makes sense to wear a mask during an epidemic of a virus transmitted in the aerosolized spittle from sneezes, coughs, and even just breathing.

                                But yeah, when this was an ongoing thing, I'd have multiple different people in different camps... sending me actually different images, and it took a while to figure out which one was the actual original origin image.

                                Which of course I had to do on my own, but critical thinking and basic research skills, an impulse to verify the base assumptions of a claim or argument... many people do not know how to do this, or only selectively do it with things that challenge their pre-existing notions.

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                                  10 years? No way

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                                  • zagorath@aussie.zoneZ [email protected]

                                    am I part of the joke here??? It's clearly blue and black...

                                    The objective fact is…it is a blue and black dress. Other photos of the same dress show that.

                                    But I cannot, for the life of me, see how anyone can possibly get that from this photo. Sample the RGB values all you want and it clearly is not black in this photo. The exposure and white balance have messed around with it so much it is incomprehensible to me how anyone can see it as blue and black.

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                                    I dunno. It’s clearly a blue and black dress in a washed-out photo.

                                    I guess I’m just used to seeing washed-out photos, and mentally adjusting the ā€œwhitepoint/exposureā€ (I’m not a photographer) in my brain or whatever.

                                    I have washed out Polaroids from my childhood, so. I don’t think there’s any great mystery here.

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                                      Yeah, this is the best explanation for why this 'controvesy' happened.

                                      Certain background lighting conditions and colors can significantly alter the color and luminance of certain objects in that lighting environment, which otherwise, in less extreme lighting environments, look different.

                                      Even just understanding basic color theory can show you how to make a color pallette out of either mutually complimentary colors, or highly contrasting colors... and how humans largely, (though apparently to differing extents and by different means), interpret a total color space by comparing and contrasting the colors within that space to each other, as opposed to against some objective reference point of all possible colors.

                                      The other part of this explanation is that...

                                      People were not talking about the same image.

                                      Someone would argue one way, another person argues another way, and then someone else would do some kind of photoshop job to argue for one side, and their explanation and reasoning and justification would get lost, and ok now you have multiple images spreading around and being argued over by the same population that would...

                                      ... in 5 years, essentially start a civil war over the idea of whether or not it makes sense to wear a mask during an epidemic of a virus transmitted in the aerosolized spittle from sneezes, coughs, and even just breathing.

                                      But yeah, when this was an ongoing thing, I'd have multiple different people in different camps... sending me actually different images, and it took a while to figure out which one was the actual original origin image.

                                      Which of course I had to do on my own, but critical thinking and basic research skills, an impulse to verify the base assumptions of a claim or argument... many people do not know how to do this, or only selectively do it with things that challenge their pre-existing notions.

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                                      Yeah that would never happen a war. Imagine of 3 groups of people worshipped the same God, just prayed to him on the floor, to a wall, and to the ceiling.- I'm sure they would get along and be super harmonious.

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                                        It kills me that no matter what, it is always white and gold for me, EVEN THOUGH REALITY SAYS OTHERWISE!

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                                          ARE YOU FR? WHO REMEMBERES THIS? IS THIS A SARCASTIC POST??? SAY SIKE OP

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