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  • gloomy@mander.xyzG [email protected]

    I don't understand this, can you explain it?

    In the left I see a black and blue dress with a yellow box. The dress inside the box is still black and blue (with yellow tint).

    In the right side I see a white and gold dress with a blue. box. Inside the box the dress is white and gold, with a blue tint.

    What am i supposed to see here? What is this telling me?

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    The dress inside the [left] box is still black and blue (with yellow tint). Inside the [right] box the dress is white and gold, with a blue tint.

    The black and yellow colors inside the boxes are actually the exact same color, and the same goes for the blue and white colors inside the boxes (which is what the seamless bars connecting them is there to demonstrate). But they look completely different, right? The picture is showing us two different ways the exact same colors can be interpreted differently depending on the context surrounding it.

    If you go to my profile and look at my comment before this one, I posted two slightly edited versions of the image that better show how they're the exact same color.

    The way this connects to the original image of the dress, is that some people see a gold and white dress because they think the dress is in blue-tinted lighting, as though they were standing in shade. People who see an overexposed image with a bright yellow tint, on the other hand, will likely see a blue and black dress. I couldn't tell you why it happens, but it's the way our brains perceive the lighting that's doing it.

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      Debate vs discussion semantics.

      Debate regards the color.

      Discussion regards the overall cultural effect, studies in neuroscience, etc

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      If you're going to move the goal posts you usally need a segue to be coherent- what?

      But yes your arguments lack understanding in those areas too.

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        Because shade works in 3D and it's not clear how far away the background is from this picture. But yes, 'dress shaped and size amounts of shade' exist; trees, could be on a shaded balcony, etc.

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        Maybe I'm just an elevated being but I can clearly tell that the righthand side is a mirror on a wall and that the tan below it is where the floor meets the wall. Because of that, I can roughly make out the angle and know that we should be seeing some shade on the side if any existed in the first place.

        Does that make sense?

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          I stuck my foot in my mouth about this dress. It was about a year later, and I didn't realize it had been proven to be black and blue, and I said something snarky when someone I liked said it was black and blue. I was so sure it was gold and white, I made an ass of myself.

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            On my phone the background of Lemmy (not the photo) is black. And what is clearly gold in the photos doesn't look anything like black.

            I know the dress is blue and black and that's what pisses me off. I can't even see blue and black if I try.

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            I recall seeing pictures of the dress in other light that make it obvious, and when you compare them next to each other i can see what's going on, but yeah by default my eyes 100% see white/gold here.

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              If you're going to move the goal posts you usally need a segue to be coherent- what?

              But yes your arguments lack understanding in those areas too.

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              Which goalpost did I move?

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                Speak for yourself. I'm a solvem probler.

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                clearly some problems need to be taken from behind

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                  If you're going to move the goal posts you usally need a segue to be coherent- what?

                  But yes your arguments lack understanding in those areas too.

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                  My arguments haven't even touched on those areas 😭 can you stop being annoying? I'm not gonna fall for your troll bait, so if you keep being annoying, I'll just block you lmao.

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                    Everythings black

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                      #330

                      Here's a pretty good Slate article on this dress, and how important this image became:

                      https://slate.com/technology/2017/04/heres-why-people-saw-the-dress-differently.html

                      When I look at the image attached to this post, I can't see anything but white and gold, as I always have. This, in spite of now knowing it's black and blue.

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                        Maybe I'm just an elevated being but I can clearly tell that the righthand side is a mirror on a wall and that the tan below it is where the floor meets the wall. Because of that, I can roughly make out the angle and know that we should be seeing some shade on the side if any existed in the first place.

                        Does that make sense?

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                        No because it's your subconscious, otherwise you'd have no problem understanding why it's was ambigious. (Same applies for elevated beings - they can grasp differences in human colour perception).

                        And either way, even if your assumptions were true you still don't know the angle of the sun, potential coverings, etc. You can't predict the shade without that info so the logical choice would be to use the colours the pixels display.

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                        • rpl6475@lemmy.mlR [email protected]

                          Blue and gold to me

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                          I’ve never seen even a hint of gold in this image. It’s always been blue and black to me

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                            My arguments haven't even touched on those areas 😭 can you stop being annoying? I'm not gonna fall for your troll bait, so if you keep being annoying, I'll just block you lmao.

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                            I know, hence - lacking in understanding.

                            You fell for my troll bait 40msgs ago

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                              I know, hence - lacking in understanding.

                              You fell for my troll bait 40msgs ago

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                              for sure bro, you're really trolling me 😎

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                                No because it's your subconscious, otherwise you'd have no problem understanding why it's was ambigious. (Same applies for elevated beings - they can grasp differences in human colour perception).

                                And either way, even if your assumptions were true you still don't know the angle of the sun, potential coverings, etc. You can't predict the shade without that info so the logical choice would be to use the colours the pixels display.

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                                The potential coverings would have to be exactly the shape of the dress because of the sleeves, no? We would see the shade passing underneath? Like onto the obvious clothing rack underneath the left sleeve?

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                                  On my phone the background of Lemmy (not the photo) is black. And what is clearly gold in the photos doesn't look anything like black.

                                  I know the dress is blue and black and that's what pisses me off. I can't even see blue and black if I try.

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                                  I don't get it. It's clearly white and gold. How can anyone see black and blue?

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                                    The potential coverings would have to be exactly the shape of the dress because of the sleeves, no? We would see the shade passing underneath? Like onto the obvious clothing rack underneath the left sleeve?

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                                    No because you can't see the floor underneath.

                                    Looks like a fence with holes in it to the left, can see the sun through the holes in the distance.

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                                      It sounds like you're agreeing with me that color perception relies on context, not just the color code of the pixel on the screen.

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                                      Right. Since we have no context, the dress is white and gold objectively. Assuming context of the color of the light is incorrect, we don't have it. The dress is actually black and purple but the image is doctored to be white and gold. So it's white and gold. The image is not the object. We're talking about the image, not the object.

                                      Zooming up on the checker, it's objectively gray. Zooming out, it's objectively white. The only correct interpretation is the shadow darkens the image. But in the dress picture, we don't know what the color of the light is, so it's not comparable.

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                                        It's funny how people will keep barking about it even when you slap them in the face with color picker which is mathematical display of the color. There is no "how brain is seeing things". It's literally WHAT THE COLOR IS. To call white with faint blue tint "blue" and what is clearly a "gold" shade can't possibly be black. If photo was heavily manipulated through photo editing or lighting, that doesn't prove anything at all. Or the question was stupid. No one was really asking "what color is the dress", they were asking what colors are on the photo. And photo has no relation to the real dress because of light conditions manipulation or even photo editing.

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                                        #339

                                        This is the color picker in the image you replied to. Do you really think the colors on the left are white and the colors on the right are gold?

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                                          No because you can't see the floor underneath.

                                          Looks like a fence with holes in it to the left, can see the sun through the holes in the distance.

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                                          Interesting.

                                          Anyway, skill diff! See ya!

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