Science Please Help: What colour is this dress?
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I'm seeing lilac and brown, which I guess falls under blue/black. I've tried my hardest, but I can't get it to shift over to white. Are people really seeing that? Seriously?
Poor monitor lighting, or brightness/contrast setting. I have one of my monitors turned down real low for easy reading and that get a blue/black shade on it, the one that is properly set however gets the right color.TopazFusion said:
None the less that overexposed background to the dress should be telling most people that the dress is underexposed and therefore appears magnitudes darker then it is, so I'm betting about half the people just claim the wrong thing to be cool on the interwebs.
Frezzato said:Heh, just for the record, the original image still looks white and gold to me. But it appears the screenshot you found has been altered. Note in my screenshot [http://i.imgur.com/8JS5ypO.png] (taken from the mobile version of Amazon.UK) that there is a square, visible behind the woman, bottom preview, second from the left. To the right is the image that you found. Seems the blue has been removed almost entirely from the image.Rednog said:Are you absolutely sure?TopazFusion said:
[img src=http://i.imgur.com/AYcpxbd.jpg]
The model is almost completely bleached out into nothingness :)
Again, the original photo looks white and gold to me, but I think in the end, all this really proves is the original photo was taken on a shitty camera/potato and the lighting was absolutely terrible![/quote]
Oh I'm fully aware it's a doctored photo, I just posted it to mess with people who were in the white/gold camp because that one does actually look white & gold. That was the intent of the person doctoring the photo.
OT: The dress looks lilac and brown to me, no matter what I try to look at it to make it change colour. That said, while I think that it's probably blue and black (even though my brain doesn't comprehend that), it would be so much nicer in white and gold. The blue black version is just meh.
Well, it's no rocket science exactly. ,)
Now, what did I win? ^^
Light Blue and Brown.Parasondox said:
White and Gold.Dirty Hipsters said:
Blue and Dark Brown.Dirty Hipsters said:
Blue and Black.Fappy said:
Now, what did I win? ^^
This is probably the fourth separate time I've seen the picture since yesterday, and I still definitely see off-blue and dark brown.
Aww, come on, Colour Scientist. This is your time to shine. This thread was made for you.Colour Scientist said:Now I can see the black and blue from looking at some other photos.
My brain hurts.
Wow, this is fun. When I first looked at the picture, it looked like white and brown/gold to me. But then I read Dirty Hipster's post about my eyes/brain auto-correcting what it perceives as a color-imbalance and now I cannot see it as anything but blue and black (though an ugly shade of light-blue and purplish black, but it's close enough).
This is like one of those magic eye pictures, where you cannot see the outlines of the hidden image hidden in the bigger picture, but once you do you cannot unsee it. I don't see why this caused such a huge stir, I though it was common knowledge that human perception is pretty fucked up like that...
This is like one of those magic eye pictures, where you cannot see the outlines of the hidden image hidden in the bigger picture, but once you do you cannot unsee it. I don't see why this caused such a huge stir, I though it was common knowledge that human perception is pretty fucked up like that...
Quoting because at the time I'm commenting there's still another page of this nonsense. This photograph IS the dress. The lighting was bad in the first photo. Some materials reflect light differently, especially IN bad lighting.TopazFusion said:Original uploader has uploaded another picture of the dress, and it is in fact, blue and black.
Mystery solved.
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Okay, let us get this straight so that we can get over this silly mess:
-The dress is blue and black under proper lighting conditions.
-The picture of the dress is light brown and pale blue because of the bad white- and color-balance, probably due to bad lighting conditions and a bad camera angle.
-What you actually see is both white/gold, blue/black and a ton of other combinations, and none of you is wrong. The colors that you actually see are dependent on a number of factors, be it the quality of your screen, the lighting conditions of the room in which you are viewing it or the way your brain decides to interpret the ambiguous colors. It is an optical illusion. There is no "right" or "wrong" way to see it.
Now that we are done with this, I think we can all agree it's time to put this one behind us and return to some more productive activities, like curing cancer or watching cat videos.
P.S.: Captcha: good grief
See, even the captcha is tired of this...
-The dress is blue and black under proper lighting conditions.
-The picture of the dress is light brown and pale blue because of the bad white- and color-balance, probably due to bad lighting conditions and a bad camera angle.
-What you actually see is both white/gold, blue/black and a ton of other combinations, and none of you is wrong. The colors that you actually see are dependent on a number of factors, be it the quality of your screen, the lighting conditions of the room in which you are viewing it or the way your brain decides to interpret the ambiguous colors. It is an optical illusion. There is no "right" or "wrong" way to see it.
Now that we are done with this, I think we can all agree it's time to put this one behind us and return to some more productive activities, like curing cancer or watching cat videos.
P.S.: Captcha: good grief
See, even the captcha is tired of this...
Yeah, every single time I looked at it it just looks white and gold (except for the 'real' pictures of the dress of course) even after seeing all the different shadings. At it's absolute darkest, it still just looks white and gold to me, just with a blue-ish tinge.