Is this dress black and blue or white and gold?
Are there other examples of this phenomenon?
>>8917022
kek
oh hey it's that meme that was a thing for one day and hten everyone immediately forgot about, cool
>>8917022
You just know the people who made these had a fragile ego and couln't handle being "tricked"
>>8917022
the fucking extra leg always gets me
courtesy of /g/
>>8917052
Does this artist draw porn?
>>8917022
This is one of my favorite images ever
>>8917059
They always do.
>>8917006
Here
>>8917006
I never found out what that was about. Was it some sort of mass troll?
>>8917149
but that's blue and gold o_0
>>8917162
it's just a picture someone posted to tumblr and people started arguing about what color it is, with like 95% of people agreeing it's black and blue but some other people saw white and gold for some reason
>>8917162
Yes, someone made a picture where the dress was white and gold and a picture where the dress was black and blue.
Release each on different platforms, and watch people argue over literally nothing.
>>8917149
>(((NBC)))
well i guess who know who's behind it now.....
>>8917205
Not true. If you show a certain amount of people the picture OP posted, you will eventually reach someone who say the color is white and gold. Try it. That's what was so surprising about it when it was popular.
>>8917293
those people are probably just trolling
>>8917006
>>8917298
They're not. Ask you grandma or other people who most likely have never seen this dress. I remember when this took the world and I asked my grand-aunts and super sheltered co-workers. Many of them said white and gold. There are many youtube videos explaining the phenomena.
>>8917217
Isn't it /pol/ that whines about injecting politics into everything
>>8917300
what the fuck it works
>>8917300
Why does my brain still try to trick me into thinking these are different colors when I know that they are the same? Is my brain fucking stupid?
>>8917318
>>8917338
same as this optical illusion where colors in different lighting or surrounding colors seem to have a different hue when they really dont.
Also the light in the original image actually does wash out the blue and black to appear lighter then they are in normal lighting.
>>8917338
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_adaptation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_constancy
>>8917344
i mean you can make out that the white on the right is a little blue and the black on the left is a little yellow. but they still look different
>>8917353
My man!
>>8917344
That gif is mind blowing.
>>8917293
It's white and gold for me
>>8917052
It's odd -- even looking t that, I can't see the blue/black in OP's image.
>>8917191
Subtle I like you.
>>8917006
Oh shit I can see it both ways now.
If I simply look at it, I see white and gold like I always saw but if I look at the black dress behind it (in the lower left) I see that the black parts are the same color as what I considered to be gold and I see the "white" slowly becoming blue.
That said the one in this thread is too pale for me, I see it way more easily on this one.
>>8917006
What dress? All I see is an image.
>>8917300
>rl oldfag
>visit this board for the first time
>stumble upon this post immediately
>brain has melted into shit and I'm never coming back
>>8917191
but it's grey and brown
>>8917006
I still can't fathom what sort of mental defect you have to suffer from to see white and gold in that image.
>>8917052
except the background and ambient lighting in OP's image isn't dark but bright as fuck
>>8919040
yeah that's why the dress looks blue and black when it's really white and gold
>>8919067
The dress is literally blue and black though.
I can only see the black if I cross my eyes and intentionally give myself shit vision
Do people who see black just have shitty genetics?
Nothing here is about what color the dress is -- it's about what color the badly-exposed JPG image makes it appear to be.
Ant statement starting with "the dress is..." is making a mistake.
>>8917032
nice projection
>>8917006
>Is this dress black and blue or white and gold?
No idea, but I got some matching shoes to go with it.
>>8917006
It is literally blue and black. The differences are due to the way the lighting is in the photo, and the lighting in the viewer's environment.
>Note some images were edited
The original is really blue.
Essentially, your brain expects yellow light to come from the top of your view (the sun) and blue light to been seen in shadows. You may notice the yellow light in the top half of the image and blue in the bottom.
If you think you're looking at a dress in a shadow, it appears blue and black. If you think it's in sunlight, it appears white and gold. Or perhaps vice versa.
Regardless, the dress is blue.
>>8919249
>still see this piece of shit as gold and white unless I squint my eyes
What's wrong with you though?
>>8917022
seriously can't stop laughing at the annoying extra leg
>>8917006
Usually with these illusions once I know the actual color I can see it but this stupid dress is still white and gold to me.
Why do people struggle to much with this shit?
maybe we should really make art mandatory in collage.
pic related, one of the first things you learn when you want to draw shit.
>>8921511
the quality turned out shit, so heres the actual pic.
>>8919652
That means you're retarded, anon. Yeah sorry.
>>8921553
the highlights appear green to me. But this picture that went around recently is a much better example. There is no predominantly red color here.
Why don't we just see the actual colors that things are. Why does the brain feel the need to adjust shit
>>8921591
>the actual colors that things are
>>8921578
>There is no predominantly red color here
There is, it just needs leveling.
>>8921707
Forgot pic
>>8921591
That's what are brain is trying to do when it adjusts color.
Lets say you're in direct sunlight and looking at a fruit. You see that it is yellow.
Later, you see that same fruit under a thick canopy of tree leaves, so all the light is filtered through the leaves, giving the light a green tint. Now the fruit technically is green, because of that green tint to everything, but your brain corrects for this and allows you to see its "true" color as yellow, so you can identify it as the same fruit. Later, in a dark moonlit night, everything is very dark. You see the fruit and it looks nearly black, because it's so dark. Your brain corrects for this by seeing it as yellow again.
In these situations, entirely different amounts and wavelengths of light are hitting your eye, but your brain correctly identifies it as the same colored object
always remember that photographs are not natural and your brain is not designed to deal with photographs, so it's not really a "mistake" if your brain can't correctly identify photos taken out of context. If you were actually there and saw the dress yourself with your own eyes and not from a photo, I think you would have no problem at all telling what color it is.
>>8921511
Art is pretty mandatory if you're making a collage
>>8917022
I just checked in paint, the first picture is actually true
>>8917006
Right now its white and gold but I've seen it change from Black and blue to white and gold which was weird and neat.
>>8921976
yeah. you can check it easily by holding a finger between the tiles A and B. Without the surrounding tiles and shadow you can easily see that it's the same color. Should have used this.
>>8917052
What is this meant to show?
>>8917338
The capacity of the human brain for processing visual information easily outstrips the most sophicated, purpose-built optical hardware and software known to science. It just is that, like nearly all aspects of biology, it's thoroughly optimized for naturalistic inputs. Which allows synthetic inputs to fool it.
>>8917032
Congrats. You found a way to feel superior to someone who makes jokes on the internet. Hope that was fulfilling
>>8921891
That actually be horribly inconvenient. Lighting conditions change by the second and pretty much everything in the world that is colorcoded would be useless to you. A bright red stopsign would more often appear purple or blue to you and the green light on a traffic light would look cyan through the blue tint of your car windshield.
You dream of "only seeing true color" would effectively make you completely colorblind for all practical purposes. It would be horrible
it baffle me how some would think this is gold?
have they never seen pure gold? the blue part might be just a confusion of colors but for the gold part you'd have to imagine all the brilliance and reflectivity, the textile is dull and lacks shine and small lightspots.
>>8917149
still blue and black
>>8922652
It's a dull gold like this for me, and that pic is the color my Photoshop sees in the clearer parts of what is considered black on the dress and that I see as gold.
It's not baffling if your brain gets rid of the blue tint instead of the red tint because it assume the light source is different.
Terrible meme.
>this normie meme again
how in the world did anyone see that as white and gold
the background is yellow, there is your reference
does that look like a lighter color than yellow? no? then how can it be white
this was the stupidest thing
>>8921514
I don't see any green
I only see black and blue in the dress too
I thought it was just a retarded hoax which got out of hand
>>8921687
I opened it in paint and used the colour picker on the strawberries
If you zoom in on the strawberries the colour picker appears red but if you then take it out to the side the colour appears grey
>>8917309
Isn't it autists that whine about injecting jokes into everything?
>>8917300
>>8917006
I don't understand how people see blue and black at all.
It is clearly white and gold.
>>8923814
It's more interesting when you consider that this can be directly perceived in those two different tones. I don't think the question is what color the dress really is.
>>8917006
>Is this dress black and blue or white and gold?
I was one of the tiny percentage of people who saw the dress as it actually was in the picture: blue and gold.
Also, OP's pic is altered. See the middle top of my pic for the actual original.
>>8922652
>it baffle me how some would think this is gold?
Yeah, it was really never a true "gold". It was more of a brownish gold. I don't think there's a popular word for that color, so a lot of people just said "gold" because it had kind of a metallic sheen, and "gold" was the closest metallic color they could think of.
I've been saying it from the beginning you can easily shift your own perception of the dress by shifting how you perceive its environment. However, I've come to believe that is easier for some people than for others. It's like the spinning dancer that your brain can see spinning one way or another, most people can switch directions at will, but others have difficulty. I don't think it's a matter of intelligence, because my friend Jeremy is one of the smartest guys I know and I spend my career interacting with very smart people.
Sorry, I didn't complete that thought, but if it wasn't obvious, Jeremy insisted that it went one way and didn't believe us that we could make it shift directions.
>>8924809
The reflection fucks this one up
>>8924791
that's grey and brown
>>8921648
If you want to get philosophical about it, you can't actually see somethings true color; You can only see how your brain interprets it.
There are colors humans can't even perceive, so other animals see the world differently than humans see it.
>>8917059
Never fucking change niggers. I love this place
>>8924804
beige, café, lightbrown...
>>8917006
Yes, there are more examples of people being stupid
>>8917300
Holy fuck. what is this
>>8919588
>ambient lighting can make black look anything other than black
kys
>>8924791
So the joke is that people browsing on shittty TVs see it as blue and black.
>>8922510
That you're literally retarded
>>8925476
Even seeing blue seems like a stretch. That is clearly white.
>>8924791
But by being "overexposed", it shows it as white and gold, that clearly means the dress is white and gold. It's obvious that the original photo is somewhat in shadow and that it's just white.
>>8918964
at first i saw white and yellow/golden, now i cant, wish i could see this dress as white/gold someday again.
Found thos pictures in thread where some anon was threatening that he will connect 2 pieces of flat lego together.
So what is the collor of those lego pieces?
I will post answer after minute
>>8925733
They are grey. But they seem to be red. Showed it to my friend and he said grey at the start. I think that's because it's kinda clear that the right up corner of the left's piece is grey if you look closely.
>>8925738
Left up corner* sorry i'm fucking stupid
>>8917353
Blue and Yellow are some of the color pairs you cannot see and blend in the same eye nerves. So lets go and flip the colors rapidly in the same spot for fun.
>>8925733
Looks like red ones, but they are black right?
>>8921523
Mental deficiencies being the pc term of course