What colors do you see in this dress?

[MockingVol]

First time I looked it was white and gold and I didn't understand why this was such a big deal. Now I'm looking at it again and it's obviously blue and black!

Halp I'm dying from some high grade Tom foolery :cray:

 

[Nerd-Vol]

It's an ugly dress.

 

[BenGrimm]

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[Notorious B.E.N]

Mike and Mike were talking about this this morning, they said Herm Edwards was going nuts with this thing yesterday.

 

[Notorious B.E.N]

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[TrueOrange]

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White and gold rangers?

 

[TrueOrange]

Here was an explanation given:

"Your eyes have retinas, the things that let you interpret color. There's rods, round things, and cones that stick out, which is what gives your eye a textured appearance in the colored part. The "cones" see color. The "rods" see shade, like black, white and grey. Cones only work when enough light passes through. So while I see the fabric as white, someone else may see it as blue because my cones aren't responding to the dim lighting. My rods see it as a shade (white).

There's three cones: small, medium and large. They are blue sensitive, green sensitive, and red sensitive.

As for the black bit (which I see as gold), it's called additive mixing. Blue, green and red are the main colors for additive mixing. This is where it gets really tricky. Subtractive mixing, such as with paint, means the more colors you add the murkier it gets until its black. ADDITIVE mixing, when you add the three colors the eyes see best, red, green and blue, (not to be confused with primary colors red, blue and yellow) it makes pure white.

—Blue and Black: In conclusion, your retina's cones are more high functioning, and this results in your eyes doing subtractive mixing.

—White and Gold: our eyes don't work well in dim light so our retinas rods see white, and this makes them less light sensitive, causing additive mixing, (that of green and red), to make gold."

And this user says he turned his phone's brightness from low to high and saw the colors switching.

 

[TrueOrange]

Relax people.

I'm not sure that's right either.


Granted, "scam" wouldn't be the proper term for this either.

 

[vader]

Yes!! It's white and gold again!

Same for me

 

[hndog609]

SIAP, some interesting stuff.

https://www.yahoo.com/health/is-this-dress-blue-and-black-or-white-and-gold-112194158507.html

Personally I see a very pale blue (or blue-ish white) and gold/brown.

 

[wcm100690]

I'm not sure that's right either.


Granted, "scam" wouldn't be the proper term for this either.

There are many explanations floating around about this out there. Reality, no one knows but for the record I saw gold/white and blue/black.

 

[BenGrimm]

Here was an explanation given:

That would only make sense if you were seeing it in real life. Although it does somewhat explain the photoshop sampling since cameras, particularly phone cameras, are terrible in low light.

Doesn't explain how it changes for people.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

I see a blue and a dark gold.

 

[GAVol]

Relax people.

Makes sense. I'm left handed and therefore supposedly right brained.

 

[#JuanVol]

Last night and then again this morning it was white/gold... but somehow just now all I see is blue/black. I'm not sure if its the lighting or my work computer but its blue/black.

 

[Panthro]

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[govols/cc]

Does contrast help? I still see the same. Faded black turned brownish and blue.

Now it's white and gold on a green background.

 

[whocaresgobobcats]

I see a black and blue dress that's been either washed too many times or just faded over time to look brown/gold and a light blue. The lighting makes it seem like the blue part is white when it's just really faded making it look that way.

It's not an optical illusion, it is what it is. Photoshop confirms the black area is in the brown spectrum, the white area is in the blue spectrum.

It's absolutely an optical illusion, that's why people see two different color schemes. It all depends on what their brain interprets the color as because of the shadows and lighting.

 

[whocaresgobobcats]

Makes sense. I'm left handed and therefore supposedly right brained.

Except that doesn't explain the many people that have seen it both ways. It has nothing to do with left and right brained or whatever.

Seriously, it's all shadows and lightening and how your brain interprets it. Like I said, colors don't really exist, so it's up to your eyes and brain to figure it out and it can be fooled.

 

[Peytons forehead]

I see orange and white

 

[PKT_VOL]

Gold and white. Not a hint of black or blue.

 

[malinoisvol]

I see orange and white

The only colors that matter. And these colors EXIST!!!

 

[Zetter]

I see blue and bronze. No black, no white and no gold.

 

[joevol33]

Still white and gold.

 

[jjay2518]

Except that doesn't explain the many people that have seen it both ways. It has nothing to do with left and right brained or whatever.

Seriously, it's all shadows and lightening and how your brain interprets it. Like I said, colors don't really exist, so it's up to your eyes and brain to figure it out and it can be fooled.

This. It seems pretty straightforward to me. The actual photo has all the colors that people are seeing in it. Different visual systems will interpret the dress different ways. Is an interesting way to show how people's visual perception is unique.