What colour is this dress? The question sweeping the world

[James Bond's body double]

dont care pointless thread

Is it because you bought it thinking it was blue & black, and when you tried it on it was actually white & gold?

 

[beorhthelm]

so what we have here is a deliberately manipulated image using a light/exposure trick that highlights that some peoples perception of light is different. i'll try photoshop picker myself later, but from the sample on the Indy page, its showing as light blue and gold to black shades of brown, hardly a conclusion to the silliness.

 

[pasty]

On the subject of colours, how many chaps on here find this to be true....



Many a conversation chez pasty goes something like...

Mrs P: Can you bring me my cerise cardigan down from the wardrobe please
Me: Uuuuummmmmmm
Mrs P: The pink one
Me: Ah, ok.

 

[brakespear]

White-and-gold-ists - if you start at the bottom of page 1 of this thread and then scroll slowly upwards to the original picture of the dress, does it briefly look blue/black to you before returning to white/gold?

That's happening to me now.

yes, strange.

 

[chucky1973]

its white and gold...anyone who says different is on a wind up!

 

[carteater]

I don't see why someone seeing it as a different colour annoys people, it's neither, it's actually light blue and golden brown, it's eye science as to how the light is processed in people's eyes so they say.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

I don't see why someone seeing it as a different colour annoys people, it's neither, it's actually light blue and golden brown, it's eye science as to how the light is processed in people's eyes so they say.

But the actual dress is Black and Blue - https://twitter.com/romanoriginaIs/status/571181456501944321/photo/1

I still see the image on the opening post as White and Gold though.

 

[OvingdeanSeagull]

When I first saw it, it was 100% white and gold. I then checked the same picture a couple of hours later and there was no way it was anything but blue and black. I was convinced I was looking at a different picture, but apparently not. Now it's white and gold again. Does anyone have any idea why/how this is happening??

 

[Superphil]

No idea, I'm colourblind.

 

[Superphil]

On the subject of colours, how many chaps on here find this to be true....

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Many a conversation chez pasty goes something like...

Mrs P: Can you bring me my cerise cardigan down from the wardrobe please
Me: Uuuuummmmmmm
Mrs P: The pink one
Me: Ah, ok.

Try it when you're colourblind

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[chucky1973]

the poll is not right!! in our office 10 of us have looked, 8 see blue and black and 2 white and gold (me being one of them)

 

[OvingdeanSeagull]

the poll is not right!! in our office 10 of us have looked, 8 see blue and black and 2 white and gold (me being one of them)

Agreed, almost everyone I've spoken to about it has instantly said blue and black. I'm glad that the people of NSC are seeing some sense though.

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

/closethread

Lots of dodgy eyed people on this forum.

 

[Munkfish]

has the first imagie changed?

I saw white and gold earlier, the ****er is now a pale blue and black.

 

[Gullflyinghigh]

This morning it was blue and brown, then I saw it as white and gold, now it's back to blue.

Seriously starting to doubt whether anything is as I believe it to be.

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

This morning it was white and gold, now its blue and black. What the...

 

[Munkfish]

This morning it was white and gold, now its blue and black. What the...

same as me. Now i cant see it white and gold no matter how much i want to.

 

[GingerBeerMan]

Hi! me and some other grad students have been discussing this for the last half hour. It's likely due to some kind of colour constancy illusion, where some people are perceiving the context to be something like "lit by blueish daylight" and others are perceiving it to be something like "under yellow department store lights." In the former case, your brain will try and get the objective (if such a thing can be said) colour by subtracting out the blue as a shadow, and in the latter case it will do the same thing for the filigree by subtracting out the yellow as a reflection. This is a common illusion in psych : See here (http://www.echalk.co.uk/amusements/OpticalIllusions/colourPerception/colourPerception.html). but it's not seen that often 'in the wild,' even though your brain does this constantly.

From another website

 

[Titanic]

I suggest you adjust the contrast and brightness on your monitors!

 

[Bold Seagull]