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hviolets said:
I just posted about this dress in another thread! I see blue and black. I read in a few places that it's a psychological experiment that has to do with your emotions at the time. Apparently blue and black means there's an event that is affecting you negatively or stressing you out. I have no idea if that's true, but I am definitely stressed waiting on vet school acceptance :O
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Um I feel like I'd be seeing blue and black everywhere, then. Hello, reality of OOS tuition
 
The dress is flipping back and forth between colors for me and I'm flipping out
 
My mom is sitting next to me and I showed her the picture of the dress. I see white and gold, she sees a dark baby blue and dark brown..:shrug:
The picture actually makes my eyes hurt.
 
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My boyfriend says he sees blue/black but I see white/gold. He used the color dropper on Inkscape and it pulled up a whiteish hue and brown for the darker color. I'm betting that it's a trick of the mind where the hues are kinda ambiguous and your brain fills in the blank space. I do see a slight blueish hue to the white myself when I try.
 
It's definitely changing colors somehow. I saw about 3 posts on FB (which they were all gold and white, the opposite of what I saw first), and then when I scrolled back up, it changed back to blue and black.

What I think is clearly going on here:
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White and gold for me!

But I saw a picture of somebody actually wearing it and it was blue and black then, so my eyes are just crazy or something 😛.
 
Per my friend who's a graphic designer when asked about it "it's black and blue with a bad camera and bad lighting that turned it into an optical illusion"
 
I've seen both gold/white and blue/black. it literally changes every time I look at it. I also read somewhere that the original dress was gold/white but IDK what to believe anymore. Everyone in my house has been debating this for hours.
 
Haha! You guys, I believe this is the actual explanation. It makes sense at least to me because like I said, I keep my computer screen very dim and work in a dark room half the day.

"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.

So give that a shot, maybe.



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/white-and-gold-black-and-blue-dress-2015-2#ixzz3SuiN3IN3
 
Lupin21 said:
Haha! You guys, I believe this is the actual explanation. It makes sense at least to me because like I said, I keep my computer screen very dim and work in a dark room half the day.

"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.

So give that a shot, maybe.



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/white-and-gold-black-and-blue-dress-2015-2#ixzz3SuiN3IN3
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So if you only see white/gold regardless of the brightness or scrolling or blinking or whatever, you have ****ty cones....lol.
 
Lupin21 said:
Haha! You guys, I believe this is the actual explanation. It makes sense at least to me because like I said, I keep my computer screen very dim and work in a dark room half the day.

"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.

So give that a shot, maybe.



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/white-and-gold-black-and-blue-dress-2015-2#ixzz3SuiN3IN3
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With the brightness turned all the way up, I originally saw white/gold
I never changed the settings, and now I'm seeing blue/black

I need to stop because it's driving me crazy
 
WildZoo said:
That doesn't explain the color changing :lame:
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like you could achieve an effect like that with an optical illusion. Optical illusions can be all about where you're focusing (common ones include asking the subject to focus on a certain point and a still image then appears to be moving). I could be wrong, of course, but I think the bad camera angle is plausible.

I also haven't seen the change mentioned, so it's hard to comment on that myself.
 
Wired had this conclusion to say as well, making it seem like it also depends on what background is going on. http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/

So when context varies, so will people’s visual perception. “Most people will see the blue on the white background as blue,” Conway says. “But on the black background some might see it as white.” He even speculated, perhaps jokingly, that the white-gold prejudice favors the idea of seeing the dress under strong daylight. “I bet night owls are more likely to see it as blue-black,” Conway says.

At least we can all agree on one thing: The people who see the dress as white are utterly, completely wrong. :heckyeah:
 
I can see pretty well in dim light but this dress is white and gold no matter what I do. Looked at it with full brightness and brightness all the way down, looked at it on a different screen, took a pic with my phone, took my contacts out, squinted, crossed my eyes...nothing! (clearly avoiding studying)

My SO was looking at it at the same time and saw black and blue and when I showed it to him later it was white and gold. Then he looked away and looked back and it was black and blue. Still White & gold for me...
 
Stb1473 said:
I can see pretty well in dim light but this dress is white and gold no matter what I do. Looked at it with full brightness and brightness all the way down, looked at it on a different screen, took a pic with my phone, took my contacts out, squinted, crossed my eyes...nothing! (clearly avoiding studying)

My SO was looking at it at the same time and saw black and blue and when I showed it to him later it was white and gold. Then he looked away and looked back and it was black and blue. Still White & gold for me...
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Next you should print it the picture, cut out just the dress, and put it on a black background, and then on a white background, and see what happens 😉
 
Lupin21 said:
Haha! You guys, I believe this is the actual explanation. It makes sense at least to me because like I said, I keep my computer screen very dim and work in a dark room half the day.

"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.

So give that a shot, maybe.

Read more: THE DRESS IS BLUE AND BLACK
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I really like this explanation! Partially because it proves I'm right 😛,but also it's a good scientific explanation. I have noticed that people who see white and gold tend to have a hard time looking at the picture. Some say it makes their eyes hurt and many have a hard time determining a color at all. Where the blue and black people look at it and say, "It's blue and black" then look confused as to why it was even a question.
 
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I clearly see it gold and white/ivory... no matter what way I look at it... tried it with my friend and at first she saw white/gold and then saw it as blue/black... she also has a really difficult time seeing at night and I have no problem seeing at night. It probably has to do with eye colour too.. I have blue eyes and she has brown. Blue eyes are known to be more light sensitive. :O
 
Jilary said:
I really like this explanation! Partially because it proves I'm right 😛,but also it's a good scientific explanation. I have noticed that people who see white and gold tend to have a hard time looking at the picture. Some say it makes their eyes hurt and many have a hard time determining a color at all. Where the blue and black people look at it and say, "It's blue and black" then look confused as to why it was even a question.
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I think the explanation from Wired is better since it explains why the color might change if you look at it again
 
Get on SDN to get away from confusing dress......said dress is currently being discussed :poke:

That being said I saw white and gold, then blue and black/brown, and then stared at the damn picture for two minutes and finally saw white and gold again.

I agree.....it's witchcraft. And whoever posted this internet breaking dress needs to take it back!!! I can't handle this

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WildZoo said:
Those of you who always see white/gold...how about in this image? The picture is the same as the original but I'm wondering if adding the color keys will help 🙂
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The little squares on the side match up with the white/gold colours of the dress....:laugh: (the white has a blue tinge to it like it got washed with a new pair of jeans, but that's it)
 
Caia said:
The little squares on the side match up with the white/gold colours of the dress....:laugh: (the white has a blue tinge to it like it got washed with a new pair of jeans, but that's it)
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Well then!
Even if you like, cover the picture with your hand and just look at the colors?
 
Caia said:
Nope. I'm broken. Lol
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That is so odd! Your brain must still be interpreting the blue as illuminant light. But it's interesting that it still happens even when you don't have the colors of the background interfering. Color constancy is strange.
 
That one definitely shows up as blue and black for me even though I've seen all the rest as white and gold lol.
 
Caia said:
What colour do you see with this? This is the first colour code.
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Like a dark gold kind of color, which is how it shows up for me in the dress pic too. In the context of the whole image it looks like over-exposed black (which is what it is).
Oh! I remember someone saying that if you turned down the brightness and turned up the contrast on the image to counteract the overexposure, you would see what it is supposed to look like.
 
Jilary said:
Where the blue and black people look at it and say, "It's blue and black" then look confused as to why it was even a question.
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This is how I felt at first. Then I was loading a website on my phone and I only saw the top quarter of the photo (where the black/brown is the lightest) and I saw the white/gold for 2 seconds and it was gone, never to return. So weird. Black and blue camp for me.
 
It appeared "more" blue black on my phone and as I stared at it, I could see it slowly transition to white gold again.

I think my brain is refusing to believe that those two colours could possibly be on a dress that someone would buy.
 
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