Blows my mind! I saw black first…then blue. Wow.
I was one of those gold & white people.
I see blue and gold.
It’s cobalt and navy.
I always saw blue and black, no idea how anyone could see it as white and gold unless they were colorblind tbh
It’s the lighting.
the original photo was much more faded than the one posted here, so people’s colour perception depended on how yellow/blue they perceived the photo’s light to be tinted, and how bright/dark their screens were.
I’ve always been able to see both colors of the dress by changing the size of the image, so the phenomenon “made sense” to me, but I legitimately have no idea how that image is supposed to explain it lol. There’s two different colored dresses with seemingly random parts highlighted with different colored boxes… are they supposed to look the same in the highlighted area or something?
The connected boxes show that the same color appears on both sides; however, the colored boxes provide context based on the lighting which is further reenforced by the rest of the dress outside the box.
Technology Connections did a video about brown that has the same color of orange on a background that cycles between white and black and the color of orange seems to shift to brown or orange depending on the background.
Crazy, its almost as if color perception is individual and dependent on lighting and surroundings. Obviously only your perception of reality is the “real” one.
Blue and gold maybe, but white and gold doesn’t even make sense to me. For a white dress to look blue it needs to be under blue light, which would cause the gold highlights to be dark with a blue sheen. The missing blue sheen indicates that either it’s gold under natural lighting or black under yellowish lighting.
I am not colourblind afaik and I could not for the life of me see it as blue and black. The lighting just made no sense for that to be the case.
It looks like the dress is in a less lit part with a very strong backlight.
thats because the OG** photo** (left) it is gold lace on a “white dress” (with a blue tint lighting effect etc) while IRL the dress is black & blue. right side is the edited OP photo. the difference is ‘night and day’ and if these all look the same i’ve got some news for you. …
I know I wa stalking about the OG photo. Though to be honest even the edited one does not look completely blue and black to me. I know the dress is blue and black in reality.
I’m mildly colorblind and it’s just too dark for me to make out. It could be white, blue, etc. But the black part doesn’t look solid enough to be black either. I just think the camera failed to properly get a read at that lighting level .
That is what I am seeing now too, same as the first time I saw this.
However, when it got posted to Lemmy ~7months ago I could switch it between colours.
I posted then, about how to do it. Something like defocussing your eyes, and then looking at the sunny part on the right-side, to switch to white&gold.
I like the people arguing with the wiki here. That fully explains what it is and why you might see it as different.
Its just grey, never understood that fight it’s just grey and light grey.
Nobody knows you’re a dog on the internet
Yeah we do, it’s just polite not to mention it.
Both is good :)
What in the hell, this is the first time I’ve been able to actually see it as blue and black
If you look at the orginal on wikipedia the image is much brighter:
I remember, that I was able to understand people, who saw it as white and gold, but now I can’t. I just see black and blue. I don’t even know which parts are supposed to be gold.
Wait… It was actually white and gold the whole time? I never saw it as white and gold
No?
The dress was confirmed as a royal blue “Lace Bodycon Dress” from the retailer Roman Originals. The dress is black and blue; although it was available in three other colours (red, pink, and ivory, each with black lace), a white and gold version was not available at the time.
the photo yes but not the dress itself, take the og photo from the wiki into any photoshop with a color picker, and look at the points it marks it on the color range (it shows it between yellow and red nowhere near any blue) its gold stripes in the photo. the “white dress” parts do show up with light blue tint, it all just because of the terrible back light overexposed effect. the real dress yes is blue and black, but the photo is gold stripes with light-blueish white dress.
I wouldn’t call this “nowhere near blue”:
the ‘black’ parts are gold in the photo yes they are in fact “nowhere near blue” the part you zoomed in on is the blue/white parts that have a blue tint.
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Did you pick that colour from the part that’s black IRL? Of course that won’t be blue.
Edit: Here’s the original picture with max saturation. It clearly shows the blue parts as blue:
It is edited. The background is much more dimmed.
