[quote]mbdix wrote:
If people are really seeing white and gold and it’s not some big joke, then it is caused by the eye and not the brain.[/quote]
Nah, it’s something to do with the poor lighting in the picture and the brain can’t really figure out what it’s seeing. There’s a write up about it somewhere.[/quote]
It’s poor lighting, but that does not explain it. I had my wife show me the colors she sees on a color pallet thingy and on the color pallet thingy, I see the same blues, blacks, golds and whites that she sees. But the colors she sees I don’t see at all. If it was a lightish blue I could maybe see why, but she sees it as a deep royal blue and I see white. It’s pretty fucked up.
[quote]mbdix wrote:
If people are really seeing white and gold and it’s not some big joke, then it is caused by the eye and not the brain.[/quote]
I see white and gold. I’ve looked at it every which way, it’s white and gold.
I have a theory though. Everybody in my family sees it blue and black and they have blue eyes. I have brown eyes and I see it white and brownish/ gold.
I am curious if eye color has anything to do with it. Do dark eyes see it white and gold and light colored eyes see it blue and black.
So let experiment, what color do you see it and what color are your eyes? It may be nothing, but I am wondering if eye color may have anything to do with it. Nevertheless, it’s the damnedist thing I’ve ever seen.[/quote]
Missus and I both have blue eyes. She sees white and gold, I see blue and black.
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[quote]mbdix wrote:
If people are really seeing white and gold and it’s not some big joke, then it is caused by the eye and not the brain.[/quote]
I see white and gold. I’ve looked at it every which way, it’s white and gold.
I have a theory though. Everybody in my family sees it blue and black and they have blue eyes. I have brown eyes and I see it white and brownish/ gold.
I am curious if eye color has anything to do with it. Do dark eyes see it white and gold and light colored eyes see it blue and black.
So let experiment, what color do you see it and what color are your eyes? It may be nothing, but I am wondering if eye color may have anything to do with it. Nevertheless, it’s the damnedist thing I’ve ever seen.[/quote]
Missus and I both have blue eyes. She sees white and gold, I see blue and black.
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I’m sure EyeDentist could explain it, if there is anything to explain. I’m in the Black and Blue camp. Also, very color blind. I only see blue and grayscale for the most part, though. Occasionally, I can make out red or yellow… or orange… I own lots of pink shirts.
Looking at it closely I don’t see how it could be white. There is obviously a tint of blue in the image and nothing outside the dress is blue so its not the lighting making it blue.
Assuming the lighter area is blue, adding more blue to the entire image to compensate for the lighting makes the gold turn black based on its rgb values.
[quote]mbdix wrote:
If people are really seeing white and gold and it’s not some big joke, then it is caused by the eye and not the brain.[/quote]
I see white and gold. I’ve looked at it every which way, it’s white and gold.
I have a theory though. Everybody in my family sees it blue and black and they have blue eyes. I have brown eyes and I see it white and brownish/ gold.
I am curious if eye color has anything to do with it. Do dark eyes see it white and gold and light colored eyes see it blue and black.
So let experiment, what color do you see it and what color are your eyes? It may be nothing, but I am wondering if eye color may have anything to do with it. Nevertheless, it’s the damnedist thing I’ve ever seen.[/quote]
Missus and I both have blue eyes. She sees white and gold, I see blue and black.
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Well maybe it’s not eye color. hmmmm.[/quote]
I got it. It’s a metaphor for U.S. politics.
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[quote]sufiandy wrote:
Looking at it closely I don’t see how it could be white. There is obviously a tint of blue in the image and nothing outside the dress is blue so its not the lighting making it blue.
Assuming the lighter area is blue, adding more blue to the entire image to compensate for the lighting makes the gold turn black based on its rgb values.[/quote]
Yeah it’s dim. I see no blue whatsoever. Not a shade, not a maybe I don’t see how it can have any blue in it at all.
Yeah, I am sure adding a blue filter will make it look blue, after all it’s white. If we add a red filter it will look red. That’s not the solution.
This photo is of a blue and black dress. The original photo is of a white and gold dress.
Do those that see the first photo as blue/black see a difference between the first photo and this one?
Edit: There are two explanations for this. One, those that see black/blue ate too many paint chips as children. Two, someone has pulled off a great viral prank.
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
This photo is of a blue and black dress. The original photo is of a white and gold dress.
Do those that see the first photo as blue/black see a difference between the first photo and this one?
Edit: There are two explanations for this. One, those that see black/blue ate too many paint chips as children. Two, someone has pulled off a great viral prank.
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The difference I see in this one is that the original seems to be a bit more washed out in color.
Like I said I looked at this page originally on my phone and saw blue/black when I went to reply on my laptop I saw it as white/gold, so I don’t think it is a hoax.
This only proves that if humans cannot even agree whether a given colour is black or gold, or whether another is white or blue, there is no hope that the species will ever agree on anything.
Not sure why it’s different but the image is quite overexposed for those seeing gold and light blue/white. Perhaps the rest of you are subconsciously doing some corrections as if you were staring into the sun.
That’s my theory. If you took it and pumped the brightness way up, would the blue and black camp see the gold?
[quote]sufiandy wrote:
Looking at it closely I don’t see how it could be white. There is obviously a tint of blue in the image and nothing outside the dress is blue so its not the lighting making it blue.
Assuming the lighter area is blue, adding more blue to the entire image to compensate for the lighting makes the gold turn black based on its rgb values.[/quote]
Yeah it’s dim. I see no blue whatsoever. Not a shade, not a maybe I don’t see how it can have any blue in it at all.
Yeah, I am sure adding a blue filter will make it look blue, after all it’s white. If we add a red filter it will look red. That’s not the solution.[/quote]
I didn’t say adding blue filter, I meant subtracting light which is a combination of all colors, you’ll get a more blue image by doing that. It might just be your monitor settings. You can also try zooming in so much you see nothing but the blue area, the color is more obvious when everything else is out of frame.
By extracting random pixels on the dress and entering the RGB value on this site it gives you the color name and the hue. Doing this I get nothing but blue themed colors even by picking the lightest (near white) ones I can find.
