Dress Color: Black/Blue or White/Gold

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[quote]pat wrote:

[quote]sufiandy wrote:

[quote]pat wrote:

[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.

http://www.color-blindness.com/color-name-hue/[/quote]

Well, what I mean is altering the photo is not going to explain the phenomena. I HAVE zoomed in on that lacy part. It’s brownish gold, zoomed in, zoomed out, period.
I cannot see any blue what so ever and I have not been diagnosed with color blindness. I had it checked not long ago either.[/quote]

I was talking about the white vs blue, zoom in on that and just ignore the gold for now. My explanation for black vs gold depends on first agreeing the other part of the dress is blue.

The part you were zooming in is supposed to be black so of course you won’t see any blue there.

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Now it’s white again.

I quit.

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[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
The fact that this is linked on the front page of the NY Times kinda makes me understand domestic terrorism…

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Yep.

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White and gold this a.m., blue and black now.

If I find out that this is some kind of elaborate conspiracy, I’m going to rethink my position on 9/11 trutherism.

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[quote]twojarslave wrote:
I saw blue/black. For the record, my eyes are brown, my index finger is about 0.5" shorter than my ring finger and I squat low bar.[/quote]

1 out of 3 is nothing to brag about. This just puts 1 more stipulation on my dream team candidates.

  1. Men must have longer ring fingers than index fingers.
  2. You must see this picture as blue and black. (Either sex)

Possibly to be continued.

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[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
The fact that this is linked on the front page of the NY Times kinda makes me understand domestic terrorism…

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None of those look white and gold to me. They all have blue and black tint to them

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[quote]smh_23 wrote:
White and gold this a.m., blue and black now.

If I find out that this is some kind of elaborate conspiracy, I’m going to rethink my position on 9/11 trutherism.[/quote]

Pretty sure this is an elaborate scheme by ISIS to sow discord in the West. Turning friends and loved ones against each other.

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[quote]BeefEater wrote:

[quote]smh_23 wrote:
White and gold this a.m., blue and black now.

If I find out that this is some kind of elaborate conspiracy, I’m going to rethink my position on 9/11 trutherism.[/quote]

Pretty sure this is an elaborate scheme by ISIS to sow discord in the West. Turning friends and loved ones against each other.[/quote]

Ha! I think a lot of these “viral” social media things are at least studied by any government interested in using social media to sway and control public opinion to their favor…or at least that’s what I’d do.

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[quote]TheKraken wrote:

[quote]BeefEater wrote:

[quote]smh_23 wrote:
White and gold this a.m., blue and black now.

If I find out that this is some kind of elaborate conspiracy, I’m going to rethink my position on 9/11 trutherism.[/quote]

Pretty sure this is an elaborate scheme by ISIS to sow discord in the West. Turning friends and loved ones against each other.[/quote]

Ha! I think a lot of these “viral” social media things are at least studied by any government interested in using social media to sway and control public opinion to their favor…or at least that’s what I’d do. [/quote]

I can see it now: Rand Paul declares that he is certain the dress was white/gold. Vows to correct history books and gains widespread bipartisan support.

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So what colour shoes would you wear with this?

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http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/the-official-color-of-the-dress-is/vi-BBi2mqQ?ocid=U142DHP

Nail in the coffin.

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Holy shit this is strange. This morning the dress was white and gold and the blue/ black thing seemed like crazy talk. This afternoon I looked at the picture again and the dress is clearly blue and black and I can’t see the white and gold color no matter how I look at it. It literally seems to me that someone changed the image.

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[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]pat wrote:

[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
I wonder what people would see if all the background were removed the first time they saw the pic?

Are the blue/black people picking up contextual clues from the blown-out background and correcting for that?[/quote]

I’d like to see the real dress in person.[/quote]

The actual dress doesn’t exist In our physical universe.

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Who’s physical universe does it exist in?

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[quote]sufiandy wrote:

[quote]pat wrote:

[quote]sufiandy wrote:

[quote]pat wrote:

[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.

http://www.color-blindness.com/color-name-hue/[/quote]

Well, what I mean is altering the photo is not going to explain the phenomena. I HAVE zoomed in on that lacy part. It’s brownish gold, zoomed in, zoomed out, period.
I cannot see any blue what so ever and I have not been diagnosed with color blindness. I had it checked not long ago either.[/quote]

I was talking about the white vs blue, zoom in on that and just ignore the gold for now. My explanation for black vs gold depends on first agreeing the other part of the dress is blue.

The part you were zooming in is supposed to be black so of course you won’t see any blue there.[/quote]

I zoom in on the white part and it’s still white. I turn the laptop sideways, at an angle, every which way, the white part is still white. I can’t make it turn blue unless I paint it blue.

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[quote]Diddy Ryder wrote:
So what colour shoes would you wear with this?[/quote]

Black, it goes with everything.

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[quote]mbdix wrote:

[quote]twojarslave wrote:
I saw blue/black. For the record, my eyes are brown, my index finger is about 0.5" shorter than my ring finger and I squat low bar.[/quote]

1 out of 3 is nothing to brag about. This just puts 1 more stipulation on my dream team candidates.

  1. Men must have longer ring fingers than index fingers.
  2. You must see this picture as blue and black. (Either sex)

Possibly to be continued.[/quote]

Well I guess we can rule out eye color as a culprit.

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I predict this dress will be what every woman will be wearing this spring.

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:slight_smile:

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[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
:-)[/quote]

Wrong kind of kitty for this crowd Em.

Nobody really cares about the dress. It’s what’s under it that counts.

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[quote]Broncoandy wrote:

[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
:-)[/quote]

Wrong kind of kitty for this crowd Em.

Nobody really cares about the dress. It’s what’s under it that counts.[/quote]

Broncoandy, it’s a joke. The cat is white, right? But they’re calling it black. See?