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Colour optical illusion
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this post was submitted on 31 May 2026
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The dress was revealed to be, in fact, blue and black.
Oh man, MAJOR missed opportunity there! They sold out of the blue and black ones like overnight, they should have fast-tracked a white and gold version production to hit the shelves ASAP and enjoyed the flood of purchases.
Anyone with eyes and half a brain would know from the original photo 10 years ago it was black and blue. You can see the severity of the contrast in the photo that would suggest the colour was manipulated.
I still cannot believe this many years later there are still people so absolutely disillusioned that they see "White and Yellow".
Get your eyes checked, people.
Yes that's kind of part of the link I gave.
But if you take a color picker, you can clearly see the RGB values from the image to match white and gold.
I did the color picker thing too, and its result was blue and orange. Not super helpful to this particular global controversy, but was worth a shot.
IMO the color of the actual physical dress is kinda moot: photographed (poorly), digitized, and presented to the world on billions of screens with completely different settings for things like color saturation, and the color of the thing that hits our eyes is not necessarily indicative of the color of the original.
The color of the dress in the photo was not the same as the color of the photographed dress.
It was white and gold! sprints away
It was a whole thing in my lab when it went viral, and I wasn't on any social media at the time, so someone brought up the picture and asked me what colors I saw, and I said "blue and goldenrod, why?" I still see a light blue and a goldenrod, almost orange ib the fucked-up viral picture.
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