I can't do this again...
I know I'm wrong, but it's just staring at me gold & white. It's right there, clearly, and I don't know how to explain it to those who see it the other way.
I can't really See einher white and gold nor black and blue. It's more a baby blue and brownish to golden color for me. Can't really say it's black or white at all
I'm the same, looking straight at it all I can see is white and gold. Like a bright gold even, it's not even brown.
If I look at it in my peripheral vision it's very clearly blue and black though 🤷.
I just tried peripheral vision, and it's still solidly gold/white to me. Damn
I was able to see it blue and black one time, I'm not wasting my time trying to see it again, lol
how the fuck does this look like anything other than blue and black?!?!
Looks to me like a white and gold dress that's being shaded from the ambient light. In reality, it's a black and blue dress with a yellow light cast on it.
Your mind naturally tries to compensate for color shifts caused by light. For example, a white car still looks white to you at sunset and in the moonlight even though it is actually reflecting that red or blue light, not white light (i.e. all colors of light). That's because your eye recognizes the general pallete of the ambient light and makes an interpretation automatically about the colors of the objects you see.
That's happening in this picture too, either correctly interpreting it as black and blue in yellow light or incorrectly as white and gold in shade. But even knowing it's incorrect, changing your brain's interpretation is not easy.
My guess is that some people don't see the gestalt, they get stuck on the actual RGB color values, which float around light gray/blue, and a dark gold.
From what I read at the time, there's an intrinsic lighting judgement being made. It could be one dress being lit in natural light, or another lit under a florescent bar. They both would produce the same RGB values.
Interestingly nobody has been able to replicate the effect in another image. It's truly remarkable and one of the best things off of the internet.
I can't not see white and gold. The white just looks like it's in shadow.
since when are shadows blue
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20935843/
Also:
Shadow Color
In real life, shadows often appear to be a different color than the area around them. For example, outdoors on a sunny day, shadows can appear to be tinted blue. The shadows appear blue because the bright yellow light from the sun is blocked from the shadow area, leaving only indirect light and blue light from other parts of the sky.
So basically, if the light source has a yellow color to it (which many often do), the shadows can appear blue.
It's always been white and gold for me
Me too. Everyone else is fucked.
whoever get this confused has never fix the white balance of a picture's color temperature
Relevant recent news article...
Is it a crime story or a story about the dress? I can't really tell. Like I think it's about domestic violence, but then I read another paragraph and then all I can see is about the dress, and then it changes back again.
Literally looks like two different colored dresses. I know that's the real color, but I just cannot see it. Shrug.
Right? Thats always been my take.
The picture's exposure/brightness whatever has been so overadjusted that the black and blue looks white and gold.
You can tell me over and over that its "actually black and blue", and even show me the real dress beside it, but I cannot for the life of me shift my view on the original picture and somehow view the dress as black and blue.
I see blue and gold. Am I having a stroke?
Nope. It depends on how your brain determines the lighting of the photo.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fblq7g958qt061.gif
The colour picker continues to tell me that it is a light shade of blue, near white, and a medium shade of brown, similar to gold.
Not this shit again!
White and gold
I am no longer able to see the white and gold glory :(
Same here. When this was new I had 10 tabs open with articles about this dress, they were all white and gold. Then all of a sudden on the 11th tab I saw it as blue and black and thought it was a different picture. Went back through the other 10 tabs and they were all blue and black now.
I was able to see white and gold once more a few days later, but it was short lived and I haven't been able to see anything else but blue and black for years now.
It's clearly a white and gold dress under a somewhat blue light (probably sunlight through clouds or maybe a "daylight" bulb).
If you see differently, I strongly recommend a colour blindness test, it could change your life for the better! <3
Actually, it's funny you say that since I am colorblind and have always seen it as black and blue. More to the point, the dress is actually black and blue.
It's funny that you say this with such strong conviction, because the dress was in fact black and blue, and due to the way the brain perceives color, it can be interpreted as white and gold. It has nothing to do with color blindness.
Logically I realize the "white" is bluish-gray, especially if I stretch it out to the edges of my phone so I'm not influenced by the backlighting in the photo. But I held it up next to my black cat and the "black" isn't even close. At most it's brown, which is what gold looks like in shadow. Compare it to your background if you're on night mode, or your text if not. No black there.
It is important to remind the audience that the author of this picture heavily abused his girlfriend/wife
Craziest part is that it was used in a famous campaign for domestic abuse several years before the husband in the wedding got arrested for domestic abuse.
I see black and blue with a yellow over wash because of lighting.
To see white and gold in shadow, I have to remove all context prompts, like strip out the background and all lighting artifacts.
I just can't see the white and gold in context. Too many years of colour correcting photos.
I always see lavender and gold, dunno if I should worry or not.
Somehow this feels older than rage comics.
No. Blue and Gold.
So about an hour ago I was showing this to my wife, we both saw white and gold and thought this is silly. But now somehow I am seeing blue and black and she is still seeing white and gold. Fuck me.
I see the defendant guilty of attempted murder and considering the severity of the crime I hereby sentence the defendant to 15 years in prison.
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