There is a debate raging across the interwebs right now, a debate that is turning brother against brother, father against son. Look at this picture...
Do you see a White and Gold dress
or
a Black and Blue dress?
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Black and Blue. I started having this argument with a couple of my friends a little before I saw this. This argument might bring TKP to its knees...
It's black & blue. I mean I see white & gold but my eyesight is terrible. There's some big explanation about rods & cones & brightness and whatnot, but it all boils down to yeah, it's really blue & black.
Edit:this
Not sure if I believe the explanation.
I have 20-15 vision, feel like my eyes are more sensitive to light, and saw white and gold. Myth, BUSTED.
This explanation (Wired.com) is less personal. It basically says that we're humans, trying to compensate for changes in sunlight throughout the day (so we can find the right berries and not get eaten), but that dress isn't in sunlight, so we're overcompensating and stripping out the wrong colors. (except for me, I saw blue and black)
http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/
Similar explanation, with a few related examples:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27048-the-dress-is-white-and-gold-...
Amazing what the human brain does when presented with colors.
Weirdest thing ever... I followed the link and went to the site you posted. On the site, there is a picture of the dress. I saw it as white and gold, as I had every other previous time. There is a link on that site to another photo of the dress on the website selling it. In that photo it is clearly blue and black.
I hit the back button, and NOW I SEE THE ORIGINAL DRESS AS BLUE AND BLACK. Can't see white and gold anymore. WTF.
White and gold, wouldn't even know it was a debate if it wasn't in the title.
Edit: gf showed me the picture again, now very much blue and black. Now examining all previous assumptions about life.
Definitely Black and Blue, I think...
Is blue with gold an option?
I hope so cause that's what I see
I also have such bad eyesight that my optometrist told me even if I had Lasik I would still need corrective lenses. Yay +7.50 contact prescription...
So I am not the only one. phew.
I get no kick from champagnnnnnne
Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at alllll
So tell me why should it be true (oo oo oooooo)
Looks orange and maroon to me. Also looks like it won't fit a full-sized male horse, disappointing.
Or husband and wife. We were looking at the exact same picture at the same time from about the same angle/elevation and she saw white, I saw blue.
-Until I looked at the full picture on the other computer and scrolled down until it was gone and then back up, it flashed white when it first appeared, as if scrolling swapped the picture. It seems if I look at the shoulder area alone, it's like a poorly lit white & gold, but when I reveal the entire dress, there is no hint of white or gold, just a purplish color (I'm told periwinkle) fading into almost a Duke blue & black.
To add on to the rods and cones thing, the explanation I read was that as humans, our eyes/brain try to strip away the affects of sunlight as it changes throughout the day (so we don't get eaten). Due to various factors, some peoples' eyes are stripping out the blues instead of the whites.
Isn't the real question if if would look good on a llama?
I'm ready for the off season to be over.
#TeamLlama
Oh, and
#BeefyBerman
These llamas? Llama chase in Arizona
No, these llamas
More perceived color combinations than fans at the UVA spring game.
The simple visual way to compare the difference:
almost posted this, glad I scrolled down. Great minds...read xkcd
also, anyone else think he drew this chick with a neck beard?
From the explain xkcd wiki for that comic:
Yeah, look it that. THEIR heads look different colors.
This is the most valuable interpretation of this I've seen yet.
it's amazing how fast this got around the world. i woke up and saw this and thought: "who cares?" (no offense to OP just wasn't interested in it) Then later the same day 3 Chinese friends send it to me via social media. they put some personality typology spin on it here though, not just about eye sensitvity
I hate this dress!
This clearly has nothing to do with a picture, but everything to do with computers starting to think for themselves. It's only a matter of time before the computers rise up and start fighting back. It started with the male enhancement (I mean how did they know our one true weakness?), next with color changing pictures, and soon...who knows? I wouldn't be surprised if they started a human cataloging system and find a way for us to build and update it ourselves. To the point where you log-in and post everything you can about yourself, where you are going each day, and list who would make great hostages in order to bend you to your knees. This is only the beginning.
My dell would not let me submit this comment originally. I had to hook up my old apple computer and sign onto dial-up aol in order to send this message to you. God help us all.
You do know this is a VT board, right? You wolfpack fans must have a lot of time on your hands.
Anyway, I have that interview with Umbrella Corporation to get ready for. Don't have time for subversive thoughts right now.
I realized I just spent 3 minutes on this thread that could've been devoted to looking at how Gaines might fit into the 2-deep battle at DE this year. I'm so ashamed.
You're ashamed?
All this dress stuff got me to google "Denise Milani in a dress".
And I will not disclose the time spent.
Blue and black. I was confounded when my roommate said white and gold. Argument p
Lasted for a solid 15 minutes
Saw this blowing up yesterday and just said to myself "yep... East coast must have been snowed in yesterday"...
You don't think it's even mildly interesting that half of the population can look at a picture and see something completely different than the other half?
God I miss football.
I'm amazed there's a portion of the population that can look at LOLUVa and see something worth cheering for. This dress is just a mildly interesting footnote when there are global mysteries like that.
Interesting. I'm interpreting this as LOLUVA looking at this dress as their next uniform selection.
I agree that it is pretty crazy. When I first looked at the picture I saw white and gold, but when I scrolled away from the picture and then scrolled back it was black and blue...I thought I had lost it..lol.
yeah I guess my eyes suck..I thought they were pretty decent but I definitely see white and gold and I can't even force myself to see black and blue
It has less to do with your eyes than with your brain. Everyone's eyes are receiving the same visual stimuli. The difference is how is your brain wired to process color, lighting, shadow, etc. Two people with equal visual acuity could stop see the dress in different colors because their visual cortex interprets the signals from the optic nerve differently.
Ultimate Halloween costume idea.
Female identical twins. One wears the dress in blue and black. The other wears the dress in white and gold. One goes into the Halloween party while the other stays in the car. They switch in and out throughout the night.
Hilarity ensues.
It's one color on my iPhone and another on my MacBook. Without knowing anything more about it, I believe some of what's occurring has to do with the technology displaying the image.
This is neat too: https://grack.com/demos/dress/.
Yep... that's basically it... It comes down to "do you believe the dress is in a shadow"... if you do, your mind compensates and you see white and gold. If you don't, you see blue and black.
Its the February 26th, 2015 version of do you see a rabbit or a duck...
except I can see the rabbit AND the duck...but I only see white and gold...can't force myself to see black and blue
one of my coworkers saw blue and tan though...so that's new
Yes, but can you see the walrus?
I see a snail reflected along the X axis.
yeah I can see a snail in a puddle or something
I see the label of a delicious milk stout.
oh man, yes
Leg, but I'm overly fond of the nut brown myself. Though honestly everything they do is great.
That's it.
A lot of this has to do with color values and computer monitor display.
Right now, on 4 different devices on my desk, it displays 3 different color combinations.
I see the dress as shades of purple regardless of where I put the slider, the other part looks brown to me except for all the way to the the Blue/Black side where it looks black and the purple is a really dark Blue-Purple color.
I see white and gold. Blake sees blue and black. He's thinking about shaving me off.
how DARE he!!!?
It kind of reminds me of this illusion from the show Brain Games, where the two boxes are actually the same color (cover the transition between the boxes) but your brain makes you think that the bottom one is lighter in color because it looks like it's in shadow.
That is witchcraft
BURRRRNN HERRRR
In my cinematographer mind, it's a matter of white balance. When not balanced correctly (which can happen with iPhones in dim lighting like this situation) whites can look very blue. In this case, the picture was probably taken with the dress in natural light, such as that through a window, and the phone taking the picture was in a shadow, and there was most likely artificial/fluorescent lighting in the background to throw the camera off. That type of scenario would easily distort the white balance in a mediocre smart phone camera.
Example of bad white balance that makes white look blue:
So in other words, the shitty quality of the iPhone camera caused the internet to explode in a ridiculously trivial argument yesterday.
See, this is why you should go with Android
More like this is reason #879 why not to shoot in "Auto" mode on any camera, even cell phones. You always have to account for the white balance in the environment you're in, otherwise you end up with poor pictures.
Actually it's the opposite. Other pictures of the same dress have proven that it is in fact blue.
Ha, this could be argued, yes. But even decent camcorders have the same issue.
The problem is that the dress is actually black and blue, so maybe the opposite of what you describe is happening?
http://www.businessinsider.com/origin-of-white-gold-or-black-blue-dress-...
#SOURCES !!!
And there's probably some computer screening the Internet looking for "dress" and categorizing people into columns with "blue/black" and "white/gold" as well as looking for other color combinations. The screening process is that if you see "tan/blue" or "green/gold", you're in the category they're looking for.
#Samaritan
So what you're saying is, when the real Matrix is built, the choice will be black/blue dress or white gold dress... not red pill, blue pill?
Amazon: Roman Women's Lace Detail Bodycon Dress Royal Blue
So yeah, that about settles it....
Yes, that dress is blue black. The one in the link is blue gold.
Its blue and gold only because its see through lace and the way the sun was hitting and reflecting off of it. Just all in all a picture of terrible quality.
So when I heard about this, my initial thought was, "Slow news day, huh?" My second thought was that a good way to prove what color it actually was would be to look at the negative of the image. My phone has a Negative Colors widget, so I turned it on to look at the picture. Normally, I see the dress as blue and black. When I turn on the Negative Colors, the blue part becomes yellowish-orange or gold and the black parts become white. Since the light differences and rods/cones explanations show people as seeing blue vs white and black vs gold, not blue vs gold and black vs white, then I think the negative is a reasonable way to prove that it is indeed blue and black. My wife got irritated with me because I kept yelling at the TV, "Just show the negative you morons!" Then, of course, they showed the actual dress on the television and it is indeed blue and black.
At least the Amazon Reviews are gold...or is that blue?
SOLVED IT!!! nsfw?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx9lX49B-LU
It is the tilt angle you use to view your screen. Try varying the angle and seeing if it makes a difference to you.
nailed it .....
Am I the only one who saw light blue and gold? I knew I was different. :-)
I see light purple and brown
Do not try to determine the color of the dress because that is impossible. Instead try to realize the truth.
What is the truth?
There is no dress.
The link for that photo is NSFW!