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"The Dress"

    • 453 posts
    March 1, 2015 6:05 AM PST

    By now most of you have seen pics of the dress that appears to be completely different colors depending on the unique structure of your eyes. Most see it as either blue and black or white and gold. Others see it as completely different colors. I showed 16 people are work and I got 5 different combos of responses LOL 

     

    What colors do *YOU* see ? I see dark blue and black. 

     

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    This post was edited by Jason at March 1, 2015 9:15 AM PST
    • 318 posts
    March 1, 2015 6:22 AM PST

    I don't see how anyone can see Black and Blue. I see white and gold. And taking it into photoshop, those are the colors in the photo...

     

    #7c88b8 -- white / light blue

    #5a4a3d -- gold / brown

     


    This post was edited by Wellspring at March 1, 2015 7:55 AM PST
    • 180 posts
    March 1, 2015 6:37 AM PST

    My two colors are more light purple and charcoal (black).

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    • 102 posts
    March 1, 2015 6:43 AM PST
    I'm team White/Gold. Tying this into gaming though....if this is so, I wonder if we all see different things in the environments that are created? Maybe Monty would know?
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    March 1, 2015 6:56 AM PST

    Blue and Black (more light purple and brown depending which pic I look at)

    Here is an explanation for it and the answer (Spoiler: It's Blue and Black) ;)

    http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/

    "At least we can all agree on one thing: The people who see the dress as white are utterly, completely wrong." lol

     

    The girl who posted it explains and shows a better picture of the dress.

    http://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiakoerner/the-dress-is-blue-and-black-says-the-girl-who-saw-it-in-pers#.yiLzvWm22

     

    Bridesmaid wearing the dress next to the bride:


    This post was edited by VR-Mod1 at March 1, 2015 6:56 PM PST
    • 453 posts
    March 1, 2015 7:13 AM PST

    What's funny is when people look at it and move there monitors up and down at different angles so that it in effect becomes lighter and darker as they move it, some people see black and blue for the darker moments and then as they move their monitors to the lighter view it becomes white and gold. My wife when she views it *always* sees white and gold, albeit darker and lighter shades of both colors as the monitor moves. I on the other hand *always* see black and blue but different shades of those as the monitor moves. The real life dress is blue and black, but the lighting in the pic is so odd that it can be perceived as different colors depending on your eye structure and health and it's interesting about what Wellspring said about how photoshop perceived the colors. 

     

     

     http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2972286/The-dress-divided-internet-blue-black.html#v-4083717398001

     

     

    Edit: On a side not I was reading a couple days ago how the color blue may have not existed (perceived) until more modern times. There are tribes in Africa that even today still cannot see blue but can see shades of green most people cannot. 


    This post was edited by Jason at March 1, 2015 9:07 PM PST
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    • 102 posts
    March 1, 2015 7:22 AM PST
    Interesting. I'm like your wife though Jason, I ALWAYS see white and gold, no matter how/where I look at it, lol.
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    March 1, 2015 7:23 AM PST

    Yeah it's pretty crazy, I love stuff like this though, I'm big on science and finding out why things like this appear as they do etc. I find it really interesting but I have always seen it in softer/darker shades of Blue and Black too except for one photo which was altered and it looked white and gold..but was a photoshop lol.


    This post was edited by VR-Mod1 at March 1, 2015 7:43 AM PST
    • 39 posts
    March 1, 2015 9:14 AM PST

    I see a light lavender and gold, but the lavender could probably also be white with a shadow.  How it could also be dark blue and black sort of breaks my brain.  Lol.

    • 378 posts
    March 1, 2015 4:15 PM PST

    Team white/Gold here

    • 91 posts
    March 1, 2015 6:29 PM PST

    for the record, i see lavender and gold, but all dresses look the same laying on the bedroom floor ;)

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    March 1, 2015 8:34 PM PST

    The question isn't what color is the original color of the Dress. It is, what color is it in the photo.

     

    Color software can easily determine there is no blue or black in that photo.

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    March 1, 2015 9:47 PM PST
    Hieromonk said:

    The question isn't what color is the original color of the Dress. It is, what color is it in the photo.

     

    Color software can easily determine there is no blue or black in that photo.

    Software already has determined there is blue in it mate, check out the link I posted and read through it.

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    This post was edited by VR-Mod1 at March 1, 2015 10:33 PM PST
    • 671 posts
    March 1, 2015 10:58 PM PST

    fascinating...

    I come back to this page and it looks a shade of black & blue...  (and I no longer see the white & gold I saw earlier). How weird is that..?

     

     

     

     

    • 753 posts
    March 1, 2015 11:24 PM PST

    I've seen the picture several times now, and it always appeared as light blue/gold to me. No idea where black should be in there? :)