The Dress is White the Dress is Blue

• #43

Fanghawk said:

Eclipse Dragon said:

"So people either discount the blue side, in which case they end up seeing white and gold, or discount the gold side, in which case they end up with blue and black."

So what am I doing when I see blue and gold?

Blue and gold are the correct dress colors. You are the chosen one.

Can we be the chosen two??? I'm also definitely a night owl. But I draw and paint and do digital art too - so maybe I've trained myself to see what's really happening with color? I definitely missed out on all of the hullabaloo, but this is a nifty little illusion if it is working on so many people. I shall now pester a couple of friends with this.

• #44

I can only see it as blue and black and I have seen it on a few different monitors.

• #45

garjian said:

The white on the other hand, I am absolutely baffled by.
I do not understand how anybody can confuse something so obviously blue with white, especially considering there is actual white from the blown out reflection right next to the dress.
They are not even remotely the same colour. If anything, the conditions make it look lilac/purple. Nothing close to white.

I might be able to explain it a bit.

When I saw it it looked gold and light blue to me. However, it was the same sort of "glowy" light blue that I see when white t-shirts are worn around black lights or bad flourescent lights, therefore, in my mind, even though I saw a light blue I was saying in my mind "it's white that's being affected by lighting in some way".

Or, as another example, it looks like a snow-blue or glacier-blue. When you look at a snow drift or a glacier you see a blueish color, but we know of course that snow is white and so when we see that shade of blue it's easy in our minds to convince ourselves it's white.

That's my take on it.

• #53

Lightknight said:

I think the images that we're shown differ. This one looks blue with darker gold/tan/black. The one I was shown this morning looked absolutely white and gold. I think some people are seeing a white-balanced version of this picture:

http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Untitled-12.jpg

The one I was shown first was the one on the far left. That still looks mostly white (but light blue) and gold while the middle one is clearly blue and black (or dark gold like it appears around the neck).

Turns out it was basically just viral marketing. There really are two different dresses, one white, one blue. My guess is through careful use of lighting and editing, they managed to trick the Internet that 'OMG! The dress changes color!
And then their online orders jumped some 300%+ over night.

• #59

Eclipse Dragon said:

Edit: For anybody who wants to test they're eyes to see how well they see color and in what areas they may be lacking. The Online Color Challenge [http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge] is a fun thing to do when you're bored.

I scored a 4, which seems pretty good.

Initially the dress looked white and gold. Now after taking that test, it's obviously blue and black. wierd

• #60

The funny thing is, when I first saw the picture (someone showing it around work on their phone) I could see both white-and gold AND blue-and-black. It seemed to vary depending on just where I focused my eyes on the image.

Also, I'm amused how many people will say "Well, I see it this way, and so obviously that's what it is, and anyone who says otherwise is just stupid".

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