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Post by Square on Feb 27, 2015 7:25:30 GMT -5
From Reddit's Ask Science subreddit "Hi! me and some other grad students have been discussing this for the last half hour. It's likely due to some kind of colour constancy illusion, where some people are perceiving the context to be something like "lit by blueish daylight" and others are perceiving it to be something like "under yellow department store lights." In the former case, your brain will try and get the objective (if such a thing can be said) colour by subtracting out the blue as a shadow, and in the latter case it will do the same thing for the filigree by subtracting out the yellow as a reflection. This is a common illusion in psych : www.echalk.co.uk/amusements/OpticalIllusions/colourPerception/colourPerception.html . but it's not seen that often 'in the wild,' even though your brain does this constantly."
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Feb 27, 2015 7:47:40 GMT -5
So this how Apocalypse is so powerful. I am White and Gold!!
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Feb 27, 2015 8:29:10 GMT -5
Because it seems the whole damn internet can't decide It is a white Twix bar. Wait a minute, maybe it's a Boost bar. Wait... are we even playing "What BAR?" here?
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Post by Jiren on Feb 27, 2015 8:54:15 GMT -5
It's white and gold
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Post by Jiren on Feb 27, 2015 8:56:54 GMT -5
Makes more sense than the actual book
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Post by Hit Girl on Feb 27, 2015 9:32:50 GMT -5
It's the New Day colour.
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Post by Pooh Carlson on Feb 27, 2015 9:36:00 GMT -5
Still black and blue
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Feb 27, 2015 9:37:21 GMT -5
If nothing else this proves the importance of White Balancing your camera
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2015 9:51:05 GMT -5
Who knew Reigns was good with a sewing machine? (Or Bad)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2015 9:55:02 GMT -5
So for me it's about the light around whatever screen I'm looking at. I just looked at the picture, in a well-lit room on a bright monitor, and it's back to being white/extremely faint blue and gold/yellow. In a dark room on a small mobile screen the dress was much darker. Still not black but really close.
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Post by Long A, Short A on Feb 27, 2015 10:57:00 GMT -5
is booty hole ugly a color?
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Post by CuJ0 Will Keep Dancing on Feb 27, 2015 11:18:59 GMT -5
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Post by Bo Rida on Feb 27, 2015 11:40:30 GMT -5
The dress is White and Gold, but looks blueish-gray and a dark shade of gold due to the light hitting it. There is NO black in it at all. I don't get why this is such a big deal. The actual colors are NOT a subjective thing, there is a completely objective answer. The only variable is how people perceive the color. The gold is #7f6e43. The blue-gray goes from around #8497b7 to #66687f depending on how the light hits it. Again, this isn't a subjective thing, colors of the dress in the image are these colors: Hah yes! It's like one of those magic eye things I could never do, I can look at the edited versions that show different colours but when I go back to the original it never changes.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2015 12:00:08 GMT -5
I cant believe its blue and black! Its not even light blue!!!!!
It looks white and gold to me, I would have even put money down. So I wont change my vote from White and gold.
I do hope this isn't a new type of marketing that we are going to be saturated with from now on.
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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on Feb 27, 2015 12:00:13 GMT -5
It's black and blue goddammit!
Or if not black, at least some weird brown colour. How the f*** do ya get white and gold?
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Post by Amazing Kitsune on Feb 27, 2015 12:00:56 GMT -5
It changes before my very eyes. I see it white and gold sometimes when I look at it and black and blue other times. Same picture. On this thread, for example. The first picture was white and gold(brown). When I scrolled down, a few posts later the other picture of the dress was black and blue. Then I scrolled up to check the picture, the original one was black and blue.
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Post by BigWill on Feb 27, 2015 13:34:51 GMT -5
I don't know how anyone sees white in that dress. And while the dark color looks gold, you can see that it's the strong lighting that's giving it that color, based on how bright the background looks.
So the answer is blue and black.
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Post by Raskovnik on Feb 27, 2015 13:45:16 GMT -5
I got into an argument with my sister and her friend when she sent me this because it was clearly blue and black, and the dress itself is confirmed to be blue and black, so I cannot fathom how anyone else could see it any other way. It is as simple as seeing something for what it actually is. I didn't even feel validated when the "truth" came out because it's like someone confirming red is indeed red. Yeah, no shit, but thanks.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Feb 27, 2015 13:56:23 GMT -5
What color is the dress? Black and blue. The debate is, what colors do you see when you look at a specific picture of this dress? I honestly see light blue and brown/gold. I am colorblind, however. Using a paint tool, here are the colors from the original picture (I know another poster already posted something similar). I've taken the colors from various sections of the dress. I simply don't see black in this dress, even though the dress actually does have black on it. I could see how some people might see some white when they look at the dress, depending on the brightness of their computer or at what angle they are looking at the picture.
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Post by hotshotalex on Feb 27, 2015 14:08:24 GMT -5
I saw white and gold.
Then I saw blue and black.
Now I see white and gold again.
I don't even know what is real anymore.
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