"What colour is this dress" craze

[BobG]

This is what I think everyone sees, and the difference in answers depends on whether you are addressing what you actually see, or what color the dress is in real life.

No. There's more to it than that.

It depends on which color the person keys on to make their decision about what the dress must look like in real life.

The people that see black seem to be able to kind of go with a dull brown and blue, but there's no way they see that dress as being white.

The only way I can see blue and black is if I look from halfway across the room. So I conclude those seeing blue and black must be really, really farsighted - so farsighted they're actually using a back scratcher to type their posts because they can't reach their keyboard any other way.

 

[robphy]

http://www.iflscience.com/brain/explaining-perceptions-dress

 

[Borek]

This is the original dress photographed with a proper camera and lighting, you can clearly see

if you have properly calibrated monitor.

Which most people have not. Plus, our eyes are not identical.

Years ago I have seen team of people trying to reproduce a particular shade of deep red/cherry color using highly sophisticated hardware and software. They could not. Some tints are like that.

 

[DaveC426913]

To some extent it may depend on peoples screen/monitor settings. I see blue/black, but can change to white/gold by altering the colour temperature of my
display.

Several people, shoulder-to-shoulder, all looking at the same image at the same time, adamantly disagreeing.

 

[DaveC426913]

http://www.iflscience.com/brain/explaining-perceptions-dress

Here it is in white:
http://www.romanoriginals.co.uk/content/ebiz/romanoriginals/invt/70931/70931ivo_large0.jpg

 

[ZapperZ]

I wrote elsewhere that I want a piece of the fabric and use a UV-VIS to look at the reflected spectrum. That should give an objective and quantitative answer to all this mess.

Zz.

 

[DaveC426913]

I wrote elsewhere that I want a piece of the fabric and use a UV-VIS to look at the reflected spectrum. That should give an objective and quantitative answer to all this mess.

Zz.

Which would be great if the dress were uniquely identifiable. There are multiple dresses in both colours.

 

[ZapperZ]

Which would be great if the dress were uniquely identifiable. There are multiple dresses in both colours.

I'll take all of them.

:)

Zz.

 

[DaveC426913]

I'll take all of them.

And definitively demonstrate that both are right. Which would not solve the question of the dress in this pic.

 

[edward]

I am not even going to show this to my wife. We have had some very strongly worded discussions about the color charts at Home Depot. She calls me a color illiterate and then she looks at color charts under fluorescent lights. How about using the Home depot magic color matcher machine on this dress? : )

 

[Vanadium 50]

For me, it depends on the amount and color of the ambient light. Bright lights or fluorescents make it look white/gold and dimmer lights make it look blue/black.

 

[PFuser1232]

I see blue/gold.

 

[Enigman]

XKCD joins in-

'This white-balance illusion hit so hard because it felt like someone had been playing through the Monty Hall scenario and opened their chosen door, only to find there was unexpectedly disagreement over whether the thing they'd revealed was a goat or a car.'

 

[Enigman]

A few more cool illusions of the same kind-
http://www.echalk.co.uk/amusements/OpticalIllusions/colourPerception/colourPerception.html

 

[Borg]

http://41.media.tumblr.com/3caa5ce1ecc7b7b301db1b615ec38cb4/tumblr_nkfl3apOgj1qd57r9o1_500.jpg

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Yes I see it's gray too.

 

[HomogenousCow]

Blue black to me, no doubt about that.

 

[epenguin]

I'd seen this before in last two days. First time it ws (Ivory) white and gold and I thought, OK I'm normal, but second time it was blue and black. Since then it's been white and gold. It was for two others I showed it to. Every time on same I-pad.

 

[leroyjenkens]

Here is the color in photoshop

View attachment 79687

I tried that with MS paint and got a similar result. From looking at the picture, I see whitish and goldish. I don't see the dark blue and black that the dress really is. Regardless of whatever color the dress really is, the picture shows a light blue and gold color. Putting it into MS paint and using the eyedropper to select the darkest parts of the fabric, it gives a result of light blue and gold. Never dark blue and definitely not black. MS paint isn't being affected by an optical illusion, so whatever colors it says the picture is, then that's what the colors are for that picture.

 

[thankz]

someone just changed the hue/saturation settings in photoshop to make the dress appear blue/black.

to girls (I used to work at a jewelry co,) white and blue are the same, black and gold are the same in the world of hi catour

my fav color combo is white/blue like a real Shelby cobra, if you look at the flags from around the world you can identify how a nations people think by the flag design and colors they use, even though I'm from the us I'd say I'd have to identify with the flag of finland.

shoutz to my niece Shelby my little geek cobra!

 

[DaveC426913]

to girls (I used to work at a jewelry co,) white and blue are the same, black and gold are the same in the world of hi catour

What? Are you asserting that women in high couture lack the ability to see the difference between white and blue, or black and gold? They are colour blind by their profession?

 

[thankz]

I had an old verve jazz cd with the song on it "think pink"

"now I wouldn't tell a women what she ought to think, but if she's got to think, think pink"

 

[HomogenousCow]

I had an old verve jazz cd with the song on it "think pink"

"now I wouldn't tell a women what she ought to think, but if she's got to think, think pink"

I have no idea what that's supposed to mean, but I don't believe women are colorblind.