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[Holmes]

The actual dress.

So the top black part is like a see-through black, which is why it kind of looks gold-ish when not worn by anyone.

 

[Xtyle]

regardless what colors each person sees, I will also say this, not all monitors will display these colors the same. Basically not all our monitors are calibrated to display the colors the same...so maybe there is that too??

 

[Yado]

White & Gold for me.

 

[VisceralBowl]

Spoiler

I'm just arguing about the primary colors of the picture (which are obviously blueish and goldish), not the actual objects inside of them.

 

[Despera]

it makes sense to do that when it's the only part of the dress that's actually lit.

But it's not the only part that's lit?

You guys are freaking me out

 

[User 479360]

White and gold

 

[FiggyCal]

Come on guys, HOW IS THIS BLACK?

We might be getting trolled. I don't even...

This is clearly white and gold.

 

[Pryce]

The actual dress.

Now that's black and blue. The OP image is white and gold.

WHAT'S GOING ON.

 

[Skux]

White and gold. The white look a bit blueish, but that's because of the white balance.

Why on earth would it be black to anyone? It would have to be dark to be black.

 

[ZealousD]

Seriously, it's plainly blue and a dark, somewhat brownish gold. I can sort of see how the gold might be an overexposed black, but I cannot fathom how you can see white in that.

It's not like a white-white, like paper or something. It's a white color that's been tinted blue because it's in shadow.

 

[GameAddict411]

blue and gold.

 

[Anustart]

Crushed Golds. Fuck.

 

[KillGore]

Black and Blue!

 

[Acerac]

I agree with MS paint and photoshop, people with higher functioning eyes are full of shit.

 

[PaperFlame]

so i tested this on 10 of my friends, and one says its black and blue. So you guys are telling the truth <.<

 

[televator]

Anybody who sees black and blue in that pic should be rounded up by sentinels. You mutants are a threat to humanity.

 

[Floridian]

The actual dress.

Same dress as OP atm

 

[Izuna]

That's as dark as 3:00 A.M

This is serious, stop trolling.

 

[Bold One]

Black and Blue and apparently it has to do with your eyes. Higher functioning eyes see black and blue.

Copied from Tumblr



Edit: guess it was put into the OP earlier, my bad

what a load of tumblr nonesense.

 

[depths20XX]

Am I the only one who sees blue and gold?

No, it's blue and gold to me too. I looked at it on my PC and phone to make sure.

 

[LiK]

It's red and green

but seriously, i see Blue and Gold.

 

[SlowRevolution]

gold is not the same as black, you lunatics.

it's blue and gold.

 

[Chabbles]

The original pic is some sort of new super stealth gif image.

 

[Despera]

I remember having a lengthy discussion with friends about the perception of colour, citing different articles about the subject online.

but this is kind of experiment is new to me haha

 

[Soul Beat]

It's clearly a demon dress! We must exorcise it, burn it and exorcise it again.

It's the only way to be sure!

 

[danielcw]

blue and gold.

Me, too

 

[N.Domixis]

Who owns ps4 or xbox one, maybe thats the reason? lol

 

[Chuck]

itt people discover they're colorblind as fuck

 

[ZealousD]

Okay, now this is freaking weird. For shits and giggles, I inverted the image. To me, the colors look EXACTLY THE SAME but they... switched positions.

 

[NinjaTehFish]

So GAF, I will attach the explanation below. TL DR, some of you will primarily see blue and black in this photo, and some will see white and gold. I personally see blue and black, while my girlfriend sees white and gold.

There is also a chance that I am full of shit, so see for yourself and compare results.

Explanation:

I just see a dress.

 

[Izuna]

We might be getting trolled. I don't even...



This is clearly white and gold.

That isn't white though, look at the colour closely. Does it look like the same colour as the text (dark GF background) the reply button even?

Okay, now this is freaking weird. For shits and giggles, I inverted the image. To me, the colors look EXACTLY THE SAME but they... switched positions.

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

 

[StoopKid]

We might be getting trolled. I don't even...



This is clearly white and gold.

I truly did see blue and black at first.

I don't know what kind of witchcraft this is.

 

[BraXzy]

I see weird blue with gold, but I know that the weird blue is just badly photographed white.

So white and gold.

 

[MiszMasz]

Feeling kinda sorry for the people in this thread who've lived their lives thinking they were white when they're actually blue.

 

[Frith]

i'm looking at a color calibrated monitor i use for grading and its white and gold with a slight blue white balance. white like you were shooting in daylight with tungsten white balanced camera.

my eyes are sweet and also rad

photoshop says blueish white and gold

blue and black crew hi functioning like having an extra chromosome is not always the best

a-v-b when you say is a saturated black don't you mean was not is, who cares how we got here the colors are measurable as white and gold

 

[ivysaur12]

What if the dress is from ISIS

 

[Chezzymann]

I really don't see how black could be that level of bright brown. And its not my eyes, as others have pointed out in this thread.

 

[Kimaka]

I feel like I am being trolled. It is clearly black and blue even when I change the brightness.

 

[L95]

I see Blue and yellowish-black(goddamit sun).

:B

I love blue

 

[Floridian]

Okay, now this is freaking weird. For shits and giggles, I inverted the image. To me, the colors look EXACTLY THE SAME but they... switched positions.

Now that's gold & white. Not what I see in OP

 

[Toppot]

Its white and gold, the white is maybe a little bluey/grey, but its white and gold.

 

[Jamix012]

what a load of tumblr nonesense.

But it's been shown constantly that the actual dress IS black and blue and no white and gold version of the same dress exists.

 

[Orbis Tabula]

So you see what, a gradient? That fades to black?

If I take a colour picker, I can see that the darkest part of the dress is that colour with less luminance.

I think a big part of this discussion is going to revolve around a difference of interpretation at this point. Both types of people will hear "What color is this dress in this photo?"

Some will interpret that as "What color is the dress...that is in this photo." That's currently me. So I can see a picture of something that's black, and even when the picture is all washed out, even when that means the actual pixel no longer has a value of 'black', I know that the dress in the photo is black, so I say black.

Others will interpret it as "What color is the dress as it appears in the photo?" Those people (me previously, I think) saw it as white and gold. Because the actually values of the colors of the pixels are white and gold. Regardless of what the color of the dress actually is, in the photo, it looks like white and gold to these people.

I'm wondering if this distinction of "what color is the dress v. what color are the pixels" has to do with people getting different colors. I mean, I saw white and gold for most of the thread, but when I saw the corrected version, suddenly it switched to blue and black. Is that because, now that I know what color the dress actually is in reality, my mind won't let me see it how the pixels actually are in the photo? I don't know. I'd have to do more tests.

My hypothesis still wouldn't explain why some people see black&blue immediately, and white some see white&gold, even after exposure to the corrected image.

 

[RoKKeR]

Just asked my two roommates and they said white and gold. Was pretty surprised for some reason because it is so clearly blue and gold to me, interesting stuff!

 

[FiggyCal]

That isn't white though, look at the colour closely. Does it look like the same colour as the text (dark GF background) the reply button even?

I looked at it on my second monitor and it is actual more blue than white. Still very visibly gold on both though.

 

[Vaporak]

I'd be really helpful if people looked at the photoshop selections of the colors and said what they see there. It seems to me like there's a lot of people with bad eyesight in here. :/

 

[EmCeeGramr]

It's not like a white-white, like paper or something. It's a white color that's been tinted blue because it's in shadow.

White things might be slightly tinted blue being in shadow, they aren't a vibrant sky blue!

 

[Burt]

Okay shit, I came back to it after ten minutes and it went from being very black and very blue to very white and very gold. Something is wrong here.

I can definitively say that if you're arguing technicalities and stuff, you're doing it wrong. It's very clearly one or the other.

 

[nbnt]

I see white and gold. So.. I'm not special?

 

[Nanashrew]

Okay, now this is freaking weird. For shits and giggles, I inverted the image. To me, the colors look EXACTLY THE SAME but they... switched positions.

Opposite of blue/purple is yellow and opposite of black is white.