What is the color of this dress?
I love that it was so "everywhere' they even animated it into American Dad
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Was anyone ever able to see it as both like one of those perspective illusions? I can only see it as white and gold.
It was white and gold when I opened the post. I use dark mode in Lemmy. Then I opened Wikipedia and read about it for a few minutes in light mode. When I came back, the dress was black and blue suddenly.
I can't usually switch it on command, but it does switch for me.
And as of posting this and looking at Lemmy in dark mode, it's white and gold again.....
....and now it's blue and brown.
ive seen it as both. it depends on several factors (brightness of screen, environment, eyes). basically how your eye adapts with the picture.
the picture was taken with the perfect conditions in order for the problem to be a real problem (lit dress with an overly blown out background light) to cause eye adaption to trigger for some and not others.
I've never seen it as anything but white and gold.
Try squinting. I see white and gold normally but blue and black when I squint.
I cannot at all see the white. I can see it as blue and gold (from the top) but from the bottom, it definitely looks more like black and blue to me.
I just forced myself to. Kinda turned my phone away at an angle and tried covering the right side of the pic and forced myself to see it as blue and black. Then I couldn't stop seeing it unless I did a mental reset.
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I’ve seen both. The first time, the colors changed as I was looking at it. That was freaky
It's weird, back when this was trending, I always saw it as white and gold, but, looking at the picture above on my phone, it does kinda look blue and black
I constantly switch between seeing both.
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Augh, not this again! It was clearly white and gold when I opened this thread. Scrolled through comments, and now I can only see it as blue and black. Damn it, messing with my mind man!!!
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It's just not possible for it to be white and gold.
And it for real isn’t.
🎵 Whether you hear it as Laurel or Yanny,
Whether you prefer Oliver or Annie,
Brainstorm, Green Needle
Terrence Howard, Don Cheadle,
Still white and gold to me-e-e. 🎶
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There is no consensus on why the dress elicits such discordant perceptions.[31] The neuroscientists Bevil Conway and Jay Neitz believe they are a result of how the human brain perceives colour and chromatic adaptation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress#Scientific_explanations
The interesting thing, for me, is how people's reactions to the dress sparked that many studies of the phenomenon.
The interesting thing for me is how badly I want one side to be wrong and one to be right. It's weird that that feeling is there and so strong... for something seemingly insignificant
I mean we do know what color the dress actually was: Blue and black
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Did you know that the husband of this woman from the viral photo went to prison because he tried to kill her?
Edit: they were married
Did we need to? That's like the most "anyway" piece of info ever
Anyway, can you believe people see white n gold here? And we just let these freaks live among us??
Seriously though, I had never once considered the people that shared the image. And likely never will again so kudos lol
That's interesting
Husband.
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The dress can make you feel crazy if you’re talking to someone who sees the other colors, but this diagram from the wiki page makes me feel like i’m having a goddamn stroke just by looking at it.
they’re clearly not the same co- HOW ARE THEY THE SAME COLOR
What i dont get is that there is clearly no dim blue light where the picture was taken. By the background you can see everything is lit up plain as day. White-gold people are absolutely zonked for thinking that.
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I don't think I've ever seen it as anything but black and blue.
really? It's gold and white for me.. xD
Blue and yanny.
Oh so we're going to have an argument for dinner?
Ban all of the trolls on team blue/black
Someone bust out the hex code color picker...
Hell yea, please do. I need the results
It's been done; it's a grayish blue and a dark goldish brown. The lighting really messes with the coloring. Iirc the actually dress was discovered to be blue and black at some point.
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For me it was always light blue and brownish gold. Which is a shame, because that's a much less nice-looking color combination than either of the other two.
Still blue after all these years
A global phenomenon from 2015 counts as nostalgia?
That is nearly a decade ago
Which is like real world centuries in internet years.
A true blue post. 💙
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