What colour is the dress?
lol how many ppl have shitty monitor and see this in black and blue. You guys need to buy IPS screens, and not use crappy LCD TN panels, with bad color reproduction.
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I see the Black & blue and white & gold pictures, as completely different color :(, also I argued here a little with a user who takes it too seriously :/
http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/p8htt/what-colour-is-the-dress/search?page=2#Mam9uYW
Maybe I said it too loudly, with "shitty monitor", but idk, since it seems that clear to me.
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...black and blue is exactly what IPS monitors see, you dolt
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Well not mine then, and others ppl may agree too, is very clear to me that these 2 dresses have absolutely 2 different colors, http://puu.sh/gfgqe/462d11cd64.jpg Blue on left and bluegreyish(due to bad illumination) on right, I even compared it in Gimp, http://i.imgur.com/EhcbiAU.jpg, but it's like super obvious, like comparing grass color and sea color, and there is also absolutely no black color, Black vs gold color> http://i.imgur.com/04UBQZs.jpg even Hex shows this colors are different.
If for you these 2 are absolutely sure same color, then I cannot understand what the reason of this things, because monitors can't be that different and optical illusion are easily reveled, so idk...seems nobody is right after all. The dress sells as black and Blue, if its that color, idk what to say, it's like making a person see the grass in sea color, when it's obviously green.
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Black goes shiny in the light, add that to an overly warm (yellowy photo) and you get gold. The reason people say black and blue is because they know that colour is actually black because they know that sunlight and picture quality are distorting the colour, not because they see pure black.
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You are the first who clearly explains why it happens, the other user I argued with only said it's because black goes shinny in the light, and linked me a screenshot where she compared blue color to grayish white, which made it even more confusing, she was like saying these colors are the same, when besides eyes, even Hex showed they are very different, and saying me that there is absolutely no gold in any variant ;/,well I guess your argument is valid and convinces me.
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Blue and gold is what I see. I just can't imagine it white as much as I try tho
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Maybe you're anre't trying hard enough? Just joking. It kinda is tinted blue.
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Blue and black is what I see.
But you can see anything in the MINDS EYE
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Blue and very dark, brownish yellow. Could be black, and the yellow tint would be just the camera sucking.
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I don't get it how someone can see something black on this dress D:
And I wonder what the right answer should be. Is it Blue and gold (or brown)?
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I see white and gold, the blue and black one is just too ugly.
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The trolling based around this one picture is ridiculous. There's absolutely no such thing as 'different eye-sights' and 'perception of colours' unless you're colour blind. This is ridiculous. Get a new monitor or fix it. Of course, the ego of oneself is enflated to the point of denial.
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lel.
There is obvious illumination from a bright light on the dress. All of the colour-testing is incorrect unless tested on the original model(s) on the website, which I'm still skeptical about that because the one in the picture has sleeve-like parts to it, the website-version doesn't.
Also, yeah, there is no 'variety in eyes'. You either have normal eyes or you don't.
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The sleeves are actually a bolero jacket, not part of the dress itself. It had me confused too in the beginning.
It's not as much about the way the eyes perceive it (although I'm pretty sure we all see things in a slightly different manner) but how the brain treats the information. There were four of us at my house looking at the exact same picture, on the same monitor, and we still couldn't agree on whether we saw a white/gold or blue/black dress. It has to do with how everyone's brain react to the picture.
If your first reaction to the washed out colors is that the picture is overexposed you will naturally tend to think about the darker colors (blue and black) and that's how you will see the dress. If your first impression is that the picture is underexposed, your mind will instead try to ignore the blueish tint of the dress and assume it was white to begin with. In that scenario, the brownish accents are perceived as gold.
In the end, the dress itself is blue & black. The picture of the dress is light blue and brownish due to poor lighting and crappy sensors.
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Okay, I'll admit I was overreacting quite a bit but I saw another comment chain that devolved into insulting/accusing someone else of seeing it wrong because they had a shitty monitor. Whether not that's the case is irrelevant. With the correct settings and not irregular settings ( too dark or too bright) you shouldn't have a problem. That being said, gold has NO relation to the with the colour(or hue? I forget what you call the different # variations of a specific colour e.g. dark blue and light blue) blue, so that's why it makes no sense. The blue is even a distinctly dark, navy-blue.
Point is, it's clearly just an attempt to make a big deal out of it and people are going along with it, except for the very few(my personal assumption, I haven't done tests on the numbers or anything) that are either colour blind or have brightness issues on their monitor. It's ridiculous that this is even a thing and I'm honestly waiting for a comment asking me if I'm a psyche major and whether not I know how the brain and the psyche works, both of which are (hypothetically, I suppose)irrelevant.
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I see it as blue and orange. I am a freak of nature.
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Everyone can stop debating now, for Science Sqectre has arrived with the answer! As you have all no doubt seen, the dress in question is listed on many sites for sale as a black and blue dress. However, due to a psychological thing known as colour constancy, our brains may interperet this dress as different colours. This is similar to seeing an object in a shadow and perceiving it as a brighter colour than another object of the same colour without shadow (you can probably look around the internet for some examples). This is because the brain sees a shadow and thinks, "shadow = darker, so I must make this colour lighter." In the case of this dress, however, there is no shadow. Due to the small amount of extra material in the photograph, the brain doesn't know what to make of it. This photo was taken in an artificially lit room, and so many people percieve the gold as being a reflection of the light off of the black. If you were to view this photo in an artificially lit room, compared to a sunlit room you would percieve the dress as a different colour.
TL;DR
The dress is black and blue under artificial (yellow) light, and white and gold under natural (blue) light. The dress in question is Black and Blue however.
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Also if you still don't want to believe that the dress is black and blue, invert the colour. It shows white and gold, which wouldn't be the case if the dress was white and gold.
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My parody-thread was closed as expected, thanks to everyone who participated and voted "Half-Life 3" - that was the right answer!
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blue and black, all variety shows on TV put this photo...
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Ok, so I could not help but put this to the test. Here is what I did:
I displayed the image on 8 different screens, ranging from the oldest CRT I could dig up, to a new, out of the box, ASUS MX279H.
7 of the monitors went through professional calibration. 2 VA (Color shifting at angles), 2 IPS (High color reproduction), 2 TN (Low color reproduction), and 1 Plane-to-line (brighter, better viewing angles, high color reproduction).
I forced 7 of my coworkers to come tell me the color of a dress on each monitor. 4 of them thought I was a great guy for buying my girlfriend a dress, 2 thought I was gay, and 1 asked how much I was paid.
the results, broken down by monitor type:
CRT: 3 out of 7 agreed that it was green and black/dark blue. Maybe blue and black. the other 4 figured it was probably white and black. They could not be sure (these monitors have no reason to live).
VA: 6 out of 7 agreed it was white and gold. unless viewed from an angle, it then started to turn blue/black. 1 said it had a blueish tint.
IPS: 7 out of 7 agreed it was white/gold.
TN: 4 out of 7 agreed it was leaning more towards the blue/black side. 3 said white/brown, or brownish.
PTL: 7 out of 7 agreed it was white/gold.
I tried one more test. I had each person close their eyes for 10 seconds, then open their eyes, immediately looking at the dress (displayed on the PTL screen). All 7 agreed that it started out blueish, but faded back to white.
So...make of that what you will.
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wait what? the MX279H displayed it as while and gold? My PB248Q disagrees and that should not be the case as they are both IPS and thus impervious to colour shifting...
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Hey, now its blue and black! Am I supposed to keep changing my vote when it change colors?
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Can anyone explain me how is it possible to see it white and gold? I've read some comments, xkcd, etc, but still can't understand it (lightning matters of course, but still...)
P.S. There is even some dress (or whatever) in the down left corner which is obviously white and black. Seeing it with the main dress excludes the possibility for the asked dress to be white and gold. So... I definitely don't get it :|
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I've seen it as white and gold all day, but just started seeing it as blue and black. It just seems to be right at the tipping point of contrast where it plays a trick on people's eyes. By now, my eyes are rather tired (I got off work about 8 hours ago) and my room is darker now than at any point I had seen the picture before. When I wake up tomorrow, I'll probably see Gold and White again.
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Light room, my day has started not so long ago - still the same result. I understand how this effect can be caused (mostly lightning and human brain features) but can't see it in another color. I have only two assumptions (still doubtful) why is it so for me: quality of the screen and eyesight quality.
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This video explains it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AskAQwOBvhc
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Thank you. So again, it's the effect caused by the lightning. My brain is broken then :) I can't see it white and gold. No matter how hard I try.
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There seems to be a debate over on Tumbrl about a dress and what colour it is. People seem to be divided into two groups. To those who see it as blue and black and to those who see is as white and gold. I thought it would be interesting to see your view of the matter and possibly settle the debate.
So the big question is: What colour is the dress?
Also another thing: Why do you think people are seeing it differently?
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