The Dress

[I Took the Red Pill]

I find it to be pretty cool that different people looking at the exact same picture are seeing different things. It's kind of like that shadow dancer gif rotating clockwise or counter-clockwise, except it's even weirder.

What confuses me more than the picture itself is the face that like half of the people in this thread seem legitimately upset by it. Like, is this actually making you angry? I guess it's the cool thing to disparage things that become popular on the internet.

No, we can have a 30 page thread with people arguing about whether soup is a food or a drink, but this, this has gone too far.

[Loony BoB]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9bawbauabr...11.10.png?dl=0

Pretty much the best logic I've seen thus far.

Okay, I'll bite. This isn't even subjective. The dress is objectively black and blue. Your monitor is either trout, or you have the exposure/brightness up too high. Calibrate your monitor. Now can I close this?

I just turned the brightness and contrast etc. down to 0 and it's still looking pretty much exactly the same, just not as bright.

In the real world, sure, the colour might change depending on the lighting. But what is in that specific photograph? Nah, that's pretty defined.

Also, what Red Pill said.

[Loony BoB]

Interesting article on why people see it differently, that expands on the xkcd comic to a billion degrees: http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science...s-color-dress/

[Psychotic]

I can't see anything but blue and black now so I've made the lone solitary vote. And it's funny, when I first saw this thread I was convinced it was white and gold and had no idea how anyone could see it differently. xD

[Loony BoB]

I see the original image as white and gold, but neither exact. Like, pale blue? Yeah, I can see that, but it's so pale it's basically white. Orange or gold? Eh. I don't see black at all, though. Even on darkened images. The only time I've seen it as black is on that shopping site screenshotted earlier in the thread.

[Freya]

Last night it was white and gold on my laptop. In the big picture it's white and gold from my phone this morning. For a moment in the small one it was black and blue but I scrolled down then back and my eyes adjusted properly and its white and gold. My verdict is that it is white and gold but the pattern and lighting and size of the picture you're looking at can cause a optical illusion.

[Old Manus]

Okay now it's black and blue what is happening

[Shauna]

It's freakin' weird - I look at that image Red Pill posted earlier of the shop page and the image and I can see it darkening but then I look at the actual picture and it starts to lighten up.

Humans are crazy.

[Loony BoB]

Okay now it's black and blue what is happening

Just this.

[Psychotic]

The makers of the dress are now trying to rush out a white and gold version to cash in. Fair play!

Does this help anyone? http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/625/med...70_science.png

[Freya]

[Pike]

I haven't seen this but it's kind of interesting, it looks white and gold to me but my monitor is about twelve years old

Why is everyone freaking out about how much they hate this? "There is more important stuff to worry about" is not an answer because by that logic I'm not allowed to worry about anything ever again aside from starving kids in Africa or w/e

[Loony BoB]

The makers of the dress are now trying to rush out a white and gold version to cash in. Fair play!

"I distinctly remember asking for the white and gold version, but it is definitely black and blue. I would like a refund."

[Crop]

I don't get all the hate for this! It's a nice bit of fun, and it's provided some entertaining discussions in the office from people seeing it differently throught the day.

I've only ever seen it in blue and black, although it briefly flashed white and gold for me once.

[blackmage_nuke]

Out of curiosity has anyone who saw it as black and blue switched to white and gold? I've heard a bunch of people claiming that it went from whit and gold to black and blue but not the other way around.