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    My current feeling about this:


    Apparently, I have been declared banished.

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    It's blue and black, it's always been blue and black, I feel pity for anyone who doesn't see that.

    However, I'm just super excited that a dress broke the internet without having Kim Kardashian inside of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shiny View Post
    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?
    You realize that's not actually possible on pretty much any phone I've ever used right? Not natively anyway. So drop the tude thanks.

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    Guys, Is he wearing black and blue or white and gold?! I CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT!

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    Last edited by Freya; 02-27-2015 at 03:24 PM.

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    I went to bed and everything was normal. Then I wake up and that friggin dress thing is everywhere?

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    I've decided.CecilDissidiaModel.png He's wearing black and blue.

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    It's just gone back to white and gold for me! I know nobody else but me cares but that's cool!

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    I was mighty confused when I woke up today because there was all this talk of a dress everywhere and some people were claiming it's white and gold, which was bizarre to me because it clearly was not so! But then I read about it and it's actually intriguing that there can be such radical shifts in perception based on a handful of seemingly trivial factors.

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    Reading about this and learning about the science behind it is super cool. This is my favorite "meme" in forever. Can we have more like this? I want a Neato Optical Illusion of the Day.

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    If I stare REAL HARD I can make white/gold turn into blue/black.

    My eyes will fail even faster after all this.

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    It's obviously, objectively blue/black in "reality." If you see it as white/gold, I'm pretty sure it means your brain doesn't correctly process the way that color and light work in photos.

    I mean, the color displayed at the very top, for instance is "gold." Because that's how black looks in bright yellow, overexposed light. So when you see that it's dark "gold" and that everything else is overexposed, you make the natural adjustment and realize "in reality, this is black." Of course, nothing is "true black" in reality; but it's as black as anything else you call black.

    The blue ... this one truly makes no sense to me, it's blue both in actual palette and in light-adjusted reality, even the photo alterations that try to "whiten" it still typically leave it a little blue.

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    Now I see blue and gold I don't know what is happening

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spuuky View Post
    It's obviously, objectively blue/black in "reality." If you see it as white/gold, I'm pretty sure it means your brain doesn't correctly process the way that color and light work in photos.

    I mean, the color displayed at the very top, for instance is "gold." Because that's how black looks in bright yellow, overexposed light. So when you see that it's dark "gold" and that everything else is overexposed, you make the natural adjustment and realize "in reality, this is black." Of course, nothing is "true black" in reality; but it's as black as anything else you call black.

    The blue ... this one truly makes no sense to me, it's blue both in actual palette and in light-adjusted reality, even the photo alterations that try to "whiten" it still typically leave it a little blue.
    This is the best summary I've seen. I can totally understand that the black doesn't look black. It kind of looks like dark brown. But what drugs do you have to be on to see light blue as being white?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jinx View Post
    As a very pale person who often shows up looking blue in dim lighting
    No I'm pretty sure that's just jaundice.

    Lobster Jaundice.

    Because you're a pretty shellfish person.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blackmage_nuke View Post
    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.
    It was white and gold for me last night, but when I looked at it today, at work, on the exact same page, it was white and gold, but twenty minutes later was blue and black.

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