Originally Posted by
Spuuky
If you sufficiently cropped it such that it didn't have any indication about the lighting of the original photo? Umm, I guess if you zoomed way in on a specific portion such that you lose any sense of context, yes, it could be hard to tell what color it was in reality.
Tell me what word this is, if it wasn't cut off:
nderstandable
If you come up with an answer other than the obvious one, there's something wrong with the linguistic center of your brain.
Now tell me what word this is:
s
That's the same word, but with more cut out. See how that's a stupid question?
The dress, in this analogy, is something like this:
nderstandab
It's clearly discernable unless your eyes and brain just can't reconcile things correctly for some reason. A white-and-gold viewer would say "this isn't a word." A blue-and-gold viewer would say "the first example isn't a word." A blue-and-black viewer would say "the word is 'understandable' in both cases."