What is the color of this dress?

[maxtdi]

It's a tarp!

 

[GTR_Killer]

the god damn thing is blue and black...i just came in here to make this exact thread.

and that first link is wrong....thats just some little cocksickle trying to take credit and confuse people even more....its all over the place that the dress is really black and blue. some people may see the gold and white...but the dress is truly black and blue

 

[12bluemk6]

the god damn thing is blue and black...i just came in here to make this exact thread.

and that first link is wrong....thats just some little cocksickle trying to take credit and confuse people even more....its all over the place that the dress is really black and blue. some people may see the gold and white...but the dress is truly black and blue

I hope you're right because I see black and blue, although I'm always stressed which makes me even more confused. What are colors?

 

[Djmikeyd]

DAMN . Havent been here in forever. CAME HERE TO SEE A POLE, i was dissapoint

 

[Cpuga93]

26% people see gold and white 74%see blue and black

 

[12bluemk6]

26% people see gold and white 74%see blue and black

:thumbup: I still think blue and black. Even though at one point I was convinced I'm color blind

 

[Cpuga93]

Yeah same here at times I will see it gold and white and then after looking at it for a while it's blue and black. The true color is obviously blue and black but the picture just happens to be an accidental optical illusion

 

[shdwblugti]

26% people see gold and white 74%see blue and black

Let's see a picture with a model wearing the dress

 

[trev1342]

It's a light blue with gold...

 

[Cpuga93]

Light enters the eye through the lens — different wavelengths corresponding to different colors. The light hits the retina in the back of the eye where pigments fire up neural connections to the visual cortex, the part of the brain that processes those signals into an image. Critically, though, that first burst of light is made of whatever wavelengths are illuminating the world, reflecting off whatever you’re looking at. Without you having to worry about it, your brain figures out what color light is bouncing off the thing your eyes are looking at, and essentially subtracts that color from the “real” color of the object. “Our visual system is supposed to throw away information about the illuminant and extract information about the actual reflectance,” says Jay Neitz, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington. “But I’ve studied individual differences in color vision for 30 years, and this is one of the biggest individual differences I’ve ever seen.” (Neitz sees white-and-gold.)
Usually that system works just fine. This image, though, hits some kind of perceptual boundary. That might be because of how people are wired. Human beings evolved to see in daylight, but daylight changes color. That chromatic axis varies from the pinkish red of dawn, up through the blue-white of noontime, and then back down to reddish twilight. “What’s happening here is your visual system is looking at this thing, and you’re trying to discount the chromatic bias of the daylight axis,” says Bevil Conway, a neuroscientist who studies color and vision at Wellesley College. “So people either discount the blue side, in which case they end up seeing white and gold, or discount the gold side, in which case they end up with blue and black.” (Conway sees blue and orange, somehow.)

 

[trev1342]

I'm just going to play ignorant to all of this... :yikes:

 

[12bluemk6]

Light enters the eye through the lens — different wavelengths corresponding to different colors. The light hits the retina in the back of the eye where pigments fire up neural connections to the visual cortex, the part of the brain that processes those signals into an image. Critically, though, that first burst of light is made of whatever wavelengths are illuminating the world, reflecting off whatever you’re looking at. Without you having to worry about it, your brain figures out what color light is bouncing off the thing your eyes are looking at, and essentially subtracts that color from the “real” color of the object. “Our visual system is supposed to throw away information about the illuminant and extract information about the actual reflectance,” says Jay Neitz, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington. “But I’ve studied individual differences in color vision for 30 years, and this is one of the biggest individual differences I’ve ever seen.” (Neitz sees white-and-gold.)
Usually that system works just fine. This image, though, hits some kind of perceptual boundary. That might be because of how people are wired. Human beings evolved to see in daylight, but daylight changes color. That chromatic axis varies from the pinkish red of dawn, up through the blue-white of noontime, and then back down to reddish twilight. “What’s happening here is your visual system is looking at this thing, and you’re trying to discount the chromatic bias of the daylight axis,” says Bevil Conway, a neuroscientist who studies color and vision at Wellesley College. “So people either discount the blue side, in which case they end up seeing white and gold, or discount the gold side, in which case they end up with blue and black.” (Conway sees blue and orange, somehow.)

:thanks:

 

[Cpuga93]

I forgot to put quotation marks on it but yeah I found it in an article , I decided to research it since it was seriously tripping me out lol

 

[12bluemk6]

 

[razr390]

I feel like if the original question was not

"Is it white/gold or blue/black" we would have received even more interesting observations.

Since the original dress is royal blue and black the colors in the picture provided are shades of that but nowhere near royal blue or full black.