What colour is this dress? The question sweeping the world

[Yoda]

All the time I've looked at it today it's gone from Blue/Black to White/Gold back to Blue/Black then back to White/Gold.

 

[symyjym]

I've just seen the dress on tv and it is clearly black and blue. The optical illusion seems to be restricted to the light, shade and composition of the still photograph rather than a trick of the dress.

Adjust it to the correct contrast instead of bleachout mode and then you get the correct colour of the dress.

 

[Gwylan]

What I don't understand is this: if people have difficulty telling these colours apart, does this mean that an Inter Milan v Luton match would be difficult to ref?

 

[Surf's Up]

Blue and Black for me ...... But then I am colour blind so I really don't have a scooby!!!

 

[Stumpy Tim]

It was, most definitely White and Gold, but the bugger seems to have changed colour before my eyes.

That just happened to me. It changed colour after I watched the video on the Independent website. Weird

 

[Bozza]

I've just seen the dress on tv and it is clearly black and blue. The optical illusion seems to be restricted to the light, shade and composition of the still photograph rather than a trick of the dress.

Adjust it to the correct contrast instead of bleachout mode and then you get the correct colour of the dress.

That would be the case if we were all seeing white and gold.

Here there are two people looking at the same picture on the same screen at the same angle. To one it is white and gold - there is absolutely no doubt about that. To the other it is 100% blue and black. Neither can believe the other can see the colours they are claiming to. We only do believe it because of discussions like this from independent people.

 

[Gullflyinghigh]

That would be the case if we were all seeing white and gold.

Here there are two people looking at the same picture on the same screen at the same angle. To one it is white and gold - there is absolutely no doubt about that. To the other it is 100% blue and black. Neither can believe the other can see the colours they are claiming to. We only do believe it because of discussions like this from independent people.

Wait until it flips and you both start seeing the other colours instead.

Happened here to a few of us, which prompted much apologising and more than a little 'Oh, I see what you mean now!'.

Wonder how long it'll be before some enterprising individual produces a white and gold version for sale. Personally prefer the look of it, and I was seeing blue/black originally.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

On the work pc it was White and Gold (but the machine is old and slow and graphically next to useless)

Now at home and it's alternating between white and gold & blue and black every 3 seconds.

Is one the negative of the other?

 

[Bold Seagull]

It's caused a right family argument here, the wife is in a right mood now as she thinks we're all taking the mickey saying it's white and gold (she's not seen it on the internet yet). Looking at the same device, like others are reporting, we're seeing different things.

 

[Bold Seagull]

On the work pc it was White and Gold (but the machine is old and slow and graphically next to useless)

Now at home and it's alternating between white and gold & blue and black every 3 seconds.

Is one the negative of the other?

No, that's because me and Sym put up 'gif' files where somebody has done a white balance edit on the photo to create 2 photos forming the gif file.

 

[Fungus]

I've just seen the dress on tv and it is clearly black and blue. The optical illusion seems to be restricted to the light, shade and composition of the still photograph rather than a trick of the dress.

Adjust it to the correct contrast instead of bleachout mode and then you get the correct colour of the dress.

I've tweaked (to an extreme degree) a lot of digital scans of old, poorly exposed slides and negatives. Going up and down the contrast and exposure sliders has never made any colour differences as extreme as this.

I am amazed, but I don't dare ask my wife about this...

 

[Yoda]

I've just seen the dress on tv and it is clearly black and blue. The optical illusion seems to be restricted to the light, shade and composition of the still photograph rather than a trick of the dress.

Adjust it to the correct contrast instead of bleachout mode and then you get the correct colour of the dress.

But I've looked at the same image on the first post of this thread, at different times of the day, on the same pc/monitor at work, with the same contrast etc, and seen both colours combinations at different times.

 

[symyjym]

That would be the case if we were all seeing white and gold.

Here there are two people looking at the same picture on the same screen at the same angle. To one it is white and gold - there is absolutely no doubt about that. To the other it is 100% blue and black. Neither can believe the other can see the colours they are claiming to. We only do believe it because of discussions like this from independent people.

Yep, in that photo an optical illusion is created, and I can make it switch between the two, I first saw white and gold, and now it is lilac and brown,however after I saw the designer wearing the dress on the TV, it looks like a third version with a rich royal blue full black, and nothing like the ones our brains are trying to figure out in the image.

This is a good optical illusion.

If you see this lady turning clockwise, you are using your Right Brain.
If you see it counterclockwise, you are using Left Brain.

 

[Skaville]

This is a good optical illusion.

If you see this lady turning clockwise, you are using your Right Brain.
If you see it counterclockwise, you are using Left Brain.

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guffaw...I can see her nipples

 

[Seagull58]

Blue and Gold

 

[AmexRuislip]

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34% chic

 

[AmexRuislip]

 

[phoenix]

White-and-gold-ists - if you start at the bottom of page 1 of this thread and then scroll slowly upwards to the original picture of the dress, does it briefly look blue/black to you before returning to white/gold?

That's happening to me now.

It stays blue/black for a good 5 seconds, then back to white/gold.

 

[MJsGhost]

Blue and black. Anyone seeing anything else is fooking weird

 

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