What color are you seeing on this dress?

[araucaria]

http://next.liberation.fr/mode/2015/...n-deux_1210777
This site’s in French but if you scroll down to the video you will find a pretty plausible explanation – in English - people's colour settings seem to be up and down the scale.

[Earth Angel]

ok there is something very strange here.......I totally ignored this story on Google's trending now story page but when i saw it here decided to check it out....partially because my daughter just bought a white and gold wedding dress yesterday!! (god I hope it doesn't turn blue and black for the wedding!!) .....anyway I saw the white and gold every time, scrolled down saw the blue and black but thought so what, different picture doesn't prove a thing......read all the stories of people going back and seeing it differently so scrolled back and now I CANNOT see the white and gold dress any more!! the first one is a paler blue and black than the second image but it is certainly not white and gold any more!!!

UPDATE

with a little effort I can move my monitor and see white and gold, but its very tricky ....where as originally it was nothing but white and gold and I could not imagine how anyone saw blue and black...seems after 300k votes its almost 50/50 on what colour it is

[Innocent Warrior]

Both dresses are consistently blue and black here.

[RunningDeer]

From a graphic and web design perspective it depends on the computer, how the photo is processed, which computer i.e, Mac or PC and how the monitor is calibrated.

I used the same photo and increased the input levels of RGB (red green blue) by only .36 out of a possible 255. I got this result.

Mac and PC monitors show up as different colors. I use a Mac to create graphics and those same graphics are different when I checked them at work on a PC. Also it depends on how old the monitor is and how each monitor is calibrated.

Photoshop has a menu for different settings to create the end color result for printing out material, i.e. CMYK vs RGB color range or upload on to web. So depends on what settings from the software on the photo, too.

[Pam]

It's wierd, when I look at the upper image in whole it is a sort of tan (or maybe a very pale muted blue) with cocoa colored lace. When I scroll down so that I can only see the bottom portion of the top image it becomes a deeper blue with black lace!

[TargeT]

Posted by Maia Gabrial (here)
When I adjusted the position of my laptop back, it became black and blue. When I adjusted it forward, it became white and gold. So, I'm seeing both. Too weird!

Any explanations?

your monitors viewing angle (in this case your laptop screen) is being exceeded and you see the other colors. (when you tilt your screen).

as for the rest of the "contraversy", wow; what a waste of time!

[guayabal]

Posted by Flash (here)

The first pic here is pale blue and gold for me, and the second royal blue and black

me too...

For those of you seeing black/blue on the first picture it would be interesting to see how you score on this color test:
http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge
I just got 0 (perfect color vision). To get a perfect score on this test you need a good and calibrated monitor (mine is a NEC calibrated using a spectrophotometer xrite i1pro)... and "excellent" color perception.

[MorningFox]

Posted by TargeT (here)

Posted by Maia Gabrial (here)
When I adjusted the position of my laptop back, it became black and blue. When I adjusted it forward, it became white and gold. So, I'm seeing both. Too weird!

Any explanations?

your monitors viewing angle (in this case your laptop screen) is being exceeded and you see the other colors. (when you tilt your screen).

as for the rest of the "contraversy", wow; what a waste of time!

That is possibly true in this case, however... Myself and others in my office saw both colour combinations at different times on the same screens.

I'm a graphic designer and we're a media company that works with digital images all day every day, so we know what we're talking about.

It's clearly a brain and perception thing.

[ghostrider]

the first is white trimmed in gold , the second is blue with black trim ... that's how I perceive it ...

[Shezbeth]

This thread does a marvelous job of illustrating the difference between objective analysis and subjective perception, if anyone is interested.

It does not do to maintain a subjective interpretation that is both unsupportable and in conflict by/with the evidence.

To me the colors in question are obvious as is the bias that is being entertained by many of the posters; one could equally point that last bit my way, but my interpretation agrees with the objective qualities,....

[Hervé]

Posted by Maia Gabrial (here)
[...]

When I adjusted the position of my laptop back, it became black and blue. When I adjusted it forward, it became white and gold. So, I'm seeing both. Too weird!

Any explanations?

... it's got to do with polarization of "white" light due to individual LCDs of an LCD screen:

A circularly polarized wave as a sum of two linearly polarized components 90° out of phase

"Liquid crystals" polarize light:

Reflective twisted nematic liquid crystal display.

1. Polarizing filter film with a vertical axis to polarize light as it enters.
2. Glass substrate with ITO electrodes. The shapes of these electrodes will determine the shapes that will appear when the LCD is turned ON. Vertical ridges etched on the surface are smooth.
3. Twisted nematic liquid crystal.
4. Glass substrate with common electrode film (ITO) with horizontal ridges to line up with the horizontal filter.
5. Polarizing filter film with a horizontal axis to block/pass light.
6. Reflective surface to send light back to viewer. (In a backlit LCD, this layer is replaced with a light source.)

Accordingly, the "light"/"color"/radiation wavelength seen as coming out of the screen is dependent on the angle to which the screen is being looked at... no more mysterious than that

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[Silo]

It is kind of amazing the kind of traction something like this gets.

What seems to be compelling about this is we all like to think we see the same world when we look out of our skulls and this SEEMS to contradict that assumption.

Maybe this particular meme is a response to how upside down the world is...as if to say, "See, this is why we can't get along. We can't even agree on what color this is...never mind coming to a consensus on complex political matters"

[Mini Flash]

There you go guys! We found the true colors!

[Mercedes]

Posted by guayabal (here)

Posted by Flash (here)

The first pic here is pale blue and gold for me, and the second royal blue and black

me too...

For those of you seeing black/blue on the first picture it would be interesting to see how you score on this color test:
http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge
I just got 0 (perfect color vision). To get a perfect score on this test you need a good and calibrated monitor (mine is a NEC calibrated using a spectrophotometer xrite i1pro)... and "excellent" color perception.

Thank you for the link I got a 0 score. The thing is I see a blue dress and both my daughters see a white one. (?)

[guayabal]

Posted by Mercedes (here)

Posted by guayabal (here)

Posted by Flash (here)

The first pic here is pale blue and gold for me, and the second royal blue and black

me too...

For those of you seeing black/blue on the first picture it would be interesting to see how you score on this color test:
http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge
I just got 0 (perfect color vision). To get a perfect score on this test you need a good and calibrated monitor (mine is a NEC calibrated using a spectrophotometer xrite i1pro)... and "excellent" color perception.

Thank you for the link I got a 0 score. The thing is I see a blue dress and both my daughters see a white one. (?)

wow... and the other color of the first pic... do you see gold or black? Thank you.

[Twig]

My take on the me media blitz given this topic. It is a psy op. And the message being given to the masses at this time is DON'T TRUST WHAT YOU SEE. This makes me wonder what is coming down the pipe.

So agree with this...

Looking at the pics of this dress that you guys posted(just for fun) I see an ugly white and brown dress OR an ugly white and gold dress....The same dress in the Black and Blue looks way nicer.

Can't believe a stupid dress can get this much media.

[Wookie]

Working as intended.

Peaceful Journeys Wookie

[OMG]

Look at this dress. What color(s) do you see?

Here's the myth...

This is a social experiment created by certain Advanced Powers/Beings with the intent of identifying the various types of people on our planet.

Based on the colors you see you fall into one of three categories...

a) You will be saved from any major end-time type tribulation on earth
b) You will NOT be saved
c) You are still an unknown and could go either way

Let the party begin!



Here's a conventional social link about the dress http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/m...ided-a-nation/

[OMG]

BTW: Although different computers and phones may affect the appearance of colors there is an easy way to see that that is NOT the issue. Just get various people to look at the dress from the same phone or computer. People will still see different colors.

[Wind]

I initially saw a white dress with golden stripes, but it took a while before the color turned. Most of the time it remains white & gold! All the devices that I use are Macs. Can you really trust your eyes? They can only see so much (that's coming from a person who sees a lot.)

OMG, quite the theory you got there. So which ones will be the lottery winners?