This pic makes my brain go "AHHHHHHHHHHHHh"
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Human vision is an illusion. It’s mostly inferred, and not representative of how the world actually looks, and I think that’s pretty cool and profound.
Please explain how the world actually looks
I don't think there's an objective answer to that
This actually helped me.
Oh come on, not this again
Historians are gonna really wonder why so many people talked about this
I mean it is a legit philosophical argument. One of my mother's friends, whom I respect very much, told me she saw gold and white. So there is some merit to the conversation.
whom I used to respect very much
FTFY
I shit you not. When I first saw it, my eyeballs were probably primed for daylight and I saw white and yellow. Ever subsequent time I saw black and blue. Reality is subjective.
I have always seen gold and white and still can't see black and blue.
I hear Yani
Definitely green needle
I don't even understand the point of this. I see a black dress with a blue apron and a yellow dress with a white apron. Is that wrong?
Turn your phone horizontal (with locked orientation), now put one finger from your left hand and one finger from your right hand to the areas above outside the boxes.
Voilà! The boxed areas are the same.
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The blue and the yellow are the same color (cover up the rest of the picture, there is no gradient in the bar). Same thing for the white and the blue, isn't that strange?
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I had to copy the image in Paint and select the colors to believe they were the same. Goddamned witchcraft, I say!
The one that always gets me is the light/dark image that has the same grey in two places, and on one side it looks like darkness and on the other like light.
Basically, these: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=grey+illusion+light+dark&ia=images&iax=images
Paint is compromised, they are in on it!
Goddam! Thank you!
That kind of explains the gold or black dress!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress
I can for the life of me only see it as white and gold, and I have really struggled trying to understand how others can see it as blue and black? I bet the picture you show here is a result of the research the picture of the dress initiated. It can't be a coincidence that the illusion you posted also is made with dresses.
when I clicker the link I saw it as black and blue for a split second but all I see now is golden and white 😭😭😭😭
Huh, I checked the talk page out, turns out the guy behind the picture was jailed for trying to kill his wife.
It's such a strange thing. For most of the illusions I can trick my brain to perceive both variants. This one is clearly black and blue. I can see that the black parts isolated can appear golden in the light, but for the life of me I can't see it any other than blue. Brains are weird.
I wonder how much of this depended on the differences in device screens. In 2015 there was a lot more variability in display technology, lower resolutions in general and worse color fidelity. OLED was uncommon and expensive, you probably only had an IPS display if you worked in graphic arts, and a lot of people were still using standard LCD monitors backlit with fluorescent tubes, which meant that the black depth was limited and the detail in dark regions of an image was frequently not visible on the screen.
I remember showing a woman at work it, from my phone. She saw it as the opposite to me and another coworker. Me and the other coworker were stunned.
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The dress was revealed to be, in fact, blue and black.
On 28 February 2015, Roman Originals announced that they would make a single white and gold dress for a Comic Relief charity auction.[31]
Oh man, MAJOR missed opportunity there! They sold out of the blue and black ones like overnight, they should have fast-tracked a white and gold version production to hit the shelves ASAP and enjoyed the flood of purchases.
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To my brain, it could only be white & gold (in reality I mean) if it was in drastic shadow. I iust imagine it not in drastic shadow and it looks blue & black.
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Or maybe remove the blue and yellow pieces of glass in front of them?
I don't get it. Are they suppose to look similar with the filters applied? I see both dresses underneath the filter, very clearly. On the left is the same black and blue dress with a yellow filter effect, on the right is a yellow and white dress with a very clear blue filter on top.
Yeah, don't worry, you're supposed to be able to see they're different.
The majority of the image being grey is gives your brain the right context required to perceive each half is being tinted, so the perceived white balance isn't shifted around like in the original "the dress" meme.
This is more of a teardown of the "original" illusion than a demonstration.
Looking at the bridge, it becomes clear that even though you can see in the wider context that the dresses are separate colours - when compared directly under skewed/tinted white balance they become indistinguishable.
Meaning that in the original "the dress" meme, how you perceived the dress' colour depended greatly on how you perceived the tint/white balance in the surrounding areas of the photo (or how it was displayed on your device).
Adding a bit more context, the bridge doesn't just show they are indistinguishable, it shows they are the exact same color.
If you put a color picker on each dress, you'll get the exact same RGB value.
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The point is that a black-and-blue dress, when brightly lit, will look eerily similar to a white-and-gold dress, when it's in shade.
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