• wetsoggybread@lemmy.world
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    I never really thought much of it just a ‘huh, it looks white ans gold to me’ then i realized ive had a blue light filter on my computer and phone for a long time and its heavily skewed into red. Turns out turning that off helped me see it as blue and black. Who knew

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    This picture made me feel incredibly weird. I see blue and brownish - we can call it gold. Like, I see the same colors you’ll see if you do an average color extraction over the image using an image processor. There’s no color illusion for me at all. The whole world went mad in two camps and I’m in neither.

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      You’re in the blue and black camp. I get what you mean, it’s sort of a yellowish brown, but that’s why the illusion is there in the first place. Some people’s brains adjust it to a more yellow color instead of more of a black/dark brown.

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        I appreciate your answer. But aren’t you just in my camp, maybe? If some people in the blue/black camp see a yellowish brown, why do they call it black? And why do they insist it’s the only way the image could be interpreted?

        What struck me about the whole thing was how people seemingly could not fathom how the colors could be seen as anything other than what they personally saw/interpreted. Were some of them exaggerating, do you think?

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        Same. Hated it at the time because “but is clearly black and blue” with me just getting upset because it doesn’t matter what it objectively is, I’m being asked what I’m seeing and it’s only white and gold for me. And still is.

        I dreamed of throwing all those dresses into the sun

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      its because the background gives the impression of bright yellow incandescent lighting but in order to see the dress as white gold you have to assume it’s under entirely different (low diffuse white) lighting conditions than the rest of the image implies

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        Isn’t it because your brain assumes the dress is in the shadow and only lit by the ambient light from the sky. Hence why the brain color corrects the blue to white since ambient light from the sky is slightly blue.

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          Yeah you’d have to perceive it as being lit from sunlight under shade, cloud cover, or possibly a skylight. I doubt it has much to do with an intuitive understanding of rayleigh scattering and more just that, in person, your brain would have more temporal context and a wider visual field to model the lighting with than what the image gives you. The floor and the ceiling would be blue in your peripheral and you’d have more angles and depth perception to work with so the distance between and relative strength of the yellow light and white light source would be more obvious.

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      I can only see the white/gold when it’s color-corrected like this, and I think some people just have some form of auto-exposure correction in their minds. If I remember correctly, the original photo is the one on the right.

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      One day we’re going to figure out why and all other forms of prejudice will cease to exist and be replaced with the one true differentiator of human quality.

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      At the top of the left one I could definitely see why people would think the black part is gold due to the lighting and exposure. I’ve never been able to grasp how people see white though, for me it’s like saying a bluebird sky is white.

      Edit: the wiki article on this is amazing

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        Thanks. Simply by looking at this image from the wiki, I was able to finally see it in blue and black. Once I focused on the color of the illumination, I was able to start seeing it correctly. And then I can switch back to seeing it in white and gold by zooming in completely on the black/gold section for a second.

        The image actually explains how people see white as well. Both the white and blue sections inside of the colored squares are the exact same color.

        The picture (the one in the OP, not the one I linked) has always been super weird to me, because if you invert the colors of the dress then it IS gold/white. Meaning the white/gold dress (in my eyes) would become gold/white when inverted, which made absolutely zero sense lol.

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          And I don’t see how it could be blue and black…

          Well, ok, that’s not entirely true, I can see how in GIMP:

          The colors are basically exactly in between white/gold and blue/black respectively.

          And I can see a very, very faint blue tint on the white, just as it “should be”, according to GIMP. But it doesn’t click to another color entirely for me, especially not pitch black and dark blue.

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            It doesn’t look like dark blue. Which is interesting-- the color it appears to be is about as far from dark blue as it is from white. But, correcting for the harsh glare, it’s blue (as we now know it really is).

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              Oh, I assumed dark blue and pitch black because of the image in the post.

              And it’s debatable wherever that can be considered blue or gold. Both are objectively very faint/light, apparently.

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                The image on the right is a recreation of what it would have looked like if the lighting wasn’t the way it was.

                Here’s an actual image of the real colors.

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    Oh hey, I just listened to a thing about this!

    What we can learn about perception, priors, and truth itself from the party dress that sparked a global debate over the nature of reality

    Tap for spoiler

    tl;dl

    People who get up early tend to see the dress as white and gold, because their mind is used to resolving ambiguous colors using the context of early morning lighting.

    People who stay up late tend to see it as blue and black (the true colors), because their mind is used to resolving ambiguous colors in the context of evening indoor lighting.

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        especially because they view getting up early as some sort of badge of honor, while everyone who dares to follow their own natural circadian rhythm is some lazy good-for-nothing. You’re not special for sleeping during a a different time of the day, get over yourself.

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          My gripe is that night owls are supposed to be quiet so we don’t disturb the morning larks’ slumber, but larks can be as loud as they want in the morning cuz they gotta wake themselves up, and they got places to be, and also fuck you for being so selfish sleeping in past 7:00.

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          They really are just sooooo full of themselves, some of them. Not all of course, but especially when you get them in a work environment they act like their way is the only way. Which is especially funny since that damages the learning ability of kids. 9-5 tends to force 730-2, give or take, school schedules, and children are especially susceptible to harm from waking up that early. To this day the earliest I have ever woken up consistently was grade school. And I was always tardy…and even then they would give out like dumb prizes and shit for people who showed up “on time” consistently.

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    Stg i saw gold/white on left first, then after looking at the right one for a bit it just switched to the classic blue/black ive always seen. I hate this picture so damm much

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    I’m guessing the dude on the right is a Voss, but what’s the one on the left? Just really pale?

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    The dress on the left has put in amazing service over the years, and even it’s getting a bit threadbare it can be a nice part of the right ensemble. The one on the right seems great in drawings and text descriptions, but just sorta hangs there limply once it’s actually delivered.