Blue and Black dress.. or White and Gold?? What do you see?

[NataliaBijoux]

This has been all over the internet today!

In short, some people see a dress that is blue and black, some see a dress that is white and gold, and some see one combination and later see another. According to one poll on Buzzfeed, 74% see white and gold.

So we put the dress to Photoshop, a program that should not be susceptible to variations in genetics or eye strength, to see what it sees.

Here are the results and they are fascinating. Basically, one of the colors falls on the black/gold border and the other falls on the blue/white border.

At this point it appears to be just how your eyes adjust to the mix of colors. If your eyes are more sensitive to blue and black, that's what you see, if they are more sensitive to the lighter colors, that is what you see.

http://www.businessinsider.com/dress-white-gold-black-blue-photoshop-2015-2

 

[sybian]

In the first picture I see white and gold...I see the same thing in the second picture.
In the third and last picture, I see a white tank top pulled perfectly between two ample and well proportioned breasts, against golden skin....With perfect darker nipples ,set on a pair of perfectly tanned double D's...Set on a very nice slim ,arched torso...I think I prefer the third picture.
Does anyone else see something different ?

 

[diamondd5243]

In the first picture I see white and gold...I see the same thing in the second picture.
In the third and last picture, I see a white tank top pulled perfectly between two ample and well proportioned breasts, against golden skin....With perfect darker nipples ,set on a pair of perfectly tanned double D's...Set on a very nice slim ,arched torso...I think I prefer the third picture.
Does anyone else see something different ?

What dress? ;-)

 

[Caramel]

omg i just went crazy abt this in the last hour even asked a client nd he saw white gold, at first i saw blue black but then saw white after for a few seconds and went crazy for a bit and gave up...still cant really find a good answer as to why, lots of theories though (sorry for shitty typing im using a flat laptop keyboard and its extremely tedious my comp is getting fixed)

people are literally sitting in the same environment in the same lighting, staring at the same pic over and over and are seeing different colours...what is going on! I sort of get why colors may change because of lighting changes, but its still creepy...i didnt care until i saw the other color combo ...i also read that some of the photoshop users who were seeing the white tried to experiment with it on photoshop and got confused. at first i thought it was a lie, and that the opposite colours were a big lie lol, then i saw the other color with my own eyes and thought it was a trick or prank, hehe

 

[Man Mountain]

I think I see Silver, Blue and Gold

 

[carvesg]

This morning before leaving home I saw that segment on TV "global news" talking about that dress and saw the dress blue and black which is the colour of the dress . They even showed the dress as advertised blue and black where the dress was purchased at a retailer in Singapore or Hong Kong.

But now it looks white and gold on my computer. Funny !

 

[Horn_dawg]

I see gold and blue. What does that mean?

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Originally it was white and gold for me. Now I see it as blue and black. It looked better as white and gold.

 

[Lady Companion]

I see it as both also......and then some.

I think it is a good reminder that 'reality' for each of us is simply how our filters are adjusted. Each person has their own version of 'truth' and 'reality', and even that is not stable.

The mind is finite, and seeks to reduce the infinite Universe/Multi-verse into something manageable.

Putting a label on anything negates it. Yet we live in a world of duality, and world of perceived limitations which requires such a reduction of the whole to comprehend with our mind.

We choose to reduce it to a dress. We choose to reduce it to a few simple colours, because comprehending that it is simultaneously everything and nothing - and that we as the observer are creating it's box to exist in our reality is a bit of a mind f***.

The eyes only see what the mind is willing to believe.

 

[*emmanuelle]

I think that the people saying "who gives a shit" think that everyone is seeing pretty much the same thing, and that the whole disagreement is about the names of the colours. As in, 'you're calling that light blue? I'm calling it blue-ish white!" If that was what people were arguing about, I would definitely say 'who cares' too, but that's not what it is.

The first time I looked at it, I was like "okay, it's a white and gold dress, but I guess I can see how some people would call it blue and black, whatever. 15 minutes later I opened the picture again and it was a COMPLETELY different looking dress. Dark blue and solid black. I couldn't make it go back to white and gold no matter how hard I tried.

I had no idea this kind of phenomenon could exist with colours, and it's really interesting to read the explanations that neuroscientists are giving. I don't think it's trivial at all. People are like "it's just a dress!", but it's so much more than that! It's physics, it's biology, it's psychology. It's a great chance to learn something new about the human mind and the world around us. If you don't think that's interesting, I think you're weird!!

"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.” 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.”

I'm sorry but that is super fascinating!!

 

[greatgreeker]

my advice is to take some good lsd or mushrooms and it will look really good regardless of what colours you see, hear, feel, or taste.

 

[sybian]

Now on the bottom of your post Emanuelle....I see a pink ,white, and blue dress....Clinging on a VERY nice body, just the way I like it too.....
Is everyone else seeing those colours, or am I just Cowboy colour blind?
You see, I once rode a bull named "Blue Bill"....He was freaking pale white !!

 

[NataliaBijoux]

What dress? ;-)

Aren't you two just charming! :clap2:
I don't know how to 'multi quote'
This includes you too cowboy!

 

[sybian]

Well.....I am known for my charm...and my size 13 feet. I also am known for calling it as I see it.
You do the math good looking.

 

[Larry Storch]

Aren't you two just charming! :clap2:
I don't know how to 'multi quote'
This includes you too cowboy!

Just click the "Reply With Quote".
Select and copy text.
Go back to thread and click the next "Reply With Quote" you want to use.
Paste what you copied above the new 'Quote'.
Select all and copy.
Go back to thread and click the next "Reply With Quote" you want to use.
Paste what you copied above the new 'Quote'.
Repeat as desired.

 

[NataliaBijoux]

Just click the "Reply With Quote".
Select and copy text.
Go back to thread and click the next "Reply With Quote" you want to use.
Paste what you copied above the new 'Quote'.
Select all and copy.
Go back to thread and click the next "Reply With Quote" you want to use.
Paste what you copied above the new 'Quote'.
Repeat as desired.

Great!
Thank you so much!

 

[Larry Storch]

:thumb:

 

[escapefromstress]

I don't know how to 'multi quote'

Just click the "Reply With Quote".
Select and copy text.
Go back to thread and click the next "Reply With Quote" you want to use.
Paste what you copied above the new 'Quote'.
Select all and copy.
Go back to thread and click the next "Reply With Quote" you want to use.
Paste what you copied above the new 'Quote'.
Repeat as desired.

Easier method:

The little button with the 'plus sign', to the right of the 'Reply with Quote' button, is what you use to multi-quote. Just click it on all the posts you want to quote and use 'Reply with Quote' on the last one.

 

[escapefromstress]

Easier method:

The little button with the 'plus sign', to the right of the 'Reply with Quote' button, is what you use to multi-quote. Just click it on all the posts you want to quote and use 'Reply with Quote' on the last one.

or even better to the side of the reply with Quote is a little speak box with a quotation sign in it. If you hover your mouse over it for just a sec it says " Multi Quote this message" you right click on it and it puts a check mark on the side.. Then after you've made all your multi quote selections you hit one of the many reply with quote (last one you did) and Poof Wallah!.. everything is multi quoted..

I'm having deja vu all over again.