Oh hey, I just listened to a thing about this!
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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.
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
I see a black/blue on the right and a dusty black/blue on the left.
I still have never been able to see white and gold
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
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.
There's a great video on how effects like these work.
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.
What about in the left in OP?
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.
What's that to you:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/The_dress_blueblackwhitegold.jpg
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.
"they're the same picture"
My name is not ‘Data,’ it’s ’Data.’
One is my name. The other is not.
it’s pronounced “gif”
And mana is mana, not mana.
Yeah! With a “g” sound. Like “Ginger” and “Garfield”.
It is pronounced gif and I'm tired of pretending it's not.
I'm guessing the dude on the right is a Voss, but what's the one on the left? Just really pale?
Definitely not colourful enough for a Voss
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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.
