What Colors Do You See?

[RKMBrown]

Exactly. It's an optical illusion having to do with how different people's brains perceive color under certain kinds of light.

Interestingly, I actually read that "night owls" are more likely to see blue and black, while people who are more used to daytime lighting see white and gold. The second group apparently interprets the lighting in the picture differently than the night people, and that causes their brain to give them an incorrect color scheme for the dress.

Well, I see it in either color depending on when I look at it. It was white and gold, and then I was reading an article about it, looked up, and it looked blue and black again. It is so strange! It just doesn't seem like lighting has anything to do with it, given how often it was changing color for me.

That's what scientists were saying, in any eventuality. :shrug:

I'm pretty sure that it has more to do with the lighting conditions present in the photo itself than where you are personally, however.

Still doesn't explain why two people sitting in the same room at the same time, looking at the same photo see it in two completely different colors. I mean, they aren't even similar colors. Sorry, I think you are wrong.

Actually... white includes blue.

Isn't it black that includes all the colors?

On a computer screen black is the absense of red green and blue.

 

[RKMBrown]

 

[Sgt_Gath]

And more specifically, this one particular photo of that dress.

It's likely that the camera screwed something up.

Still strange that two people will look at the same image in the same room at the same time and see it as different colors, don't you think? So far there has been absolutely no valid explanation for it, IMO. It must be some kind of optical illusion that is just really, really good. I have no idea how it could be done.

It's also strange that most people are seeing the dress as white and gold when it is really blue and black.

Exactly. It's an optical illusion having to do with how different people's brains perceive color under certain kinds of light.

Interestingly, I actually read that "night owls" are more likely to see blue and black, while people who are more used to daytime lighting see white and gold. The second group apparently interprets the lighting in the picture differently than the night people, and that causes their brain to give them an incorrect color scheme for the dress.

Well, I see it in either color depending on when I look at it. It was white and gold, and then I was reading an article about it, looked up, and it looked blue and black again. It is so strange! It just doesn't seem like lighting has anything to do with it, given how often it was changing color for me.

That's what scientists were saying, in any eventuality. :shrug:

I'm pretty sure that it has more to do with the lighting conditions present in the photo itself than where you are personally, however.

Still doesn't explain why two people sitting in the same room at the same time, looking at the same photo see it in two completely different colors. I mean, they aren't even similar colors. Sorry, I think you are wrong.

Well, again, because their brains are telling them two different things.

One guy's brain is saying "The light in this picture isn't right, which means the color isn't really blue, so I'm going to correct it to white instead." The other guy's brain doesn't see a problem to begin with, so it sticks with blue.

Different people are just wired differently, I guess. This photo simply serves to show it in a really obvious way. Lol

 

[RKMBrown]

I have blue eyes. I wonder if the color of my eyes has led to filtering out blue more than others who have say... brown eyes.

 

[ChrisL]

Still strange that two people will look at the same image in the same room at the same time and see it as different colors, don't you think? So far there has been absolutely no valid explanation for it, IMO. It must be some kind of optical illusion that is just really, really good. I have no idea how it could be done.

It's also strange that most people are seeing the dress as white and gold when it is really blue and black.

Exactly. It's an optical illusion having to do with how different people's brains perceive color under certain kinds of light.

Interestingly, I actually read that "night owls" are more likely to see blue and black, while people who are more used to daytime lighting see white and gold. The second group apparently interprets the lighting in the picture differently than the night people, and that causes their brain to give them an incorrect color scheme for the dress.

Well, I see it in either color depending on when I look at it. It was white and gold, and then I was reading an article about it, looked up, and it looked blue and black again. It is so strange! It just doesn't seem like lighting has anything to do with it, given how often it was changing color for me.

That's what scientists were saying, in any eventuality. :shrug:

I'm pretty sure that it has more to do with the lighting conditions present in the photo itself than where you are personally, however.

Still doesn't explain why two people sitting in the same room at the same time, looking at the same photo see it in two completely different colors. I mean, they aren't even similar colors. Sorry, I think you are wrong.

Well, again, because their brains are telling them two different things.

One guy's brain is saying "The light in this picture isn't right, which means the color isn't really blue, so I'm going to correct it to white instead." The other guy's brain doesn't see a problem to begin with, so it sticks with blue.

Different people are just wired differently, I guess. This photo simply serves to show it in a really obvious way. Lol

No! It's a devil dress, dammit!

 

[ChrisL]

I have blue eyes. I wonder if the color of my eyes has led to filtering out blue more than others who have say... brown eyes.

I have blue eyes too. I see the dress differently almost every time I look at it.

 

[ChrisL]

So I'm the only one who voted for combination? No one else sees it differently when they look at the dress? I've seen it as gold and white and black and blue. Also, once it looked almost blue and gold.

 

[Sgt_Gath]

Exactly. It's an optical illusion having to do with how different people's brains perceive color under certain kinds of light.

Interestingly, I actually read that "night owls" are more likely to see blue and black, while people who are more used to daytime lighting see white and gold. The second group apparently interprets the lighting in the picture differently than the night people, and that causes their brain to give them an incorrect color scheme for the dress.

Well, I see it in either color depending on when I look at it. It was white and gold, and then I was reading an article about it, looked up, and it looked blue and black again. It is so strange! It just doesn't seem like lighting has anything to do with it, given how often it was changing color for me.

That's what scientists were saying, in any eventuality. :shrug:

I'm pretty sure that it has more to do with the lighting conditions present in the photo itself than where you are personally, however.

Still doesn't explain why two people sitting in the same room at the same time, looking at the same photo see it in two completely different colors. I mean, they aren't even similar colors. Sorry, I think you are wrong.

Well, again, because their brains are telling them two different things.

One guy's brain is saying "The light in this picture isn't right, which means the color isn't really blue, so I'm going to correct it to white instead." The other guy's brain doesn't see a problem to begin with, so it sticks with blue.

Different people are just wired differently, I guess. This photo simply serves to show it in a really obvious way. Lol

No! It's a devil dress, dammit!

Lol. I actually found a pretty interesting video on the subject.

 

[ChrisL]

Well, I see it in either color depending on when I look at it. It was white and gold, and then I was reading an article about it, looked up, and it looked blue and black again. It is so strange! It just doesn't seem like lighting has anything to do with it, given how often it was changing color for me.

That's what scientists were saying, in any eventuality. :shrug:

I'm pretty sure that it has more to do with the lighting conditions present in the photo itself than where you are personally, however.

Still doesn't explain why two people sitting in the same room at the same time, looking at the same photo see it in two completely different colors. I mean, they aren't even similar colors. Sorry, I think you are wrong.

Well, again, because their brains are telling them two different things.

One guy's brain is saying "The light in this picture isn't right, which means the color isn't really blue, so I'm going to correct it to white instead." The other guy's brain doesn't see a problem to begin with, so it sticks with blue.

Different people are just wired differently, I guess. This photo simply serves to show it in a really obvious way. Lol

No! It's a devil dress, dammit!

Lol. I actually found a pretty interesting video on the subject.

Okay, but this doesn't explain how two people sitting next to one another see it as two completely different colors. I think these people are just trying to guess. Also, I would look at the dress one moment, and it would be black and blue and then the next moment it would be gold and white??? This just doesn't explain it, or not well enough. Two people looking at the same dress at the same time in the same room should be seeing it under the same kind of "light" because it's a picture. Instead, we see it as two completely different colors. It isn't moving in and out of the light or anything. We see it as two completely different colors though.

Yeah, I've heard this explanation several times already but it really isn't a very good explanation, IMO.

 

[Sgt_Gath]

That's what scientists were saying, in any eventuality. :shrug:

I'm pretty sure that it has more to do with the lighting conditions present in the photo itself than where you are personally, however.

Still doesn't explain why two people sitting in the same room at the same time, looking at the same photo see it in two completely different colors. I mean, they aren't even similar colors. Sorry, I think you are wrong.

Well, again, because their brains are telling them two different things.

One guy's brain is saying "The light in this picture isn't right, which means the color isn't really blue, so I'm going to correct it to white instead." The other guy's brain doesn't see a problem to begin with, so it sticks with blue.

Different people are just wired differently, I guess. This photo simply serves to show it in a really obvious way. Lol

No! It's a devil dress, dammit!

Lol. I actually found a pretty interesting video on the subject.

Okay, but this doesn't explain how two people sitting next to one another see it as two completely different colors. I think these people are just trying to guess. Also, I would look at the dress one moment, and it would be black and blue and then the next moment it would be gold and white??? This just doesn't explain it, or not well enough. Two people looking at the same dress at the same time in the same room should be seeing it under the same kind of "light" because it's a picture. Instead, we see it as two completely different colors. It isn't moving in and out of the light or anything. We see it as two completely different colors though.

Yeah, I've heard this explanation several times already but it really isn't a very good explanation, IMO.

That's the thing though, it's not the light in the room that usually confuses people. It's the light in the picture itself.

People interpret that light differently, so they see different things.

Some people's brains just can't make up their minds on it one way or the other, so it goes back and forth. :shrug:

 

[RKMBrown]

That's what scientists were saying, in any eventuality. :shrug:

I'm pretty sure that it has more to do with the lighting conditions present in the photo itself than where you are personally, however.

Still doesn't explain why two people sitting in the same room at the same time, looking at the same photo see it in two completely different colors. I mean, they aren't even similar colors. Sorry, I think you are wrong.

Well, again, because their brains are telling them two different things.

One guy's brain is saying "The light in this picture isn't right, which means the color isn't really blue, so I'm going to correct it to white instead." The other guy's brain doesn't see a problem to begin with, so it sticks with blue.

Different people are just wired differently, I guess. This photo simply serves to show it in a really obvious way. Lol

No! It's a devil dress, dammit!

Lol. I actually found a pretty interesting video on the subject.

Okay, but this doesn't explain how two people sitting next to one another see it as two completely different colors. I think these people are just trying to guess. Also, I would look at the dress one moment, and it would be black and blue and then the next moment it would be gold and white??? This just doesn't explain it, or not well enough. Two people looking at the same dress at the same time in the same room should be seeing it under the same kind of "light" because it's a picture. Instead, we see it as two completely different colors. It isn't moving in and out of the light or anything. We see it as two completely different colors though.

Yeah, I've heard this explanation several times already but it really isn't a very good explanation, IMO.

Person 1 with brain 1 and set of eyes 1 looks at image. Person 2 with brain 2 and set of eyes 2 looks at image. Brain 1 processes image and sees white and gold. Brain 2 processes image and sees blue and black.

Brain 1 and brain 2 are both correct.

The blueish pixels in the image are washed out. The bluish pixels in the image also include a level of red and a level of green. The red and green in the pixels washes out the blue forming white. An equal amount of red blue and green is white on a computer screen. The difference between red blue and green is subtle in some versions of this picture. The person that took the picture took it with a bright light behind the dress. This washes out the pixels for the dress, making the emphasis on blue in the dress washed out.

Brain 1 correctly identifies the dress as white because they are being shown as only very slightly blue.
Brain 2 correctly identifies the blue in the dress by focusing in on the subtle blue shown in the dress.

 

[ChrisL]

Still doesn't explain why two people sitting in the same room at the same time, looking at the same photo see it in two completely different colors. I mean, they aren't even similar colors. Sorry, I think you are wrong.

Well, again, because their brains are telling them two different things.

One guy's brain is saying "The light in this picture isn't right, which means the color isn't really blue, so I'm going to correct it to white instead." The other guy's brain doesn't see a problem to begin with, so it sticks with blue.

Different people are just wired differently, I guess. This photo simply serves to show it in a really obvious way. Lol

No! It's a devil dress, dammit!

Lol. I actually found a pretty interesting video on the subject.

Okay, but this doesn't explain how two people sitting next to one another see it as two completely different colors. I think these people are just trying to guess. Also, I would look at the dress one moment, and it would be black and blue and then the next moment it would be gold and white??? This just doesn't explain it, or not well enough. Two people looking at the same dress at the same time in the same room should be seeing it under the same kind of "light" because it's a picture. Instead, we see it as two completely different colors. It isn't moving in and out of the light or anything. We see it as two completely different colors though.

Yeah, I've heard this explanation several times already but it really isn't a very good explanation, IMO.

Person 1 with brain 1 and set of eyes 1 looks at image. Person 2 with brain 2 and set of eyes 2 looks at image. Brain 1 processes image and sees white and gold. Brain 2 processes image and sees blue and black.

Brain 1 and brain 2 are both correct.

The blueish pixels in the image are washed out. The bluish pixels in the image also include a level of red and a level of green. The red and green in the pixels washes out the blue forming white. An equal amount of red blue and green is white on a computer screen. The difference between red blue and green is subtle in some versions of this picture. The person that took the picture took it with a bright light behind the dress. This washes out the pixels for the dress, making the emphasis on blue in the dress washed out.

Brain 1 correctly identifies the dress as white because they are being shown as only very slightly blue.
Brain 2 correctly identifies the blue in the dress by focusing in on the subtle blue shown in the dress.

Well, why do I see it differently almost every time I look at it?

 

[ChrisL]

Still doesn't explain why two people sitting in the same room at the same time, looking at the same photo see it in two completely different colors. I mean, they aren't even similar colors. Sorry, I think you are wrong.

Well, again, because their brains are telling them two different things.

One guy's brain is saying "The light in this picture isn't right, which means the color isn't really blue, so I'm going to correct it to white instead." The other guy's brain doesn't see a problem to begin with, so it sticks with blue.

Different people are just wired differently, I guess. This photo simply serves to show it in a really obvious way. Lol

No! It's a devil dress, dammit!

Lol. I actually found a pretty interesting video on the subject.

Okay, but this doesn't explain how two people sitting next to one another see it as two completely different colors. I think these people are just trying to guess. Also, I would look at the dress one moment, and it would be black and blue and then the next moment it would be gold and white??? This just doesn't explain it, or not well enough. Two people looking at the same dress at the same time in the same room should be seeing it under the same kind of "light" because it's a picture. Instead, we see it as two completely different colors. It isn't moving in and out of the light or anything. We see it as two completely different colors though.

Yeah, I've heard this explanation several times already but it really isn't a very good explanation, IMO.

That's the thing though, it's not the light in the room that usually confuses people. It's the light in the picture itself.

People interpret that light differently, so they see different things.

Some people's brains just can't make up their minds on it one way or the other, so it goes back and forth. :shrug:

Well *shrug* why doesn't this happen all the time? I look at pictures of dresses in magazines and online with my friends all the time. We talk about the dresses, things like "oh, I really like the cute pink dress," etc. This has never happened before to me.

 

[skye]

I see the color of stupidity!

I mean .....I have never heard of anything more idiotic than this!

 

[HUGGY]

This dress is tearing the internet apart and we can't explain it (yet)

Some people look at it and see white and gold, other people see the same image as blue and black (or brown), and yet other people look at it and see blue and black one moment but white and gold the next.

Why do different people insist they see white and gold, black and blue, or even both depending on when they look? One potential answer is that color is a lie, as this tweet from Kathryn Long, a tech artist at video game development studio Bioware, shows:

Well, what do all of you see?

Personally, I see blue and very dark brown/grayish black.

You are an idiot. That's what I see. My internet is completely intact. Maybe YOU think about "dresses" too much. That is unless you want to wear one like Giuliani. And there is nothing wrong with that in our modern world. Does it mean you are gay? Or a queer? A fag? A pillow biting cum guzzler? Maybe.

 

[Sgt_Gath]

This dress is tearing the internet apart and we can't explain it (yet)

Some people look at it and see white and gold, other people see the same image as blue and black (or brown), and yet other people look at it and see blue and black one moment but white and gold the next.

Why do different people insist they see white and gold, black and blue, or even both depending on when they look? One potential answer is that color is a lie, as this tweet from Kathryn Long, a tech artist at video game development studio Bioware, shows:

Well, what do all of you see?

Personally, I see blue and very dark brown/grayish black.

You are an idiot. That's what I see. My internet is completely intact. Maybe YOU think about "dresses" too much. That is unless you want to wear one like Giuliani. And there is nothing wrong with that in our modern world. Does it mean you are gay? Or a queer? A fag? A pillow biting cum guzzler? Maybe.

Well, fuck you too, I guess. :shrug:

 

[Mineva]

Blue and Brown

 

[RKMBrown]

Well, again, because their brains are telling them two different things.

One guy's brain is saying "The light in this picture isn't right, which means the color isn't really blue, so I'm going to correct it to white instead." The other guy's brain doesn't see a problem to begin with, so it sticks with blue.

Different people are just wired differently, I guess. This photo simply serves to show it in a really obvious way. Lol

No! It's a devil dress, dammit!

Lol. I actually found a pretty interesting video on the subject.

Okay, but this doesn't explain how two people sitting next to one another see it as two completely different colors. I think these people are just trying to guess. Also, I would look at the dress one moment, and it would be black and blue and then the next moment it would be gold and white??? This just doesn't explain it, or not well enough. Two people looking at the same dress at the same time in the same room should be seeing it under the same kind of "light" because it's a picture. Instead, we see it as two completely different colors. It isn't moving in and out of the light or anything. We see it as two completely different colors though.

Yeah, I've heard this explanation several times already but it really isn't a very good explanation, IMO.

Person 1 with brain 1 and set of eyes 1 looks at image. Person 2 with brain 2 and set of eyes 2 looks at image. Brain 1 processes image and sees white and gold. Brain 2 processes image and sees blue and black.

Brain 1 and brain 2 are both correct.

The blueish pixels in the image are washed out. The bluish pixels in the image also include a level of red and a level of green. The red and green in the pixels washes out the blue forming white. An equal amount of red blue and green is white on a computer screen. The difference between red blue and green is subtle in some versions of this picture. The person that took the picture took it with a bright light behind the dress. This washes out the pixels for the dress, making the emphasis on blue in the dress washed out.

Brain 1 correctly identifies the dress as white because they are being shown as only very slightly blue.
Brain 2 correctly identifies the blue in the dress by focusing in on the subtle blue shown in the dress.

Well, why do I see it differently almost every time I look at it?

Perspective bias.

It's the same issue with this box. Which square is in front the bottom right one or the top left one. Your brain can easily make it work either way.

They are both correct. You get to decide which you want to believe. The best answer is both. Thus with the dress white / gold is just as correct as blue / black. Why? Because the guy who took the photo washed it out so much so as to make it hard to tell.

Sort of like how the above box is washed out... Now if you add more detail to the above box you can fix it...

 

[HUGGY]

This dress is tearing the internet apart and we can't explain it (yet)

Some people look at it and see white and gold, other people see the same image as blue and black (or brown), and yet other people look at it and see blue and black one moment but white and gold the next.

Why do different people insist they see white and gold, black and blue, or even both depending on when they look? One potential answer is that color is a lie, as this tweet from Kathryn Long, a tech artist at video game development studio Bioware, shows:

Well, what do all of you see?

Personally, I see blue and very dark brown/grayish black.

You are an idiot. That's what I see. My internet is completely intact. Maybe YOU think about "dresses" too much. That is unless you want to wear one like Giuliani. And there is nothing wrong with that in our modern world. Does it mean you are gay? Or a queer? A fag? A pillow biting cum guzzler? Maybe.

Well, fuck you too, I guess. :shrug:

Whoa there Hoss. I'm just messin with you. Or am I?????

 

[ChrisL]

This dress is tearing the internet apart and we can't explain it (yet)

Some people look at it and see white and gold, other people see the same image as blue and black (or brown), and yet other people look at it and see blue and black one moment but white and gold the next.

Why do different people insist they see white and gold, black and blue, or even both depending on when they look? One potential answer is that color is a lie, as this tweet from Kathryn Long, a tech artist at video game development studio Bioware, shows:

Well, what do all of you see?

Personally, I see blue and very dark brown/grayish black.

You are an idiot. That's what I see. My internet is completely intact. Maybe YOU think about "dresses" too much. That is unless you want to wear one like Giuliani. And there is nothing wrong with that in our modern world. Does it mean you are gay? Or a queer? A fag? A pillow biting cum guzzler? Maybe.

Well, that was totally uncalled for. It's an interesting thread and the phenomena is certainly interesting that people are seeing this one dress in all different colors to some of us. If you don't care, then you don't have to post here or read about it, or you can, but there is no need to be a jerk about it.