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Title: What color is this dress?
Post by: jonathanyu on Fri, 27 February 2015, 20:40:39: (http://41.media.tumblr.com/a391a1b4b46dd6b498d379e50f96ecbc/tumblr_nkcjuq8Tdr1tnacy1o1_1280.jpg)

What color do you see?
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Post by: PunksDead on Fri, 27 February 2015, 20:42:44: pink
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Post by: SpAmRaY on Fri, 27 February 2015, 20:43:19: i have yet to see anything other than blue and black
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Post by: sleepy916 on Fri, 27 February 2015, 20:45:49: White and gold only for me, the jacket is white too so I'm guessing it was made to match. But what do I know about fashion? 😓
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Post by: vindaon on Fri, 27 February 2015, 20:47:02: Charcoal black and ash gray after I burn the damn thing.
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Post by: demik on Fri, 27 February 2015, 20:48:25: it's potato
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Post by: hwood34 on Fri, 27 February 2015, 20:48:46: goddamnit, not here too
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Post by: tjcaustin on Fri, 27 February 2015, 20:50:35: "Isn't wave physics CUHRAZY?!"

It's black and blue. It's overexposed like a mothertrucker.
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Post by: paicrai on Fri, 27 February 2015, 20:52:55: can we re-purpose this thread for yaoi anatomy
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Post by: fknraiden on Fri, 27 February 2015, 20:53:55: i feel like this was edited, i remember seeing that post on reddit yesterday and i didnt see how anyone could see white and gold. but just opening this i sort of saw it for a second.
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Post by: Novus on Fri, 27 February 2015, 21:04:17: Depends on who's wearing it
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Post by: Coreda on Fri, 27 February 2015, 21:05:36: You've started the apocalypse. Just sayin'

It's a blue and black dress, light blue and brown in the photo due to overexposure and crappy color balance, and white and gold to weirdos :p
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Post by: fanpeople on Fri, 27 February 2015, 21:07:16: This is now a who's that Pokemon thread

Who's that Pokemon

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Post by: tp4tissue on Fri, 27 February 2015, 21:07:30: It's Algae colored.
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Post by: C5Allroad on Fri, 27 February 2015, 21:41:02: (http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15/02/27/3bc6a1636dfdde99dfa12593b28788a4.jpg)
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Post by: noisyturtle on Fri, 27 February 2015, 22:00:59: The actual dress is black and blue, the photo shown has been modified to weird out your rods and cones.
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Post by: Melvang on Fri, 27 February 2015, 22:18:52: Quote from: noisyturtle on Fri, 27 February 2015, 22:00:59
The actual dress is black and blue, the photo shown has been modified to weird out your rods and cones.

From what I have read from legit sites, the image is seen as gold and a very light blue. The dress in real life has never been made in anything but blue and black. From what I have read it was a lighting trick combined with possible cropping.
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Post by: Flyersfan1 on Fri, 27 February 2015, 22:20:51: I love how the marketing departments for various companies have been taking full advantage of this.

http://i.imgur.com/UHlnI3t.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/UHlnI3t.jpg)
https://twitter.com/PlayStationAU/status/571176841777516544 (https://twitter.com/PlayStationAU/status/571176841777516544)
http://twitter.com/Xbox/status/571133738484178944/photo/1 (http://twitter.com/Xbox/status/571133738484178944/photo/1)
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Post by: noisyturtle on Fri, 27 February 2015, 22:30:31: (http://i.imgur.com/qShH5re.gif)
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Post by: Flyersfan1 on Fri, 27 February 2015, 22:31:12: Quote from: noisyturtle on Fri, 27 February 2015, 22:30:31
Show Image
(http://i.imgur.com/qShH5re.gif)

Haha, such a great scene from Airplane...I love reddit sometimes..
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Post by: dustinhxc on Sat, 28 February 2015, 02:11:02: Quote from: noisyturtle on Fri, 27 February 2015, 22:30:31
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(http://i.imgur.com/qShH5re.gif)

ahahahha ^-^ :))
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Post by: bueller on Sat, 28 February 2015, 02:12:37: Here I was thinking GH was my last sanctuary from this damned dress. Nope.
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Post by: Nai_Calus on Sat, 28 February 2015, 10:19:13: Not here too.

It's blue and black. Period. I didn't even know what two groups of colours you were supposed to see when I first saw it, and I was like '...Why is this a question, it's blue and black, what.'
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Post by: rowdy on Sat, 28 February 2015, 18:43:54: Oh no, GH, not you too!
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Post by: Findecanor on Sat, 28 February 2015, 18:56:59: It is coloured like yesterday's XKCD.
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Post by: baldgye on Sun, 01 March 2015, 02:44:13: Quote from: fanpeople on Fri, 27 February 2015, 21:07:16
This is now a who's that Pokemon thread

Who's that Pokemon

(Attachment Link)

Charmander.
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Post by: Vibex on Sun, 01 March 2015, 02:54:49: Quote from: HUNTERANGEL121 on Fri, 27 February 2015, 21:41:02
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(http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15/02/27/3bc6a1636dfdde99dfa12593b28788a4.jpg)

I can't see the white and gold even on the left most picture.

Quote from: fanpeople on Fri, 27 February 2015, 21:07:16
This is now a who's that Pokemon thread

Who's that Pokemon

(Attachment Link)
Ditto
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Post by: vivalarevolución on Sun, 01 March 2015, 07:21:36: I am no longer visiting Facebook because of that dress. Not like that's the only reason, but it was the final straw.
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Post by: TheSoulhunter on Sun, 01 March 2015, 09:15:00: Without correcting the white-balance, blueish gray and reddish black :P
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Post by: foxer on Sun, 01 March 2015, 13:55:16: (https://scontent-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10994642_10153646724824638_6714448685517972228_n.jpg?oh=c3e9fa738e873c3abd0a80b1b51ea042&oe=558AA7FB)
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Post by: iri on Sun, 01 March 2015, 13:59:16: i banned everyone who posted in this thread.
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Post by: Vibex on Sun, 01 March 2015, 14:21:19: Quote from: iri on Sun, 01 March 2015, 13:59:16
i banned everyone who posted in this thread.
But you posted in this thread? Ban-ception.
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Post by: jacobolus on Sun, 01 March 2015, 14:57:41: Quote from: Melvang on Fri, 27 February 2015, 22:18:52
From what I have read from legit sites, the image is seen as gold and a very light blue. The dress in real life has never been made in anything but blue and black. From what I have read it was a lighting trick combined with possible cropping.

It’s not a “trick”. It’s just that some people are very easily confused and highly suggestible, look at pictures on ****ty-quality cellphone screens in surroundings whose lighting doesn’t match their phone display’s white point, don’t have experience looking at ****ty-quality images and understanding what they see in them, and have no ability to reason their way through visual problems,

Here’s the original image:
(http://i.imgur.com/DtiGt6L.jpg)

The lighting in this scene is obviously quite yellow. This is obvious if we look at anything in the background (other than the blown-out splotch at top right, which seems to be some daylight leaking through a window or something). It’s especially obvious if we look at the dress at bottom left, which is immediately behind the foreground dress, and is obviously supposed to be black and white.

Here’s a version where I’ve fixed the white balance so the background dress is neutral:
(http://i.imgur.com/X4VCcE7.jpg)

There is really no way to interpret this as a “white” dress. That is, there’s no way to construct this specific image if the dress were truly white, without either photoshopping the **** out of everything, using a specially designed camera/sensor, or else using some very strong blue spotlight shining on the dress, and some extremely yellow lighting in the background.

Speaking as someone who has spent years studying human color vision, I’m still incredulous that people think the dress looks white after substantial deliberation and multiple image viewings, and I would be very interested to have some kind of better data on what context they’re in when calling the dress white. I’d love to see a survey showing:
(a) how they first heard about this dress and what was told to them before/while looking at the picture
(b) whether they have normal color vision
(c) what the lighting conditions were in the environment when they looked at the picture
(d) what device they used to see the picture (details like how big the screen was, how high resolution, what white balance, some idea of the display’s color reproduction qualities)
(e) gender

Here’s my best shot at white balancing the photo to make the dress look “white”. Note, in this version the background is now absurdly yellow. And the dress still looks kinda bluish, with “gold” trim a pretty big stretch of the imagination.
(http://i.imgur.com/BhEusNW.jpg)

TL;DR: people have broken vision and broken logical reasoning skills