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If you see black and blue, you're a Democrat (Original Post) marym625 Feb 2015 OP
I see bluish and gold/brownish... but then I have a bit of red-green colorblindness. PoliticAverse Feb 2015 #1
The actual dress is royal blue marym625 Feb 2015 #2
This one, where two identical colors in the same picture look completely different PoliticAverse Feb 2015 #3
oooh. weird marym625 Feb 2015 #4
I see gold and white marym625 Feb 2015 #5
That is exactly what happened to me! 2theleft Feb 2015 #37
Isn't that weird? marym625 Feb 2015 #41
Blue and Black IrishEyes Feb 2015 #6
I completely agree with that! marym625 Feb 2015 #8
White and gold....and I'm a fucking Democrat, thank you very much... Wounded Bear Feb 2015 #7
Haha! marym625 Feb 2015 #9
Me too! Please don't tell me I have some latent Republican leanings. Laffy Kat Feb 2015 #10
Haha! marym625 Feb 2015 #11
So, what does that make me when all I see kentauros Feb 2015 #12
whatever you want to be marym625 Feb 2015 #13
Well, I know what I am ;) kentauros Feb 2015 #14
It's just cool. marym625 Feb 2015 #16
The problem for me is that I know kentauros Feb 2015 #18
But if in the picture with red eyes marym625 Feb 2015 #20
No, I didn't read the link. kentauros Feb 2015 #24
The link is to a slate article that explains the cause marym625 Feb 2015 #25
No need to be sorry. kentauros Feb 2015 #26
red and green rurallib Feb 2015 #15
I think you win! marym625 Feb 2015 #17
Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see jakeXT Feb 2015 #19
Thanks! marym625 Feb 2015 #22
Well, I'm a Republican then. eom Jamaal510 Feb 2015 #21
The entire world is spinning the wrong way? marym625 Feb 2015 #23
In THIS photo it's black & blue ailsagirl Feb 2015 #27
In this photo marym625 Feb 2015 #29
You betcha!! ailsagirl Feb 2015 #34
Bulls-t because I see white and gold nt LiberalElite Feb 2015 #28
I'm OK with seeing it both ways marym625 Feb 2015 #30
. LiberalElite Feb 2015 #31
That's right. I saw the designer being interviewed. The dress is actually blue applegrove Feb 2015 #32
Ha! Perfect! marym625 Feb 2015 #33
All I see is that dress lying on the floor after a hard night of partying... Tom_Foolery Feb 2015 #35
haha! marym625 Feb 2015 #39
I see both when I do this... SwissTony Feb 2015 #36
Same here marym625 Feb 2015 #43
LOL. I'd better tell my wife and kids. It'll be a surprise for them too. n/t SwissTony Feb 2015 #45
Good for you for not hesitating! marym625 Feb 2015 #46
I see PANTS LiberalEsto Feb 2015 #38
awesome! marym625 Feb 2015 #40
I see a bad photograph. alarimer Feb 2015 #42
The link to the slate article in the OP explains why marym625 Feb 2015 #44
I see a dress that needs to be burned, per my gf sakabatou Feb 2015 #47
Your girlfriend is right marym625 Mar 2015 #48

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
1. I see bluish and gold/brownish... but then I have a bit of red-green colorblindness.
Fri Feb 27, 2015, 07:17 PM
Feb 2015

Examining the pixels in picture editing software shows them to be bluish and gold/brownish.

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
3. This one, where two identical colors in the same picture look completely different
Fri Feb 27, 2015, 07:25 PM
Feb 2015

is another good illustration on how easily our vision can be fooled...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion

marym625

(17,997 posts)
5. I see gold and white
Fri Feb 27, 2015, 07:30 PM
Feb 2015

When I move back up the thread and the picture comes into view, I see blue and black. Until the sleeves are in view, then it changes to white and gold again

2theleft

(1,136 posts)
37. That is exactly what happened to me!
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 12:55 PM
Feb 2015

Until you said that and I scrolled up slowly, all I saw was white and gold. I'm glad I finally got to see the black and blue!

IrishEyes

(3,275 posts)
6. Blue and Black
Fri Feb 27, 2015, 08:24 PM
Feb 2015

Everyone in my office was talking about this dress this morning. 75% of people saw the dress as white/gold. I sat right next to a girl looking at the same picture. She was adamant that it was white/gold. Either way, it is kind of an ugly dress in my opinion.

marym625

(17,997 posts)
8. I completely agree with that!
Fri Feb 27, 2015, 09:34 PM
Feb 2015

But it's really weird to see it both ways in the same picture, in the same place

Wounded Bear

(58,604 posts)
7. White and gold....and I'm a fucking Democrat, thank you very much...
Fri Feb 27, 2015, 09:11 PM
Feb 2015


I always saw white and gold, I just see it as being in a blue-ish light.

Laffy Kat

(16,373 posts)
10. Me too! Please don't tell me I have some latent Republican leanings.
Fri Feb 27, 2015, 09:39 PM
Feb 2015

Last edited Fri Feb 27, 2015, 11:30 PM - Edit history (1)

Nooooooooo! I will end it all right now.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
14. Well, I know what I am ;)
Fri Feb 27, 2015, 10:22 PM
Feb 2015

Just that all this hullabaloo about what color the dress is makes me think that people's sense of quality image-making has gone so far downhill that it just doesn't matter that the lighting and exposure make it virtually impossible to 'see' anything close to true colors.

I'm nowhere near as good at photography as some of the people around here, but it does make me wonder what they think about it all, too

marym625

(17,997 posts)
16. It's just cool.
Fri Feb 27, 2015, 10:33 PM
Feb 2015

It matters and it hasn't been lost. Just fun to stand with someone looking at the same thing and they see something completely different. Quality or none, that's interesting and weird.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
18. The problem for me is that I know
Fri Feb 27, 2015, 10:37 PM
Feb 2015

what over-exposure does to color perception. Anyone that takes photos knows this. You can't trust whatever "colors" you think you're seeing because the over-exposure just washed much of it out.

I guess I'm more surprised that people aren't questioning the quality of the image over what's left to see. It would be like people attempting to argue over what color someone's eyes are after a flash turns them red

marym625

(17,997 posts)
20. But if in the picture with red eyes
Fri Feb 27, 2015, 10:46 PM
Feb 2015

Half of the people saw red and half saw green, that's still weird.

I understand that the quality changes the image. It's the fact that you can see something so different than the person next to you, or that you saw 2 seconds ago without moving or the light changing.

Did you read the link I put in the OP. They talk about quality

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
24. No, I didn't read the link.
Fri Feb 27, 2015, 11:36 PM
Feb 2015

Because so far, the majority of posters on the subject haven't ever brought up things like exposure, room lighting-color, and so forth.

On another site, I did see people talking about it, but they also seemed to know that subject anyway. The other point being brought up is the quality of your computer/device monitor, what its settings are at (brightness, contrast, etc). For example, my LCD monitor pretty much requires you to be dead-center to get the best-quality in brightness, contrast, and gamma. Also discussed on that site is just how wrong a digital camera can get a photo based on lighting conditions, no matter what its quality as a camera. It's more about software, though with a phone-camera, CCD and optics size does matter


marym625

(17,997 posts)
25. The link is to a slate article that explains the cause
Fri Feb 27, 2015, 11:39 PM
Feb 2015

So yeah, people are talking about it and I posted on in the OP.

Sorry you don't get a kick out of it. I did

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
26. No need to be sorry.
Fri Feb 27, 2015, 11:52 PM
Feb 2015

I just don't care for low-quality images and see that kind of thing immediately before I pay attention to what anyone else thinks they see in the same image

ailsagirl

(22,885 posts)
27. In THIS photo it's black & blue
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 12:14 AM
Feb 2015

but I originally saw it as blue & brown

(I never did see any white or gold)

marym625

(17,997 posts)
29. In this photo
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 12:32 AM
Feb 2015

I have seen black and blue, and I have seen white and gold.

It's very weird.



But, since you see blue, you are a true, blue Democrat



Thanks for playing!

marym625

(17,997 posts)
30. I'm OK with seeing it both ways
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 12:35 AM
Feb 2015

And that's the same picture, in the same light, in the same place.

Thanks for playing! Some people want to analyze a silly game. I'm glad there are other weird ones like us out there.

applegrove

(118,501 posts)
32. That's right. I saw the designer being interviewed. The dress is actually blue
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 01:11 AM
Feb 2015

and black. So yeah....that is how Democrats see it because they are fact based.

Tom_Foolery

(4,691 posts)
35. All I see is that dress lying on the floor after a hard night of partying...
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 12:15 PM
Feb 2015

I guess that makes me a pervert.

marym625

(17,997 posts)
39. haha!
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 01:13 PM
Feb 2015

Depends on whose dress, where the owner of it is now and what happened once it came off.

Otherwise, it just makes you normal

SwissTony

(2,560 posts)
36. I see both when I do this...
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 12:33 PM
Feb 2015

When I look at the OP, I see white and gold. I then use my mouse wheel so that the picture is now out of my field of sight. I then use my mouse wheel again so that the bottom half only is visible. I see blue and black! As more of the photo becomes visible, it "moves" back to white and gold.

marym625

(17,997 posts)
43. Same here
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 01:29 PM
Feb 2015

So we're both bisexual! Cool. I refuse to be a Republican so I'm going with the sexuality test.

marym625

(17,997 posts)
40. awesome!
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 01:15 PM
Feb 2015

So, you're an independent that won't vote for who a party tells you to vote for

Or maybe pansexual?

Which ever, good for you! Love it!

marym625

(17,997 posts)
44. The link to the slate article in the OP explains why
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 01:30 PM
Feb 2015

We see what we see.

Just wanted to have a little fun with it

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