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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIf you see black and blue, you're a Democrat
If you see white and gold, you're a Republican.
Or we could make it a sexuality test. I actually see both from the same picture and I am bisexual. So there ya go!
Here's the explanation as to why some see one thing, and others see another. While some of us see both.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/02/what_color_is_this_dress_a_scientist_explains_visual_ambiguity_and_color.html
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Examining the pixels in picture editing software shows them to be bluish and gold/brownish.
marym625
(17,997 posts)With black. It's the weirdest thing I have ever seen.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)is another good illustration on how easily our vision can be fooled...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion
marym625
(17,997 posts)I love stuff like this. Nothing like an optical illusion
Thanks for sharing!
marym625
(17,997 posts)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)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!
marym625
(17,997 posts)I understand all the reasons for it. It's still weird.
Love it
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)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)But it's really weird to see it both ways in the same picture, in the same place
Wounded Bear
(58,604 posts)I always saw white and gold, I just see it as being in a blue-ish light.
marym625
(17,997 posts)Alright, you're a fucking Democrat! Bluish light always counts!
Laffy Kat
(16,373 posts)Last edited Fri Feb 27, 2015, 11:30 PM - Edit history (1)
Nooooooooo! I will end it all right now.
marym625
(17,997 posts)LMAO!
That was awesome!
kentauros
(29,414 posts)is a lousy image taken by a low-quality phone-camera?
marym625
(17,997 posts)You get to pick
kentauros
(29,414 posts)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)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)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)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)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)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)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
rurallib
(62,387 posts)I so love the holidays
marym625
(17,997 posts)You're just all kinds of things.
Holidays are fun!
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)I will have to watch the whole thing later but I appreciate the post!
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Hell froze over?
ailsagirl
(22,885 posts)but I originally saw it as blue & brown
(I never did see any white or gold)
marym625
(17,997 posts)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!
ailsagirl
(22,885 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)or, maybe that just means I'm weird. I'm ok with that.
marym625
(17,997 posts)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)and black. So yeah....that is how Democrats see it because they are fact based.
marym625
(17,997 posts)Great answer! Thanks
Tom_Foolery
(4,691 posts)I guess that makes me a pervert.
marym625
(17,997 posts)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)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)So we're both bisexual! Cool. I refuse to be a Republican so I'm going with the sexuality test.
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Better than having to tell them you're half Republican.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)So there
marym625
(17,997 posts)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!
alarimer
(16,245 posts)Probably the white balance was off or something.
marym625
(17,997 posts)We see what we see.
Just wanted to have a little fun with it
sakabatou
(42,140 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Can't see anyone wearing it no matter what color