I can’t do this again…
I know I’m wrong, but it’s just staring at me gold & white. It’s right there, clearly, and I don’t know how to explain it to those who see it the other way.
I’m the same, looking straight at it all I can see is white and gold. Like a bright gold even, it’s not even brown.
If I look at it in my peripheral vision it’s very clearly blue and black though 🤷.
I just tried peripheral vision, and it’s still solidly gold/white to me. Damn
Try zooming into the blue part on your phone and putting your phone up against a white wall
If I remember from the first time this came around it had a lot to do with how your eyes interpreted the lighting in the image. Try putting it away then looking at it in different light settings and often it allows you to see the other one.
how the fuck does this look like anything other than blue and black?!?!
Looks to me like a white and gold dress that’s being shaded from the ambient light. In reality, it’s a black and blue dress with a yellow light cast on it.
Your mind naturally tries to compensate for color shifts caused by light. For example, a white car still looks white to you at sunset and in the moonlight even though it is actually reflecting that red or blue light, not white light (i.e. all colors of light). That’s because your eye recognizes the general pallete of the ambient light and makes an interpretation automatically about the colors of the objects you see.
That’s happening in this picture too, either correctly interpreting it as black and blue in yellow light or incorrectly as white and gold in shade. But even knowing it’s incorrect, changing your brain’s interpretation is not easy.
Palette
Pale for the white canvas, 🎨🖼️🖌️ for mixing your oil paints on
Pallet -the only one with ll- just like the wood slats it’s made of
Palate -has “ate” and is about your mouth and taste.
My guess is that some people don’t see the gestalt, they get stuck on the actual RGB color values, which float around light gray/blue, and a dark gold.
From what I read at the time, there’s an intrinsic lighting judgement being made. It could be one dress being lit in natural light, or another lit under a florescent bar. They both would produce the same RGB values.
Interestingly nobody has been able to replicate the effect in another image. It’s truly remarkable and one of the best things off of the internet.
Because your brain doesn’t just straight up show you the raw color value sent by your eyes, it tries to estimate the true color of the object based on lighting and context cues.
If you look at a chess board with a gradient shade on it, you brain will tell you the squares are black and white, even tough they are really all completely different shades of grey to your eyes. Depending on the context, literally the same color can appear black or white to you.
All because your brain is trying to be a smartass.
For the first time ever I saw white and gold with this instance of the picture. It scrolled from the bottom of my phone screen and I was wondering what this white and gold picture was… Then I saw it was the dress and I recreated the effect for myself a couple times because I was shocked that I’d finally made the dress look white and gold!
Most of the time it’s obviously black and blue, I wonder if this version is doctored slightly, because I’ve literally never seen it as white and gold before today.
And now the effect is gone… :-(
I can’t not see white and gold. The white just looks like it’s in shadow.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20935843/
Also:
Shadow Color
In real life, shadows often appear to be a different color than the area around them. For example, outdoors on a sunny day, shadows can appear to be tinted blue. The shadows appear blue because the bright yellow light from the sun is blocked from the shadow area, leaving only indirect light and blue light from other parts of the sky.
So basically, if the light source has a yellow color to it (which many often do), the shadows can appear blue.
Only once in my life did I see it gold and white
It’s always been white and gold for me