Its so funny that this meme has sparked the exact debate all over again.
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It's pale blue and gold, right?
I see blue and gold too, but you're the first other person I've met who does
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Literally the entire planet remembers this. Even people who were not born yet.
When that was going around I saw it as black and blue, and my partner at the time saw it as white and gold. When it was revealed that it was actually the former, I made a comment something like "I guess the difference is I see things as they actually are", which got me a sharp look. :)
Yes, I do remember ten years ago.
This concludes your long term memory exam. Please see the lady at the front desk to schedule your short term exam.
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I swear it was blue and black this morning, but now it's white and gold!
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The blue of the dress is pretty obvious, the black details are a different, golden hue due to ambient light. I "know" it's black, but it looks dark gold
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I only see white gold
I still see both colors alternatingly.
Were people just stupid or something and not capable of knowing when the ambient light and camera is affecting the colour of the image?
WTF is this about people getting exact pixel colours?! The question is what colour is the dress, not the colour of the picture in which the dress is depicted!
Using pixel colour to determine the colour of a dress is like saying Martin Luther King had grey skin because the photo he's depicted in is in black and white!
Nah, it's actually possible to see each version. There are actually three: white and gold, blue and black, blue and brown. It's like those "magic eye puzzles". It just kinda pops into place when it happens. Depending on the lighting in your room and what colors your eyes have recently been looking at, your eyes will see it differently. It has partly to do with how what you "see" is a hodgepodge of signals all being processed into one "image" and the way we process color.
You are correct tho, objectively the image is a specific RGB value and has a defined "color". That whole divergence between what it is and what it appears to be is the very subject of all those research papers.
I believe one of the ways to easily defeat this trick is to put the dress on a person. The skin tone will act as a known reference point for the rest.
People were distributing edited versions of the dress image just to fuck with people. I'm convinced that trolling was the root of the entire "debate".
So what color was his skin?
Brown?
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Always saw it as white/gold first but after a few seconds I perceive it as blue/black and then it stays that way.
Thants so cool i finally got to see both color version and how my brain blends between them. For anyone wondering how, I am in a dark room with the phone (darkmode lemmy) and it was looking white gold to me. But when I squish my eyes to darken the incoming screen light and blocking of the right light background with my thumb I could make it fade into blue with black stripes.
Here's a pretty good Slate article on this dress, and how important this image became:
https://slate.com/technology/2017/04/heres-why-people-saw-the-dress-differently.html
When I look at the image attached to this post, I can't see anything but white and gold, as I always have. This, in spite of now knowing it's black and blue.