Christ, that hurts my eyes. Wow.

Wow. This one is very effective. I didn't even have to try to do anything to see it and I'm seeing a jiggling image. Neato

I might have also had my screen really dim when I couldn't see it, thinking back? I just cranked up the brightness and can see it again.

Thanks. I only have it on my phone and my brain refuses to let it move.

I couldn't see it until I opened it up on a big desktop screen, instead of looking at it on my phone. If anyone else is having trouble getting those snakes to rotate

!pareidolia@sh.itjust.works

That alien looking to the left just had their soul sucked out.

Average Jazz Blues album cover.

Hey that's looks kind of like me or maybe my pal pennywise. Hyuk hyuk

OP rn:

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That's because the cones in the centre of our vision are less sensitive to light as they only each capture a certain wavelength. The rods which are more prevalent in our peripheral vision on the other hand, capture a much broader spectrum and are thus a lot more sensitive to brightness variation at the cost of only seeing the world in black and white.

My eyeballs caught fire

Interesting that it is more visible when not looking directly at it.

Zuck?

This happens to me too. I think it's related to my surroundings. Like in a sunlit room it looks white+golden, but in a shadowy room the white becomes blueish and in artificially lit rooms the gold becomes black. Maybe it deoends on light intensity, as the sun is much stronger than regular LED bulbs.

I usually see white and gold, still do

But then you would have light bleed around the edges. Unless you are in an extremely dark room, reflection and diffusion would make the curved edges of the dress receive some of that outside light. Yet the floor at the foot of the dress is well lit.

Back to my original conception of things: understanding of lighting and photography makes the white-gold seem impossible.

I do not deny that people can instinctually miss these details... But I am surprised that further analysis doesn't inevitably resolve in these conclusions.

I usually see this as black and blue, but today saw white and gold. I snapped it back by holding my hand over my phone and making a gap between fingers only over a bit of the dress. Can't see white and gold now.

The assumption from the people arguing white and gold was that the light was outside, and the dress was under a ceiling and it was darker inside. They would think this was backlit.

That's what I've always thought as well. The picture is clearly taken in a bright room and the exposure turned too high.

I wonder if screen and room brightness effects the dress color that is perceived.

Like I replied to another comment, how can you explain that the surrounding environment is yellow then? Based on this diagram, white+gold could only work if the rest of the image was lit with blue light... which it clearly is not.

im over here seeing blue and gold...

Same. I can't fathom how it can't be fathomed!