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Colour optical illusion (feddit.dk)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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[–] 14 points 5 months ago (9 children)

I've seen the dress on multiple different types of screens and it has literally always looked blue and black.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah i am with you. I never understood how anyone saw gold.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    So, when you say that you never understood how anyone saw gold are you

    a) Seeing an extremely washed out image and compensating
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    b) You are literally seeing a solid black and a navy blue i.e. there's basically an insignificant amount of difference to your eye between the black part of the dress and #000000

    If it's the former that might explain some of the difference in opinion, if it's the latter then I have no idea how I would manage to interpret it as black.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    We're seeing (presuming other people who see it as black and blue aren't having some strange different experience, somehow) an image that is very very very very obviously taken in bright yellow/orange-tinted light, and just intuitively doing mental white balancing on it.

    This is roughly what we interpret the dress as looking like under normal white lighting:

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    I have a hypothesis that the dress just shows that lots more people have some weird issues with color. Not necessarily outright color blindness but moreso just general processing issues. But what do I know I'm just some asshole with photosensitivity.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    The first couple times I saw the dress I saw it as white/gold. But after learning it was black/blue I stared at it and the colors seemed to shift in my brain. Now I can't see the white/gold for the life of me.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Same, i simply cannot find any other explanation for it. Apparently a significant amount of the population cannot do white-balancing in their head.
    I have to assume they still experience the more physical white-balancing from light depleting the stuff in cone cells though: that thing where if you close one eye for a bit while looking at a sunny landscape, then open it and compare to the other eye by alternating which one you close; you'll see the world tinted.. i think it's blue-green-ish and red-ish depending on the eye. Different tint depending on the eye, at least.

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