its because the background gives the impression of bright yellow incandescent lighting but in order to see the dress as white gold you have to assume it’s under entirely different (low diffuse white) lighting conditions than the rest of the image implies
Isn’t it because your brain assumes the dress is in the shadow and only lit by the ambient light from the sky. Hence why the brain color corrects the blue to white since ambient light from the sky is slightly blue.
Yeah you’d have to perceive it as being lit from sunlight under shade, cloud cover, or possibly a skylight. I doubt it has much to do with an intuitive understanding of rayleigh scattering and more just that, in person, your brain would have more temporal context and a wider visual field to model the lighting with than what the image gives you. The floor and the ceiling would be blue in your peripheral and you’d have more angles and depth perception to work with so the distance between and relative strength of the yellow light and white light source would be more obvious.
I can only see the white/gold when it’s color-corrected like this, and I think some people just have some form of auto-exposure correction in their minds. If I remember correctly, the original photo is the one on the right.
One day we’re going to figure out why and all other forms of prejudice will cease to exist and be replaced with the one true differentiator of human quality.
At the top of the left one I could definitely see why people would think the black part is gold due to the lighting and exposure. I’ve never been able to grasp how people see white though, for me it’s like saying a bluebird sky is white.
Thanks. Simply by looking at this image from the wiki, I was able to finally see it in blue and black. Once I focused on the color of the illumination, I was able to start seeing it correctly. And then I can switch back to seeing it in white and gold by zooming in completely on the black/gold section for a second.
The image actually explains how people see white as well. Both the white and blue sections inside of the colored squares are the exact same color.
The picture (the one in the OP, not the one I linked) has always been super weird to me, because if you invert the colors of the dress then it IS gold/white. Meaning the white/gold dress (in my eyes) would become gold/white when inverted, which made absolutely zero sense lol.
I still have never been able to see white and gold
its because the background gives the impression of bright yellow incandescent lighting but in order to see the dress as white gold you have to assume it’s under entirely different (low diffuse white) lighting conditions than the rest of the image implies
Isn’t it because your brain assumes the dress is in the shadow and only lit by the ambient light from the sky. Hence why the brain color corrects the blue to white since ambient light from the sky is slightly blue.
Yeah you’d have to perceive it as being lit from sunlight under shade, cloud cover, or possibly a skylight. I doubt it has much to do with an intuitive understanding of rayleigh scattering and more just that, in person, your brain would have more temporal context and a wider visual field to model the lighting with than what the image gives you. The floor and the ceiling would be blue in your peripheral and you’d have more angles and depth perception to work with so the distance between and relative strength of the yellow light and white light source would be more obvious.
There’s a great video on how effects like these work.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU
I can only see the white/gold when it’s color-corrected like this, and I think some people just have some form of auto-exposure correction in their minds. If I remember correctly, the original photo is the one on the right.
Original photo is the left one but the right depicts the proper colors.
Shit now I’m questioning my entire reality…
What’s funny is, color-correcting should remove yellow/white light, making it MORE blue/black
I still have never been able to see blue and black
Someone down voted you bro. This world is crazy.
One day we’re going to figure out why and all other forms of prejudice will cease to exist and be replaced with the one true differentiator of human quality.
At the top of the left one I could definitely see why people would think the black part is gold due to the lighting and exposure. I’ve never been able to grasp how people see white though, for me it’s like saying a bluebird sky is white.
Edit: the wiki article on this is amazing
Thanks. Simply by looking at this image from the wiki, I was able to finally see it in blue and black. Once I focused on the color of the illumination, I was able to start seeing it correctly. And then I can switch back to seeing it in white and gold by zooming in completely on the black/gold section for a second.
The image actually explains how people see white as well. Both the white and blue sections inside of the colored squares are the exact same color.
The picture (the one in the OP, not the one I linked) has always been super weird to me, because if you invert the colors of the dress then it IS gold/white. Meaning the white/gold dress (in my eyes) would become gold/white when inverted, which made absolutely zero sense lol.
I think Lemmy can handle the original image
Well, I can’t say I’m surprised lol.
That is a great image.
What about in the left in OP?