• wetsoggybread@lemmy.world
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    I never really thought much of it just a ‘huh, it looks white ans gold to me’ then i realized ive had a blue light filter on my computer and phone for a long time and its heavily skewed into red. Turns out turning that off helped me see it as blue and black. Who knew

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    This picture made me feel incredibly weird. I see blue and brownish - we can call it gold. Like, I see the same colors you’ll see if you do an average color extraction over the image using an image processor. There’s no color illusion for me at all. The whole world went mad in two camps and I’m in neither.

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      14 hours ago

      You’re in the blue and black camp. I get what you mean, it’s sort of a yellowish brown, but that’s why the illusion is there in the first place. Some people’s brains adjust it to a more yellow color instead of more of a black/dark brown.

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        I appreciate your answer. But aren’t you just in my camp, maybe? If some people in the blue/black camp see a yellowish brown, why do they call it black? And why do they insist it’s the only way the image could be interpreted?

        What struck me about the whole thing was how people seemingly could not fathom how the colors could be seen as anything other than what they personally saw/interpreted. Were some of them exaggerating, do you think?

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          But aren’t you just in my camp, maybe?

          Yeah, the blue/black camp.

          No, I don’t think people were exaggerating. It’s a very weird optical illusion that branches to different outcomes for people. I was only ever able to see the white/yellow once by looking at it upside down and slowly revealing more of the dress from the bottom. Other illusions like that spinning ballerina are easier to flip in your mind or at least understand why people see it the other way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_dancer

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    I still have never been able to see white and gold

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      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

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        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.

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          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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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

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        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.

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    Stg i saw gold/white on left first, then after looking at the right one for a bit it just switched to the classic blue/black ive always seen. I hate this picture so damm much

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    2 days ago

    I’m guessing the dude on the right is a Voss, but what’s the one on the left? Just really pale?

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    The dress on the left has put in amazing service over the years, and even it’s getting a bit threadbare it can be a nice part of the right ensemble. The one on the right seems great in drawings and text descriptions, but just sorta hangs there limply once it’s actually delivered.