Are there other pictures like this?

Here

I never found out what that was about. Was it some sort of mass troll?

but that's blue and gold o_0

it's just a picture someone posted to tumblr and people started arguing about what color it is, with like 95% of people agreeing it's black and blue but some other people saw white and gold for some reason

Yes, someone made a picture where the dress was white and gold and a picture where the dress was black and blue.

Release each on different platforms, and watch people argue over literally nothing.

>(((NBC)))
well i guess who know who's behind it now.....

Not true. If you show a certain amount of people the picture OP posted, you will eventually reach someone who say the color is white and gold. Try it. That's what was so surprising about it when it was popular.

those people are probably just trolling

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They're not. Ask you grandma or other people who most likely have never seen this dress. I remember when this took the world and I asked my grand-aunts and super sheltered co-workers. Many of them said white and gold. There are many youtube videos explaining the phenomena.

Isn't it /pol/ that whines about injecting politics into everything

what the fuck it works

Why does my brain still try to trick me into thinking these are different colors when I know that they are the same? Is my brain fucking stupid?

same as this optical illusion where colors in different lighting or surrounding colors seem to have a different hue when they really dont.

Also the light in the original image actually does wash out the blue and black to appear lighter then they are in normal lighting.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_adaptation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_constancy

i mean you can make out that the white on the right is a little blue and the black on the left is a little yellow. but they still look different

My man!

That gif is mind blowing.

It's white and gold for me

It's odd -- even looking t that, I can't see the blue/black in OP's image.

Subtle I like you.

Oh shit I can see it both ways now.

If I simply look at it, I see white and gold like I always saw but if I look at the black dress behind it (in the lower left) I see that the black parts are the same color as what I considered to be gold and I see the "white" slowly becoming blue.

That said the one in this thread is too pale for me, I see it way more easily on this one.

What dress? All I see is an image.

>rl oldfag
>visit this board for the first time
>stumble upon this post immediately
>brain has melted into shit and I'm never coming back

but it's grey and brown

I still can't fathom what sort of mental defect you have to suffer from to see white and gold in that image.

except the background and ambient lighting in OP's image isn't dark but bright as fuck

yeah that's why the dress looks blue and black when it's really white and gold

The dress is literally blue and black though.

I can only see the black if I cross my eyes and intentionally give myself shit vision

Do people who see black just have shitty genetics?

Nothing here is about what color the dress is -- it's about what color the badly-exposed JPG image makes it appear to be.

Ant statement starting with "the dress is..." is making a mistake.

nice projection

lmao you got butthurt by this post didn't you:

>Is this dress black and blue or white and gold?

No idea, but I got some matching shoes to go with it.

>immediately see this as black and blue
>still see this piece of shit as gold and white unless I squint my eyes
Years later and I still hate that fucking dress.

i see gray and brown desu
what's up with you idiots

It is literally blue and black. The differences are due to the way the lighting is in the photo, and the lighting in the viewer's environment.
>Note some images were edited
The original is really blue.

Essentially, your brain expects yellow light to come from the top of your view (the sun) and blue light to been seen in shadows. You may notice the yellow light in the top half of the image and blue in the bottom.

If you think you're looking at a dress in a shadow, it appears blue and black. If you think it's in sunlight, it appears white and gold. Or perhaps vice versa.
Regardless, the dress is blue.

>still see this piece of shit as gold and white unless I squint my eyes
What's wrong with you though?

seriously can't stop laughing at the annoying extra leg

Usually with these illusions once I know the actual color I can see it but this stupid dress is still white and gold to me.

Why do people struggle to much with this shit?

maybe we should really make art mandatory in collage.

pic related, one of the first things you learn when you want to draw shit.

the quality turned out shit, so heres the actual pic.

That means you're retarded, user. Yeah sorry.

empirenews.net/thedress-neuroscientists-say-people-who-see-white-gold-have-mental-deficiencies/

those trees don't look green at all

the highlights appear green to me. But this picture that went around recently is a much better example. There is no predominantly red color here.

Why don't we just see the actual colors that things are. Why does the brain feel the need to adjust shit

>the actual colors that things are

>There is no predominantly red color here

There is, it just needs leveling.

>when i change the colors, then it's there!

If you look at any color individually, it is not red. Same as explained here with the green of the trees.

Forgot pic

That's what are brain is trying to do when it adjusts color.

Lets say you're in direct sunlight and looking at a fruit. You see that it is yellow.
Later, you see that same fruit under a thick canopy of tree leaves, so all the light is filtered through the leaves, giving the light a green tint. Now the fruit technically is green, because of that green tint to everything, but your brain corrects for this and allows you to see its "true" color as yellow, so you can identify it as the same fruit. Later, in a dark moonlit night, everything is very dark. You see the fruit and it looks nearly black, because it's so dark. Your brain corrects for this by seeing it as yellow again.

In these situations, entirely different amounts and wavelengths of light are hitting your eye, but your brain correctly identifies it as the same colored object

always remember that photographs are not natural and your brain is not designed to deal with photographs, so it's not really a "mistake" if your brain can't correctly identify photos taken out of context. If you were actually there and saw the dress yourself with your own eyes and not from a photo, I think you would have no problem at all telling what color it is.

>anime autist

that's a good evolutionary explanation, but it's still dumb that we don't see the same wavelengths of light as the same color regardless of context

Art is pretty mandatory if you're making a collage

I remember that thread
cool and trippy

I just checked in paint, the first picture is actually true

Right now its white and gold but I've seen it change from Black and blue to white and gold which was weird and neat.

yeah. you can check it easily by holding a finger between the tiles A and B. Without the surrounding tiles and shadow you can easily see that it's the same color. Should have used this.

What is this meant to show?

The capacity of the human brain for processing visual information easily outstrips the most sophicated, purpose-built optical hardware and software known to science. It just is that, like nearly all aspects of biology, it's thoroughly optimized for naturalistic inputs. Which allows synthetic inputs to fool it.

Congrats. You found a way to feel superior to someone who makes jokes on the internet. Hope that was fulfilling

That actually be horribly inconvenient. Lighting conditions change by the second and pretty much everything in the world that is colorcoded would be useless to you. A bright red stopsign would more often appear purple or blue to you and the green light on a traffic light would look cyan through the blue tint of your car windshield.

You dream of "only seeing true color" would effectively make you completely colorblind for all practical purposes. It would be horrible

it baffle me how some would think this is gold?
have they never seen pure gold? the blue part might be just a confusion of colors but for the gold part you'd have to imagine all the brilliance and reflectivity, the textile is dull and lacks shine and small lightspots.

still blue and black

checked in paint prgram and works with this one but not

It's a dull gold like this for me, and that pic is the color my Photoshop sees in the clearer parts of what is considered black on the dress and that I see as gold.

It's not baffling if your brain gets rid of the blue tint instead of the red tint because it assume the light source is different.

Terrible meme.

Brainlet here, is this a meme or what?
I always see these as white and gold. Are people that say it's blue and black trolling?

>this normie meme again
how in the world did anyone see that as white and gold

the background is yellow, there is your reference
does that look like a lighter color than yellow? no? then how can it be white

this was the stupidest thing

I don't see any green

I only see black and blue in the dress too

I thought it was just a retarded hoax which got out of hand

I opened it in paint and used the colour picker on the strawberries

If you zoom in on the strawberries the colour picker appears red but if you then take it out to the side the colour appears grey

Isn't it autists that whine about injecting jokes into everything?

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I don't understand how people see blue and black at all.

It is clearly white and gold.

It's more interesting when you consider that this can be directly perceived in those two different tones. I don't think the question is what color the dress really is.

>Is this dress black and blue or white and gold?

I was one of the tiny percentage of people who saw the dress as it actually was in the picture: blue and gold.

Also, OP's pic is altered. See the middle top of my pic for the actual original.

>it baffle me how some would think this is gold?

Yeah, it was really never a true "gold". It was more of a brownish gold. I don't think there's a popular word for that color, so a lot of people just said "gold" because it had kind of a metallic sheen, and "gold" was the closest metallic color they could think of.

I've been saying it from the beginning you can easily shift your own perception of the dress by shifting how you perceive its environment. However, I've come to believe that is easier for some people than for others. It's like the spinning dancer that your brain can see spinning one way or another, most people can switch directions at will, but others have difficulty. I don't think it's a matter of intelligence, because my friend Jeremy is one of the smartest guys I know and I spend my career interacting with very smart people.

Sorry, I didn't complete that thought, but if it wasn't obvious, Jeremy insisted that it went one way and didn't believe us that we could make it shift directions.

The reflection fucks this one up

that's grey and brown

If you want to get philosophical about it, you can't actually see somethings true color; You can only see how your brain interprets it.
There are colors humans can't even perceive, so other animals see the world differently than humans see it.

Never fucking change niggers. I love this place

beige, café, lightbrown...

Yes, there are more examples of people being stupid

Holy fuck. what is this

I get how you could see blue, but there isn't an ounce of black on that dress.

>ambient lighting can make black look anything other than black
kys

So the joke is that people browsing on shittty TVs see it as blue and black.

That you're literally retarded