What colour is this dress?

What colour is this dress?

Poll: What colour is this dress?

Total Members Polled: 569

White and Gold: 69%
Black and Blue: 31%
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North West Tom

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11,511 posts

176 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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Tony Starks

2,089 posts

211 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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Is this one of those left brain/right brain things?

North West Tom

Original Poster:

11,511 posts

176 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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Tony Starks said:
Is this one of those left brain/right brain things?
I think it is. I was absolutely certain that it was white and gold, and then it just seemed to flip. Now I can't unsee black and blue.

Brigand

2,544 posts

168 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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Looking directly at it I'd say it was white and gold. Looking at it out of the corner of my left eye (so not looking directly at the image) its still white and gold, but looking at it out of the corner of my right eye its quite clearly blue and black.

Is that what you mean by the right brain / left brain comment?

Lugy

830 posts

182 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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No matter how many times I close my eyes, move the screen angle or convince myself it's black and blue I still see white and gold! Am I doing it wrong?

iambeowulf

712 posts

171 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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The left/right brain dichotomy is just pop-psychology pseudoscience. It seems it's just one of the easier myths that "science" can promote.

Apart from it being a hideous dress it is gold and white, or off-white but that's probably because of the poor quality picture. I tried squinting and looking at different angles but made no difference, but then I am posterior-brained. smile

Edited by iambeowulf on Friday 27th February 05:56

Gingerbread Man

9,171 posts

212 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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Clearly white and gold to me. My girlfriend says clearly blue and black. Madness, she's obviously blind.

littlebasher

3,767 posts

170 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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Interweb says

"Your eyes have retinas, the things that let you interpret color. There’s rods, round things, and cones that stick out, which is what gives your eye a textured appearance in the colored part. The “cones” see color. The “rods” see shade, like black, white and grey. Cones only work when enough light passes through. So while I see the fabric as white, someone else may see it as blue because my cones aren’t responding to the dim lighting. My rods see it as a shade (white).

There’s three cones: small, medium and large. They are blue sensitive, green sensitive, and red sensitive.

As for the black bit (which I see as gold), it’s called additive mixing. Blue, green and red are the main colors for additive mixing. This is where it gets really tricky. Subtractive mixing, such as with paint, means the more colors you add the murkier it gets until its black. ADDITIVE mixing, when you add the three colors the eyes see best, red, green and blue, (not to be confused with primary colors red, blue and yellow) it makes pure white.

—Blue and Black: In conclusion, your retina’s cones are more high functioning, and this results in your eyes doing subtractive mixing.

—White and Gold: our eyes don’t work well in dim light so our retinas rods see white, and this makes them less light sensitive, causing additive mixing, (that of green and red), to make gold.”

Gingerbread Man

9,171 posts

212 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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It's just popped up as an article on Oz news funnily enough.

TheAngryDog

12,394 posts

208 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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Blue and goldish.....

iambeowulf

712 posts

171 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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Like I said, it's a bad quality picture so it's irrelevant what colour we think it is.

It's like asking what car looks better when each of the pictures are taken from the sellers bedroom window!

BlackST

9,079 posts

164 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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Black and blue for me. Can see no white and gold dress in the picture.

bobbo89

5,151 posts

144 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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TheAngryDog said:
Blue and goldish.....
Ditto, pale blue and gold to me confused

I can make the gold turn black by squinting but its still pale blue!


Edited by bobbo89 on Friday 27th February 06:48

Speedy11

516 posts

207 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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I think it is a bit like this optical illusion




However the gold/black bits of the dress are this colour



and the blue/white bits this colour


Soir

2,268 posts

238 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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Blue with brown stripes

DrDoofenshmirtz

15,187 posts

199 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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I see blue and gold...and dead people.

Patch1875

4,893 posts

131 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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Weird.. I see white and gold,my 8yo daughter said brown and blue.

redtwin

7,518 posts

181 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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I can see the sail boat.

Due to the shadow cast by the poor quality lighting, the white bits have a blue hue, but the gold bits are still gold no matter how many blind people claim to see black.

Edited by redtwin on Friday 27th February 08:11

bishbosh66

118 posts

121 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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What dress ?

wolfracesonic

6,941 posts

126 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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Don't know, but I bet you'd look gorgeous in it........