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The colors of this photo will appear different to everyone. I think?

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Orbis Tabula

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Blizzard said:
I checked the RGB values as well and see the same thing. What I REALLY want to know is, for anyone looking at corn_fest's picture, do you also see black and blue there?
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Originally, I saw white and gold dress.
After seeing the corrected exposure, I now see black and blue dress.
Looking at this picture, of two colored blobs, I see a darkish grey and gold.
 
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MarcoZombieCannon

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Yo, I saw it as blue-grey/white and gold before, but after I went through the thread I see it as blue and kind of a dark brown. wtf.

Help.

I'm probably suffering retinal failure.
 
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Jamix012

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Black and Blue and apparently it has to do with your eyes. Higher functioning eyes see black and blue.

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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 it’s black. ADDITIVE mixing, when you add the three colors 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.

**** UPDATE to prove this theory I turned my phone brightness from the lowest to highest and saw it switching from white and gold (at the lowest) to light blue and darker gold (at the highest) meaning people that see blue and black are more sensitive to light (better eyesight and not looking at the sun like your moms told you)

**Also if you see white and gold sometimes, blue and black another, or a combination of the two, your eyes are very average, and it could change because of YOUR rooms lighting or the tilt of your phone. This is the same manipulation they use for optical illusions
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Edit: guess it was put into the OP earlier, my bad
 
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rObit

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I think it has to do with your brain's interpretation of the lighting that the photo was taken in. When I first looked at it, on its own, I thought it was white and gold, but I thought that the whites looked blueish because they were in low light or something. When I saw the dress in the other photo, then looked back at the original one, I can see it's blue and black, and the lighting of the photo makes more sense now.
 
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Necromanti

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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.
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The dim lighting of...the computer screen?
 
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ExplodingKetchup

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Floridian said:
For the "white & gold" crew, is this something similar to what you're seeing? That's white & gold to me.

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Yes, though the white is a little more blue. What do the blue and black colors look like?
 
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NobleGundam

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Maybe b'cuz the majority of posters seeing colors outside of Blue and Gold have a slight chance of color blindness? It's quite common in males.
 
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Pandaman

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light blue and gold.
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i can certainly understand calling it white and gold, but anyone saying black is crazy.
 
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FootieGamer

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This is freaking me out. It's clearly black and blue. I feel like the whole world is trying to play an elaborate trick on me by saying they see white and gold.
 
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Holmes

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EskimoJoe said:
Originally, I saw white and gold dress.
After seeing the corrected exposure, I now see black and blue dress.
Looking at this picture, of two colored blobs, I see a darkish grey and gold.
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Same for me. Saw white and gold, then the corrected exposure, and now only blue and black.
 
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jgwhiteus

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It kinda reminds me of this optical illusion, the spinning dancer. At first I was positive she was moving to the left, but after a while I saw her moving to the right, and my brain couldn't process it any other way:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_Dancer
The Spinning Dancer, also known as the silhouette illusion, is a kinetic, bistable optical illusion resembling a pirouetting female dancer. The illusion, created in 2003 by web designer Nobuyuki Kayahara,[1][2] involves the apparent direction of motion of the figure. Some observers initially see the figure as spinning clockwise (viewed from above) and some anti-clockwise. Additionally, some may see the figure suddenly spin in the opposite direction.[2]
The illusion derives from the lack of visual cues for depth. For instance, as the dancer's arms move from viewer's left to right, it is possible to view her arms passing between her body and the viewer (that is, in the foreground of the picture, in which case she would be circling anti-clockwise on her right foot) and it is also possible to view her arms as passing behind the dancer's body (that is, in the background of the picture, in which case she is seen circling clockwise on her left foot).
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Spinning_Dancer.gif
 
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Blizzard

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Sölf;153844970 said:
I only see black and blue in all of the dress pictures. Stop telling me you see something different! D:
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I'm not talking the DRESS. I'm talking corn_fest's direct solid color blobs. What colors do you (or any black-/blue-seeing person) see here?

corn_fest said:
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the two colors, from photoshop. dunno how you can say that's not gold
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EskimoJoe said:
Originally, I saw white and gold dress.
After seeing the corrected exposure, I now see black and blue dress.
Looking at this picture, of two colored blobs, I see a darkish grey and gold.
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Yep, and that darkish grey and gold are hex values taken from an image editor.

The top of the dress where it's bright is, for example, (125, 110, 67) RGB.

Even the dark portion at the bottom of the dress is, for example, (71, 55, 42) RGB.

It can't even be considered gray from the numbers, since they're not balanced , right? Look how low the blue component is in the first example. It's only 67. It also can't be considered black, surely, since even 42-71 is bright enough to be gray if you do something like (42, 42, 42) or (71, 71, 71).
 
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Fusebox

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My 3yo said she sees blue and brown, still white and dark gold for me, although the corrected image is a slightly blue tinged white.
 
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Nanashrew

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Floridian said:
For the "white & gold" crew, is this something similar to what you're seeing? That's white & gold to me.

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Sort of. I do see a tint of blue within the white of OP's picture but misinterpreted it as the bright light causing it. The picture is just overexposed.
 
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Orbis Tabula

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I can't get white and gold back, even when I try and force it. It's not like a Necker Cube. I can't just make it happen. Although, if I were to try and explain it to the black and blue people, focus on the top center of the dress. The brightest part of the black on top. That's the closest to the gold as I can find.
 
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CloudyTuba

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corn_fest said:
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the two colors, from photoshop. dunno how you can say that's not gold
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These are clearly the factual colors. This is like grandma email spam.

Your interpretation of color is affected by the colors around it so there is a tiny grain of truth to this, but overall it's just some BS to make people who see the picture one way feel superior.
 
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