What color is this dress?
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Oh cruel needless misunderstanding! even color programs can't agree with each other.
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Light enters the eye through the lens—different wavelengths corresponding to different colors. The light hits the retina in the back of the eye where pigments fire up neural connections to the visual cortex, the part of the brain that processes those signals into an image. Critically, though, that first burst of light is made of whatever wavelengths are illuminating the world, reflecting off whatever you’re looking at. Without you having to worry about it, your brain figures out what color light is bouncing off the thing your eyes are looking at, and essentially subtracts that color from the “real” color of the object. “Our visual system is supposed to throw away information about the illuminant and extract information about the actual reflectance,” says Jay Neitz, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington.
Usually that system works just fine. This image, though, hits some kind of perceptual boundary. That might be because of how people are wired. Human beings evolved to see in daylight, but daylight changes color. That chromatic axis varies from the pinkish red of dawn, up through the blue-white of noontime, and then back down to reddish twilight. “What’s happening here is your visual system is looking at this thing, and you’re trying to discount the chromatic bias of the daylight axis,” says Bevil Conway, a neuroscientist who studies color and vision at Wellesley College. “So people either discount the blue side, in which case they end up seeing white and gold, or discount the gold side, in which case they end up with blue and black.” (Conway sees blue and orange, somehow.
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Light enters the eye through the lens—different wavelengths corresponding to different colors. The light hits the retina in the back of the eye where pigments fire up neural connections to the visual cortex, the part of the brain that processes those signals into an image. Critically, though, that first burst of light is made of whatever wavelengths are illuminating the world, reflecting off whatever you’re looking at. Without you having to worry about it, your brain figures out what color light is bouncing off the thing your eyes are looking at, and essentially subtracts that color from the “real” color of the object. “Our visual system is supposed to throw away information about the illuminant and extract information about the actual reflectance,” says Jay Neitz, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington.
Usually that system works just fine. This image, though, hits some kind of perceptual boundary. That might be because of how people are wired. Human beings evolved to see in daylight, but daylight changes color. That chromatic axis varies from the pinkish red of dawn, up through the blue-white of noontime, and then back down to reddish twilight. “What’s happening here is your visual system is looking at this thing, and you’re trying to discount the chromatic bias of the daylight axis,” says Bevil Conway, a neuroscientist who studies color and vision at Wellesley College. “So people either discount the blue side, in which case they end up seeing white and gold, or discount the gold side, in which case they end up with blue and black.” (Conway sees blue and orange, somehow.
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NaNaNaaaaa
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And the dress is Black and Blue, lots of you must be colour blind
Absolutely brilliant XD
And the dress is Black and Blue, lots of you must be colour blind
It is, its a horrible dress
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I myself thought it was white and gold... Still looks white and gold to me but my roommate sees the black and blue. A video proved to me that it's black and blue but this dress threw me for a trip too man Lol
I was about to post something similar to this. It's basically the same as hearing, like how people can hear different frequencies of sound. Everyone would pretty much hear the same sounds but we get slight variations from person to person. The same applies with sight. Some people have more sensitive eyes and they'll see the black and blue.
I myself thought it was white and gold... Still looks white and gold to me but my roommate sees the black and blue. A video proved to me that it's black and blue but this dress threw me for a trip too man Lol
The Dreamer
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It's white and gold for me. It's just funny how you can mess with people if you figure out how to manipulate the wavelengths of light.
It's white and gold for me. It's just funny how you can mess with people if you figure out how to manipulate the wavelengths of light.
