What color is this dress?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I tilted the screen I saw it different ways, but at first I couldn't believe anyone could see anything other than gold and white.

Then I got to reading this other article which shows a chess board and a green cylinder making a shadow, and you have to guess which color is darker -- the grey square of the white square in the shadows (and of course they're the same color). I can't do these things. My brain is hardwired. He doesn't like all of you trying to mess with him.

I find your post the most interesting in this thread because you talk about your brain in the third person and refer to it as "he."

Now, if you are a woman, that would be REALLY interesting! (And a little depressing. . .)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

We can all agree it is butt fugly, right?

Yes.

I'm 2/27 at 22:49, and I agree with you both. After I heard about it on the radio I saw the thread here, clicked the link and saw the dress. My first thought was 'It's blue and black.' My second was 'Does it even matter? It's so ugly, whatever color it is.' People really would CHOOSE this over other options?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:blue/black np here. Of course they are different blacks. All blacks are different in textiles (ever try to match a random pair of black pants and a black jacket that aren't designed to be a suit?) The black of the lace is not the sameas the black of the chair. But the lace on the dress is not gold.

Those of us who see the dress as blue/black are compensating for the way the photograph washes out the dress.

No. The dress IS blue and black.

uh yeah, that's what I said...if you see the blue and "black" you are taking the shitty lighting into account by thinking "that lace must be black or at least dark to appear as it does in those conditions." gold-seers are not compensating for the bad light and assume that the washed-out-ness is what it looks like in good light.

Those of us who see it as white and gold (and I've read the articles and seen the real blue/black dress and manipulated my screen every way and it's always white and gold to me), are also compensating, we're just compensating for different assumed lighting. So, we see it as if it's in shadow, with too much light behind it, causing the dress itself to be heavily shadowed. To me, the dress looks like a white dress with a bluish grayish shadow on it. Even when I know it's not true, that it's overexposed not underexposed, I can't see it that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw white and gold. Very white, very gold.

Then I looked up this story and I saw the woman wearing the dress, it was clearly blue and black.

Now when I see the original picture again, it's like a blue with a faded black/brown/gold

Same here. If I look away, it changes. It actually morphed in front of my eyes once, and that was freaky.