Gold & White or Black & Blue

[Kyoroto]

I believe this has gone viral in the past few hours..

But more importantly how do you see this dress. Gold and White OR Black and Blue

[Eclipsed]

Anybody who says anything other than Blue & Gold is delusional and needs to get their eyes checked.

[Abyssal Monkey]

Anybody who says anything other than Blue & Gold is delusional and needs to get their eyes checked.

Agreed.  Ignoring the lighting it is clearly a White and Gold dress.

[LinovaA]

White and Gold.

 

Dearie me, the things that go viral these days.. 

[Eclipsed]

How the hell do u guys see white 

im viewing the image on like 4 different devices and its clearly red and pink

like goddamn 

[suikashoujo]

At first I was positive that it was white and gold, but then when I looked at it from a different angle it was blue and black. I'm so confused.

[Abyssal Monkey]

How the hell do u guys see white 

im viewing the image on like 4 different devices and its clearly red and pink

like goddamn 

Geez, I think you might be going insane, its clearly deodorant and popcorn.

[Monmon]

My tiny Asian's eye decided that is white and gold.

[Nosebleed]

Satan Stahp. Pls.

 

The Real Dress is Royal Blue and Black

 

To those who don't see it as that:

 

And even from the girl who took the picture herself:

 

 

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[Eclipsed]

Both are definitely possible and there are various reasons as to why, but just so you know that it is possible to see the colors people are seeing:

Here is the image with max BRIGHTNESS: white+gold


Here is the image with max CONTRAST: blue+black

But yeah the actual dress is blue & black

 

[Nosebleed]

It's all about how the lighting plays out.

 

Even in the max brightness one you posted I see it as blue and black (though it's much more vague). It's all about how people's individual retinas recieve light.

 

Those who see Black and Blue have a good sensitivity to light

Those who see White and Gold have a not so good sensitivity to light

 

Here's what different lighting can do to your eyes' perception of color.

 

 

In the picture above both A and B are the exact same color

[Kaguya]

I can only see white and gold in that dress, doesn't matter the contrast. A and B seem clearly different to me too, in Nosebleed's example.

[Eclipsed]

You mean the letters A and B are same color. or the tiles?!??

if you're telling me that light grey B tile is the same as that dark grey A tile im ganking Flutterz

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nvm i see it

i have been enlightened

LOL

[Nosebleed]

You mean the letters A and B are same color. or the tiles?!??

if you're telling me that light grey B tile is the same as that dark grey A tile im ganking Flutterz

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nvm i see it

i have been enlightened

LOL

The tiles.

 

You can check for yourself if you want.

 

Open either Photoshop or MS Paint and use the Eyedropper tool to detect colors.

Click on Tile A and Tile B and you'll see both have an RGB value of 120, 120, 120

 

I also did this for the Dress which ended up having an RGB value of around 135, 144, 177

Which is a shade of blue

 

No matter where I clicked on the dress in the picture it was always a shade of blue.

 

The black is a little trickier because of the poor lighting, but it ends up with this brownish color thingie

[Eclipsed]

To all the people who see white and gold does the image look washed out to you or something

I cant imagine not seeing any hint of blue

[TheFantasm]

Brown is black now? Didn't get the memo.

[Eclipsed]

Aight 500% Brightness (this is what you people with bad eyes see!!!)

 

And 500% contrast

 

And yeah btw im just jking so dont get offended by the bad eyes comments

[Nosebleed]

Oh and by no means am I disregarding those who see different colors. I know you do see different colors in the picture, because that's just how crappy the lighting is and how easy it is to trick our own eyes.

 

But as far as the real color of the dress, it's undoubtedly, unequivocally, 100% Black and Blue.

 

It was fun to see people's reactions in the first couple hours, but at this point I'm just like:

 

 

Aight 500% Brightness (this is what you people with bad eyes see!!!)

 

And 500% contrast

Now that's a gold and white

 

There's a microscopic hint of blue here and there for me, but the majority is just white.

 

And if you increase the exposure, you can see the Dress is actually a Super Saiyan

 

[arakura]

Both are definitely possible and there are various reasons as to why, but just so you know that it is possible to see the colors people are seeing:

Here is the image with max CONTRAST: blue+black

But yeah the actual dress is blue & black

 

[havoc]

well, i can defintly say i fot bad eyes.

 

But that dress never looked wite and gold to me.

 

To me it looked like this

 

the wite part looks to me like, a slight blue haze is over it like a light was shining on a blue surface behind it.

 

And the gold looks like beige a really dirty color of beige.

 

So why do i end up with colors somewhere imbetween?

 

P.S. i know i got bad eyesight. (-2.00 and -4.25 with a cilinder)

[Sakimichi]

The original owner of the dress:

http://swiked.tumblr.com/post/112164479015/can-we-have-more-pictures-of-the-dress-please-we

To end this farce once and for all!

 

I still see blue and gold :/

Either way, it's the kind of blue that I'd be likely to say 'that would be white if not for the lighting', so im not sure where that leaves me.

 

whatever.

 

Try looking at the picture again by squinting really hard.

[mbl]

Guys it has nothing to do with the quality of your vision, just how you naturally build a context for the lighting. The image's lighting is strange, which leads to people interpreting it differently based on how they are used to reading lighting. People speculate that the difference arises between people used to seeing things under light (white/gold) and people used to seeing things in the dark(blue/black).

[LinovaA]

Welp. Colour me stupid. Looking at this on my phone right now. Guess it really is blue and black.

As you guys said, guess its just our eyes playing tricks on us. Well played dress. Well played.

[cloudy12]

Wow my sister litterally showed me this 30 minutes ago. I saw blue and black.

[TexasDice]

Red-green, obviously. You guys need help.