I still have never been able to see white and gold
its because the background gives the impression of bright yellow incandescent lighting but in order to see the dress as white gold you have to assume it's under entirely different (low diffuse white) lighting conditions than the rest of the image implies
There's a great video on how effects like these work.
In contrast, I have never been able to see blue and black, even though that's objectively what it is.
Ever since I learned it was blue and black my brain won't let me see it as white and gold or whatever anymore
Same. Hated it at the time because "but is clearly black and blue" with me just getting upset because it doesn't matter what it objectively is, I'm being asked what I'm seeing and it's only white and gold for me. And still is.
I dreamed of throwing all those dresses into the sun
What's that to you:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/The_dress_blueblackwhitegold.jpg
I still have never been able to see blue and black
What about in the left in OP?
"they're the same picture"
This picture made me feel incredibly weird. I see blue and brownish - we can call it gold. Like, I see the same colors you'll see if you do an average color extraction over the image using an image processor. There's no color illusion for me at all. The whole world went mad in two camps and I'm in neither.
You're in the blue and black camp. I get what you mean, it's sort of a yellowish brown, but that's why the illusion is there in the first place. Some people's brains adjust it to a more yellow color instead of more of a black/dark brown.
I appreciate your answer. But aren't you just in my camp, maybe? If some people in the blue/black camp see a yellowish brown, why do they call it black? And why do they insist it's the only way the image could be interpreted?
What struck me about the whole thing was how people seemingly could not fathom how the colors could be seen as anything other than what they personally saw/interpreted. Were some of them exaggerating, do you think?
Oh hey, I just listened to a thing about this!
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tl;dl
People who get up early tend to see the dress as white and gold, because their mind is used to resolving ambiguous colors using the context of early morning lighting.
People who stay up late tend to see it as blue and black (the true colors), because their mind is used to resolving ambiguous colors in the context of evening indoor lighting.
Yes we already know morning people are brain damaged
I never really thought much of it just a 'huh, it looks white ans gold to me' then i realized ive had a blue light filter on my computer and phone for a long time and its heavily skewed into red. Turns out turning that off helped me see it as blue and black. Who knew
Stg i saw gold/white on left first, then after looking at the right one for a bit it just switched to the classic blue/black ive always seen. I hate this picture so damm much
I see a black/blue on the right and a dusty black/blue on the left.
The only time I could see it as white/gold was the first few times I watched this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xLxVZ8W-aHY
It's been a while, maybe I'll try again.
Edit: nope, doesn't work anymore. Maybe it was the smaller phone I used back then that helped.
It definitely says yanny
I'm guessing the dude on the right is a Voss, but what's the one on the left? Just really pale?
This comment needs a trigger warning
The one on the right is Thrawn
They're the same picture
Definitely not colourful enough for a Voss
The dress on the left has put in amazing service over the years, and even it's getting a bit threadbare it can be a nice part of the right ensemble. The one on the right seems great in drawings and text descriptions, but just sorta hangs there limply once it's actually delivered.
