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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
Isn’t it because your brain assumes the dress is in the shadow and only lit by the ambient light from the sky. Hence why the brain color corrects the blue to white since ambient light from the sky is slightly blue.
Yeah you’d have to perceive it as being lit from sunlight under shade, cloud cover, or possibly a skylight. I doubt it has much to do with an intuitive understanding of rayleigh scattering and more just that, in person, your brain would have more temporal context and a wider visual field to model the lighting with than what the image gives you. The floor and the ceiling would be blue in your peripheral and you’d have more angles and depth perception to work with so the distance between and relative strength of the yellow light and white light source would be more obvious.
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
I still have never been able to see blue and black
What's that to you:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/The_dress_blueblackwhitegold.jpg
blue and black. Don't see how it could be white 🤷♀️
And I don't see how it could be blue and black...
Well, ok, that's not entirely true, I can see how in GIMP:
The colors are basically exactly in between white/gold and blue/black respectively.
And I can see a very, very faint blue tint on the white, just as it "should be", according to GIMP. But it doesn't click to another color entirely for me, especially not pitch black and dark blue.
It doesn't look like dark blue. Which is interesting-- the color it appears to be is about as far from dark blue as it is from white. But, correcting for the harsh glare, it's blue (as we now know it really is).
Oh, I assumed dark blue and pitch black because of the image in the post.
And it's debatable wherever that can be considered blue or gold. Both are objectively very faint/light, apparently.
What I mean is, the physical dress is blue+black
The image on the right is a recreation of what it would have looked like if the lighting wasn't the way it was.
Here's an actual image of the real colors.
It's blue and black
What about in the left in OP?
