Who remembers this?

So people looking at this photograph actually can perceive this to be white and gold? thats utterly wild. And hard to believe.

I still only see white/gold even though the actual dress was black/blue

Because no one has posted the other photos:

And this is a photo of the same dress taken under proper lighting:

I can never see black and blue. I assume all those who claim to see black and blue are bots. fite me

Ok is this post some sort of trick? I opened up lemmy, saw it white and gold for the first time in my life, then I took a shower, now it is blue and black once more.

It appears white/gold to me on it's own, I've never been able to see anything different.

Grabbing this specific image and sampling the colours though; they appear more of a grey/brown colour. I can sorta maybe understand blue, but definitely not black.

This is just using Polish photo editor on android:

10 YEARS AGO?!

For your information : the dress is really blue and black, according to the store and manufacturer. The vast majority of people see it as white and gold, but I personally think most people are not used to decrypting overexposed pictures, hence their inability to perceive the right colors.

I found this image to be a really good way to distill the issue down into the two different modes or perception:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress#/media/File:Wikipe-tan_wearing_The_Dress_reduced.svg

Oh yeah, the gold and white dress. I remember some people were acting crazy saying it is blue and white.

I only see white gold

Literally the entire planet remembers this. Even people who were not born yet.

I see it as dark brownish yellow and blue

When that was going around I saw it as black and blue, and my partner at the time saw it as white and gold. When it was revealed that it was actually the former, I made a comment something like "I guess the difference is I see things as they actually are", which got me a sharp look. :)

whats next? are you gonna post who remembers yanny/laurel? bitch be fr

everyone's wrong, gold and baby blue

Don't forget Laurel and Yani!

I still don’t see either. It looks blue and gold to me

Never understood this one, or believed anyone who said they saw black/blue. You can zoom in and colour pick, the colours are measurable and objectively gold and blue-white.

Just asked my kids (Not around for the first time). One says blue and black/gray and the other said purple and green/gray. I've never known anyone who actually saw it as white and gold. Only heard that people do.

I swear it was blue and black this morning, but now it's white and gold!

I've only ever seen it as blue and black. I can't force it the other way like I could with Laurel and Yani. Y'all seeing white and gold astound me.

I never really understood the debate. In reality, if you were standing in front of the dress it is black and blue. Now, if you take a digital photo of the dress and post it on the internet as a terribly compressed jpg, with weird white balancing, and brightness/contrast turned up and down it is gold and white. The debate isn't really about the reality of the color of the dress but the reality of a badly edited photo.

Black and blue. You blind.

Yes, I do remember ten years ago.

it was obviously blue and yellow.

I remember seeing different colors on different screens, so I think part of the perception difference are the saturation and brightness settings of your screen

ffs now it looks blue and gold. am i dying?

It's pale blue and gold, right?

Blue and gold to me

…shortly after, the internet broke people’s brains though addictive feed algorithms and everyone lost their minds. But then Lemmy was born to restore the internet to an early more fun time. Lemmy just hopes that one day it will have its own dress moment.

the first time ever I see this image, years ago, I could see both white-gold and black-blue. I don't know why I can only see white-gold now.

but assuming the bright light in the back is warm sun light, I think this is why my brain is more accepting that the blue tint is more of a shaded area from the sun, while the base color is white. the yellow-blue contrast

No, what happened is that a bunch of people were shown to be objectively wrong about what color it was, and couldn't let it go.

I remember.

C'mon, it is clearly blue and black 😁

Ten years? I remember clearly that I argued about this on my friends mailing list

It was always black and blue, but I've always found it fun to switch back and forth between which color combination it was. It was also a fun phenomena, but I don't like that it was ten years+ ago now. Time moves a bit too fast.

It’s black and gold. Duh….

ITT: people telling other people they're trolling rather than accepting that humans can perceive reality differently, and the own perception is never objective.

The blue of the dress is pretty obvious, the black details are a different, golden hue due to ambient light. I "know" it's black, but it looks dark gold

10 years? No way

Were people just stupid or something and not capable of knowing when the ambient light and camera is affecting the colour of the image?

WTF is this about people getting exact pixel colours?! The question is what colour is the dress, not the colour of the picture in which the dress is depicted!

Using pixel colour to determine the colour of a dress is like saying Martin Luther King had grey skin because the photo he's depicted in is in black and white!

Thants so cool i finally got to see both color version and how my brain blends between them. For anyone wondering how, I am in a dark room with the phone (darkmode lemmy) and it was looking white gold to me. But when I squish my eyes to darken the incoming screen light and blocking of the right light background with my thumb I could make it fade into blue with black stripes.

It's strange. I'm wearing sunglasses right now and it looks white and gold but when I take them off it looks blue and black.

ARE YOU FR? WHO REMEMBERES THIS? IS THIS A SARCASTIC POST??? SAY SIKE OP

The dress is a bistable picture, similar to the Spinning Dancer, which you can consciously reverse the direction of spin with some practice.

To see the dress as blue-black, I first look at the black dress in the bottom-left corner, then shift gaze to the main dress when colour is established.

To see the dress as white-gold, I first look at the sunny regions on the right, then move gaze across, when the main dress goes to white-gold.

• It may help to cover or mask the opposite region, when focusing on one side.

• For detail, 10 years ago I saw this as white-gold and did not change from that perception. Did not know what all the fuss was about this dress. Today, I saw it as white-gold initially, but 10 minutes later, after two friends saw it as blue-black, I also saw it as blue-black and could not shake it.

This is flicking between white and gold and black and blue each time I scroll past it.

I can sort of change it. Probably just my TN monitor though.

Sorry but it's white and gold. The white only gets a blue hue due to the ambient lighting.

And it never is black!

color constancy was not "first investigated" just ten years ago.

thanks for making me feel old ...

Not this shit again!

I see it obviously blue black, but I have some specific accessibility related colour filters on my screen that might influence this.

I only see white and gold, I don't understand the blue black folks.

I still see both colors alternatingly.

I love the way everyone was saying it was white and gold.

Until the science came out.

And everyone claimed to have always seen blue and black.

The lighter color looks like a blue-ish white, but I can't see anything other than gold for the stripes.

This didn’t “reveal differences in human perception”. Those differences were well known already. What was lacking - and still is, as far as I know - is a good model of human colour perception.

you fools the dress is clearly grey :3

If this "viral dress debate" has taught me anything is that you can claim whatever bullshit online and bunch of people will believe it. Post an orange and claim it's blue even though it's clearly orange and there will be a percentage of idiots who will believe that the orange is blue because someone said so. And we'll have virale debate about a fucking orange.

Of course there are vision conditions like daltonism and we have variances in perceptions of color gradients, but white and gold doesn't suddenly become blue and black...

There was also this bro science take, which is debunked:

When you see white and gold you are happy and when you see black and blue you are depressed.

Article with original photo. Frankly, I see it as blue and gold this morning after I just woke up. I know that I've been able to see both of the other views (limited) when I viewed the photo when I was fully awake, but not right now.

it’s clearly blue and black. and i will force-feed anyone who thinks otherwise seventeen of those turkey legs that your aunt carole would always make for the thanksgiving family potluck when you were a kid and they were always dry as a desert but you never had the heart to tell her that her beloved turkey legs are borderline inedible and are honestly a disgrace to not only the art of cooking but to humanity as a whole.

I can't remember the pairs of colors that are supposed to be. Were blue/black and golden/white?

Always saw it as white/gold first but after a few seconds I perceive it as blue/black and then it stays that way.

On my phone the background of Lemmy (not the photo) is black. And what is clearly gold in the photos doesn't look anything like black.

I know the dress is blue and black and that's what pisses me off. I can't even see blue and black if I try.

It’s white and gold until you do the ice-bucket challenge, then it’s blue and black.

The "color" of a thing is pure perception and often just a genuine personal choice.

It is annoying to think about it like that, but consider:

A movie projected onto a white canvas. Before the movie starts, there is no light projecting onto it and it's just the white canvas.

The movie opening credit comes on. "ALIEN" it says in thin white letters on black background. The projector does not darken the canvas, just add some lines of light forming letters in the middle. Yet we see black.

Is the canvas black or white now? If do when did it change? Is it both? How would you describe that?

People give many answers to this. Most of them based on choice of definition more than objective observation, which I find super interesting.

So fucking stupid. It's black and blue in over exposure. If your brain isn't autocorrecting it... go to a doctor or something.

Everythings black

I currently see blue/light blue and black+gold, but no white. If I remember correctly I never saw white.

Friggin hate that dress.

Even more probable than perception variations is just messed up screen settings

Can't believe it's been 10 years. I'm getting old, and I'm not even 40.

I can see the blue and black clearly when i tilt the phone screen away from my face... I always see white and gold first, even though I know it isn't.