What Colors Are This Dress?

[I.Devastation 2,053]

Blue and gold ok

[Nightingale 70]

Yes, it's definitely a close-up of Aramid.

[blackopspaul 753]

Ohh I don't know how people solve this....

[Phoenix-Warbird 1,329]

OMG PLZ STOP it with this silly dressssssss

It's been haunting me!!!!!!!

[The.Skilled.Legend 1,459]

 

Found off Wired.

 

Original pic is in the middle. I see it as White and gold but it's actually Blue and Black.

Edited February 27, 2015 by The.Skilled.Legend

[Nightingale 70]

What I like, only after saturated news and media coverage, is the world is a little bit smarter because of this picture. I mean I did know we all see colours differently but to what extent, to this extent, I had no real understanding.

[LaLisa_My_Queen 271]

The picture you are looking at is white and gold, thats because of the background or the light. If you look at the real dress its black and blue. Anyways I still see it as light blue and black, real dress is darker blue and black. Thats because of where the light is. It also depend on your mood. Some people saw it white and gold, and in few minutes they saw it as blue and black.

 

 

(It's amazing/insane on how this is known by everyone in a day.)

[The.Skilled.Legend 1,459]

^ True

 

It also effects the brain and the eye and how it transmits the information so our brains work differently right? So one brain when viewing the image with your eye then transmits info to your brain  and it may think it as White and Gold or Blue and Back.

 

The position of where the photo is taken and if the lighting e.t.c and if it's fake or not.

 

By all means both answers are correct because it depends on the brain of which perspective someone sees it. 

[LaLisa_My_Queen 271]

^ Yea, thanks for adding that. :D

[Vikingsrallentando 3,058]

Its actually Orange & Blanco y Black & Azul. Its a conspiracy. You're welcome.

[Bem 521]

Guys, I'm confuzzled..

[Papaya14 481]

Confirmed, it's black and blue. And it's impossible for me to see it any other way. How are you all seeing it as white and gold? That is clearly blue!!!

[beaku 2,656]

You know what, I have had hours of discussion on this and I have always seen it BLUE and GOLD. Please add that in the poll.

[lukey0 27,543]

It's to do with light I think.

 

But it was originally made black and blue, but I see white and gold.  :lol:

[Thordaran 416]

I see it has gold and white  :huh:

[GeneticallyModified 15]

it may not be either of the colour ranges stated in your question

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/light/Lesson-2/Light-Absorption,-Reflection,-and-Transmission

[jokersus.cava 1,503]

Blue and Gold I see :mellow:

[BlitzPanzer12345 241]

brown and little violet mixed with white

Argh.. I going to become colour blind

[SmexyGiraffe 584]

[LaLisa_My_Queen 271]

 

Hahahaha

[Cute_re 582]

the girls = white and gold 

mans = blue and black 

 

i see it black and blue : D 

[splitterpoint 10,986]

 

Everyone looks at color in a different way, especially males and females.

It depends on how your eyes react to the wavelength of each color.

This has little to do with our ratios of red and green cones. It's true that there are subtile changes in these ratios.

But these physical differences don't produce an effect large enough to explain the dramatically different perceptions here.

 

Instead, it seems what we are experiencing is an example of top-down processing, where we see what our brain expects, such as in the case of this optical illusion where the two colored squares are actually identical. 

 

 

Both the colored circles and the background squares on which they sit are identically colored, but context fools us.

This video that was posted in this topic already explains it further. 

 

our brain starts to make interpretations about the light falling on it. If people envisage that it’s located in, say, a room lit by blueish natural daylight, perhaps near a window, they may see it as white and yellow because our brain tries to remove the blue as a possible shadow. Alternatively, some may picture it under artificial lights, like those found in shops, and so they see it as blue, which is indeed the true color of the dress.

 

Still, it's not entirely clear what it is about the colors of the dress and the lighting that cause it to hit a sweet spot that divides the community so drastically.

 

[trombone_ftw 734]

It's white and gold. There are multiple pictures with different lighting. The pictures with it in a shadow make it look black and blue, but it's just the shadow over the white and gold.

[eminemrapgod 16]

:lol: it still looks white and gold to me :lol:

[Royalworld 1,269]

Idk why but it keeps changing for me. Sometimes, it looks blue-black. Sometimes, light blue and dark gold and sometimes white gold.
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Any possible reasons for this? 

Edited February 28, 2015 by Royalworld