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The Dress.

What is the color of this dress?

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 63 points 2 years ago

I love that it was so "everywhere' they even animated it into American Dad

[–] Andonyx@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Was anyone ever able to see it as both like one of those perspective illusions? I can only see it as white and gold.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It was white and gold when I opened the post. I use dark mode in Lemmy. Then I opened Wikipedia and read about it for a few minutes in light mode. When I came back, the dress was black and blue suddenly.

I can't usually switch it on command, but it does switch for me.

And as of posting this and looking at Lemmy in dark mode, it's white and gold again.....

....and now it's blue and brown.

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

ive seen it as both. it depends on several factors (brightness of screen, environment, eyes). basically how your eye adapts with the picture.

the picture was taken with the perfect conditions in order for the problem to be a real problem (lit dress with an overly blown out background light) to cause eye adaption to trigger for some and not others.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

I've never seen it as anything but white and gold.

[–] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Try squinting. I see white and gold normally but blue and black when I squint.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years ago

I cannot at all see the white. I can see it as blue and gold (from the top) but from the bottom, it definitely looks more like black and blue to me.

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[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Augh, not this again! It was clearly white and gold when I opened this thread. Scrolled through comments, and now I can only see it as blue and black. Damn it, messing with my mind man!!!

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[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Did you know that the husband of this woman from the viral photo went to prison because he tried to kill her?

Edit: they were married

[–] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Did we need to? That's like the most "anyway" piece of info ever

Anyway, can you believe people see white n gold here? And we just let these freaks live among us??

Seriously though, I had never once considered the people that shared the image. And likely never will again so kudos lol

[–] gregor 7 points 2 years ago

That's interesting

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago
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[–] yuri@pawb.social 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The dress can make you feel crazy if you’re talking to someone who sees the other colors, but this diagram from the wiki page makes me feel like i’m having a goddamn stroke just by looking at it.

they’re clearly not the same co- HOW ARE THEY THE SAME COLOR

[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

What i dont get is that there is clearly no dim blue light where the picture was taken. By the background you can see everything is lit up plain as day. White-gold people are absolutely zonked for thinking that.

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's totally white and gold

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[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 17 points 2 years ago

Blue and yanny.

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think I've ever seen it as anything but black and blue.

[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm colorblind this pic doesn't have power here

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Oh so we're going to have an argument for dinner?

Ban all of the trolls on team blue/black

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The famous red and green dress

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[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Someone bust out the hex code color picker...

[–] gregor 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hell yea, please do. I need the results

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It's been done; it's a grayish blue and a dark goldish brown. The lighting really messes with the coloring. Iirc the actually dress was discovered to be blue and black at some point.

[–] scrion@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

You are right, it was in fact blue and black:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress

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[–] Logical@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

For me it was always light blue and brownish gold. Which is a shame, because that's a much less nice-looking color combination than either of the other two.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

Still blue after all these years

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A global phenomenon from 2015 counts as nostalgia?

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That is nearly a decade ago

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 13 points 2 years ago

Which is like real world centuries in internet years.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can see it as both at the same time now and i don’t like it.

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[–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

A true blue post. 💙

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

It's very obviously white and gold.

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