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

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      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.

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      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.

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      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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      I just forced myself to. Kinda turned my phone away at an angle and tried covering the right side of the pic and forced myself to see it as blue and black. Then I couldn’t stop seeing it unless I did a mental reset.

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      It’s weird, back when this was trending, I always saw it as white and gold, but, looking at the picture above on my phone, it does kinda look blue and black

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      I’ve seen both. The first time, the colors changed as I was looking at it. That was freaky

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    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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    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

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      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

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    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

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      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.

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          What the fuck just happened to me? It was white and gold, I took a screenshot – I go back, it’s black and blue, and the screenshot is too.

          Is this just a JPEG bug?

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        i envy the perspective of a white/gold person.

        i had this ex, one time she was driving and we were stopped at a light. she asks me “did you see that car?” and i hadn’t, so i said as much. she continued “there was no one driving it.”

        now the way my brain works is, even though i didn’t even see the car, i know there had to be a driver. she died on the hill that there couldn’t have been a driver because she didn’t see one.

        coincidentally a few years later she was also a white/gold person.

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        If you look at the very top of the dress in the middle, and use a color picker from your favorite image editing tool, the color of those pixels are a brownish gold.

        That is part of the reason why some of us see it as white and gold.

        Alternately, if you take a color picker to the sleeve part of the dress, the color of those pixels are a light blue.

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          Colorpicker bullshit means nothing, our eyes adapt to the lighting the computer does not. You can clearly see in the photo that the setting has harsh bright lights with a yellow tint. What used clothing store would have dim blue lighting anyways?

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      Same here.

      I’ve never understood what these folks were arguing about.

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        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.

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    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.