What color is this dress?

[lyonssv]

Simple question. What color(s) is the dress?

[EmperorWu]

God damn it you too. XD White and gold.

[lyonssv]

^^^

Lol man that dress is black and blue. My friends at work said white and gold and it's driving me nuts!

[EmperorWu]

Yeah it's pretty crazy. Our lunch room got pretty rowdy over what color it really was. Someone was going to get stabbed. I guess only 25% see blue and black. Your eyes are broken brother.

[Viazon]

This shit has been all over my Facebook page and it's been driving me nuts!

It's fucking gold and white.

[Twister]

I am so confused by this. Sometimes I'm seeing white and gold, other times I'm seeing black and blue. What IS this witchcraft???

Edit: when I posted this it was white and gold, now it's black and blue. WTF.

[SortaCreative]

I am so confused by this. Sometimes I'm seeing white and gold, other times I'm seeing black and blue. What IS this witchcraft???

"Light enters the eye through the lens—different wavelengths corresponding to different colors. The light hits the retina in the back of the eye where pigments fire up neural connections to the visual cortex, the part of the brain that processes those signals into an image. Critically, though, that first burst of light is made of whatever wavelengths are illuminating the world, reflecting off whatever you’re looking at. Without you having to worry about it, your brain figures out what color light is bouncing off the thing your eyes are looking at, and essentially subtracts that color from the “real” color of the object.

Usually that system works just fine. This image, though, hits some kind of perceptual boundary. That might be because of how people are wired. Human beings evolved to see in daylight, but daylight changes color. That chromatic axis varies from the pinkish red of dawn, up through the blue-white of noontime, and then back down to reddish twilight. “What’s happening here is your visual system is looking at this thing, and you’re trying to discount the chromatic bias of the daylight axis,” says Bevil Conway, a neuroscientist who studies color and vision at Wellesley College. “So people either discount the blue side, in which case they end up seeing white and gold, or discount the gold side, in which case they end up with blue and black.”"



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And I see the dress as gold and white.

[DBSoT]

Somewhere there is a color blind person screaming "Now you all know how it feels!"

[Everlong]

I don't understand where people are seeing white and gold with this thing! It's obviously blue and black.

[Str8Shooter]

I don't understand where people are seeing white and gold with this thing! It's obviously blue and black.

Wrong. White and Gold, I'm disappointed in you Tim

[PorkChop]

If I try hard enough, I can see it as blue and black. At first glance though, I saw it as white and gold.

[Everlong]

You people are weird

[SKS]

I see blue and gold.

[Str8Shooter]

I see blue and gold.

I knew you were a Bomber fan!!

[JPG619]

God damn it you too. XD White and gold.

Yeah that what I think, I am getting bombarded with this pic all over facebook

[lyonssv]

Some people just like to watch the world burn...

[Daz]

Does nobody else see it as red and yellow?

[Hanley!]

Does nobody else see it as red and yellow?

Hulk Hogan does.

[Ali]

The frickin' dress is Fuschia and Atomic Green.

[War Daddy]

ISIS is in Indianapolis and everyone is worried about a fuckin' dress.

It's gold & white, anyone who says otherwise is dumb.