What color is this dress?
 

Is that a picture you took? If so, could you find worse lighting to take the picture?

Judging from that, I'd say white and brown.

I knew some asshole would bring this up!

My wife just got done yelling at me that it's black/blue when I clearly see white/gold. I really don't understand this so hopefully one of CP's scientists can clear this up.

No, it's going around the internet today and a bunch of idiots say it's black and blue.

Can you accurately and succinctly state what this is about? Something about it showing up somehow different on the Photoshop palette? Is that it, or does it actually show up different on different monitors? I've seen it all over, but they just ask the question, like you did here.

And FTR, I see a very lightly bluish ivory and a medium saddle tan/brown.

I could see maybe a really really light blue, but that trim is definitely not black. You can see a shine in some spots as it reflects off the light.

Thats just horrible lighting and the camera underexposing because of the background light.

If I scroll down and put only the bottom half of the dress on the screen, it's blue/black. If I have the whole dress in the middle of the screen it's white/gold.

Voted blue with black lace but the lace is brown. Dress is definitely blue

saw this posted on facebook don't know if it's true.

http://i.imgur.com/AClqltZ.jpg

I tried making myself angry and it didn't change colors and I didn't turn into the incredible hulk either.

That's not true. The dress is actually black and blue, IRL. The lighting is just god awful.

http://i.imgur.com/lp3MT53.jpg

I have seen this a couple of times today and it is never the same.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5006363160.jpghttp://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...5006363191.jpg

If that trim is black then I've lost all sense of reality.

Crazy... It keeps changing!

I can't do anything to see it as blue and black even though I know it actually is. How do you make it change?

You wearing it to your next interview?

I've yet to see a picture of any of those dresses people are saying it is paired with a vest.

I still cant wrap my head around that dress being that "white" in the picture from that dark blue.

From what I know of whites on a really brightly lit white background it will underexpose on the "proper exposure" reading according to the camera and make the white look light it's a slight grey.

http://www.better-digital-photo-tips...osed-image.jpg

Holy shit, it changed for me. It was white or very light blue/gold. Then I saw the dress in post #10, scrolled back up to the OP and it changed to blue/black. Very dramatic change. I'm trying to make it change back but can't get it to change. Best optical illusion I've seen in a while.

I was waiting for this thread. It's been about 104% of my Twitter feed tonight.

For the record, I think it's white and gold.

Here's a fairly quick and dirty approximation of the colors I see

You might tone it down a bit and roll some pumps. Maybe a bead necklace too. If the interview is a success you can have your new boss shove your beads in your ass and pull them out like he is starting a chainsaw

I agree with the color palette

It can actually appear different to the same person on the same monitor.

The dress is definitely blue. Wired has solved it.

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science...s-color-dress/

Those people should visit an eye doctor ASAP.

Good to know my eyes aren't stupid.

Yes, but your taste in professional sports teams and college teams is stupid. :evil:

Agreed :(

It's a trick.

Clearly blue and black.

Not far off

http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uplo...wn-660x748.png

I'm seeing black on the bottom two
but I never really felt reality was an important part of my life

I AM A CHIEFS FAN,
WE GET A TACKLE IN THE FIRST ROUND

That dress will make you look fat, Buck.

I wasnt talking about those dresses.

I just posted those as a response to the people showing the really dark blue dress as "the one." The company that makes the so called dress in question does in fact make different colored variants.

ok, so how does ANYONE see it as white and gold????

I have looked at the various versions and I see it as either blue and black or light blue and some whited out black or grey with AT MOST some gold highlights.

The part that boggles my mind is that some people see WHITE? I see nothing close to white. Are my eyes screwed up or yours?

I said white simply because I know what happens to white through the eyes of a camera when it's compensating for a bright background.

Looks satin white with flash behind it. Someone else posted the black version. There are different pictures edited.

more than likely it is light blue, but lighting is messing it up. The other photo i saw is edited to black.

I can see white as compensation WAY before I see royal blue. And while the tan is a plausible compensation for gold, I cannot see that fringe as black for the life of me.

The colors I see objectively are attached, with a slight alteration to the R128 G110 B70 tan mix listed at the top of the photo from wired.

Client: Can you faux paint my walls like the color in this photo?

Me:No

Finally saw it as blue and black. Once I was able to convince my brain to see the white as blue, the gold turned black.

:clap:

**** and this.

Those are the colors of that dress.

In the original picture, it's clearly gold and white, though the white has a bluish tint to it.

You think the dress is white and gold?

(psst... cataracts...)

https://40.media.tumblr.com/3d94e0fc...gplio1_500.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/aKPmTXX.jpg

http://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiakoern...ers#.vdlNAjGv1


https://31.media.tumblr.com/ec387ec0...AuH1svicb3.jpg

And she confirmed that the dress was indeed the royal blue body con from Roman Originals, as BuzzFeed suspected.

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2015...25006448-3.jpg

I just looked at this post, then looked at the original. The pic in the original was now clearly blue and black. I looked for an edit message cause it looked like a completely new pic, but it was the original. But, now it's back to white and gold.

Lighting certainly makes the difference.

Messes with your Rods and Cones.

If it ain't red and gold I don't care.

This is exactly what I see.

And this is why 'good' lighting and 'bad' lighting matter.

Something I'm sure women understand more than men.

This is going to appear differently on different devices. I first looked at this on my phone and it looks different on my plasma TV.

No shit, it changed from white/gold to blue/black for me as well after seeing the catalog picture. I guess that once my brain "knew" what the actual dress looks like, it modified the way I perceive the light in the original.

Brains are pretty ****ing cool.

I should get one! I see it as white/gold but if I look at the blue/black and scroll back up one time it stayed but generally it starts blue at the bottom and then as I see the whole pic it merges back to white/gold :#

It doesn't really matter what the color is as long as you feel pretty in it. CP supports your life choice.

I'm holding off until I hear what Bruce Jenner has to say about it.

Mine apparently. WHITE and GOLD. And I have no idea how anyone sees black/blue there.

Apparently it has to do with the rods in our eyes that detect color. If nobody else has posted that bit, I will.

So this is the explanation. No idea if true, but seems ot make sense. Pretty surprising.

I just want to say that I mentioned Rods and Cones first. :D

I never saw blue or gold. I saw white dress with black trim in bad lighting.

Your perception is slanted

On my tablet it was clearly white and gold, but on my phone it's a muted blue and bronze. Or maybe as amnorix explained, I was looking in two different lighting environments.

Wonder what color it would look like wrinkled up laying on the floor next to my bed

That's interesting, because I have very good color vision, but I see white and gold for the most part. So maybe I only have very good color vision in good light?

:thumb: ha. ha. ha.

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It is extraordinarily ugly as it exists in blue and black. It's ok as white and black. Whatever gold you people are seeing must be jewelry.

Where the hell is the "Shits were given?" option on the poll?

Bunk.

I don't think he cared if you cared.

I'm looking at the pic now, in the OP on my phone in sunlight and its clearly blue and black now.

This thread has absolutely nothing to do with a dress and everything to do with Science now.

The problem is that is exactly what a white dress in an artificial material could look like in the shade.

It's like seeing a picture of a dog and someone tells you it was really a cat.

Could have been a dog.

I saw blue and black and nothing but blue and black. I might could be convinced that the black I see is gold with bad lighting, because of the shadows up around the collar area. But I see blue and black.

Up until about a few mins ago...all I saw was white and gold. Then it changed colors on me and I now do see what people are talking about when they see Black and Blue.

Then it switched back to white and gold again. Trippy ass shit maaaaaaaaan.

Holy shit, now it's black and blue! I thought this viral thing was so stupid, but it really is crazy.

White and gold all day.

All morning, it was clearly white and gold. Now, I can't figure out how I ever saw white and gold.

Same here.

This is the correct answer. I think the whole black and blue thing is internet hysteria, like the witch trials and stuff. A few of us are standing strong with the truth.

The dress is so obviously Blue and black. How in the world are people seeing white and gold?

You're yielding to peer pressure. Don't knuckle under to internet bullies. It's white and gold.

I'm a guy.

Who cares?