What color is this dress?

[Amnorix]

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

“Your eyes have retinas, the things that let you interpret color. There’s rods, round things, and cones that stick out, which is what gives your eye a textured appearance in the colored part. The “cones” see color. The “rods” see shade, like black, white and grey. Cones only work when enough light passes through. So while I see the fabric as white, someone else may see it as blue because my cones aren’t responding to the dim lighting.

My rods see it as a shade (white).

There’s three cones: small, medium and large. They are blue sensitive, green sensitive, and red sensitive.

As for the black bit (which I see as gold), it’s called additive mixing. Blue, green and red are the main colors for additive mixing. This is where it gets really tricky. Subtractive mixing, such as with paint, means the more colors you add the murkier it gets until its black. ADDITIVE mixing, when you add the three colors the eyes see best, red, green and blue, (not to be confused with primary colors red, blue and yellow) it makes pure white.

—Blue and Black: In conclusion, your retina’s cones are more high functioning, and this results in your eyes doing subtractive mixing.

—White and Gold: our eyes don’t work well in dim light so our retinas rods see white, and this makes them less light sensitive, causing additive mixing, (that of green and red), to make gold.”

Read more at http://thechive.com/2015/02/26/the-i...F4WuqlV55Cx.99

[Katipan]

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

[Rudy tossed tigger's salad]

Originally Posted by Katipan

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

Your perception is slanted

[Katipan]

Originally Posted by Rudy lost the toss

Your perception is slanted

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.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Amnorix

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

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?

[BigMeatballDave]

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

[booger]

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

[Reaper16]

[Red Beans]

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

Bunk.

[Katipan]

I don't think he cared if you cared.

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by Red Beans

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

Bunk.

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

[BigMeatballDave]

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

[Katipan]

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.

[Beef Supreme]

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.

[CoMoChief]

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.