The "Viral" Colour-Confusion Thing

[monkey man]

Just curious as to what you guys see.

For me, it's white and gold, and I can't imagine how anyone could see black and blue. Apparently 50% of the population thinks otherwise. Sure, the white's tinged with blue, but I perceive that as a lighting-induced effect, namely that we're looking at the "shadow side":



http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liv ... on-8735924

If those who see black compare it with the leading title, "What colour is The Dress and why the confusion?", isn't there a marked difference between the two? How can there not be?

[Luke]

Black and Blue for me.

[monkey man]

Incredible. This blows my mind.

[Phil O]

Are we looking at the same picture? I agree with MM. The white has a blue hue to it, but where's the black? Gold and white for me.

[bayswater]

It is amazing. It's blue and black for me. I don't see a hint of white and gold. Surely someone could scan it with a colour meter? If you sample the picture, what's the RGB spec?

[mikehalloran]

White and gold here.

[bayswater]

Has anyone had two people look at the same screen and see two different colours? My wife saw white on the TV yesterday, and blue on her iPad today.

[FMiguelez]

Black and blue here.

Gold? What did you guys smoke?

If this is how it is with things we see, it must be the same with things we hear too...

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Keep that up, FM, and you'll be seeing a lot more black & blue!

I think the black & blue camp are all candidates for musicology school. You know, people who can read music but can't hear it.

[HCMarkus]

At least we can all agree on one thing: The people who see the dress as white are utterly, completely wrong.

- Wired

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-on ... olor-dress

And then there's this.. the actual dress (down the page):

http://fox6now.com/2015/02/26/theres-a- ... this-dress

[cuttime]

I see a dress that was washed in water that was too hot.

[HobbyCore]

I see a very ugly dress.

[billf]

Try the digital color meter, which indicates RGB values of approximately (103, 96, 88) for the gold area, and (115, 127, 165) for the blue tint area. How people are seeing black may have to do with color sensitivity.

[BKK-OZ]

At least we can all agree on one thing: The people who see the dress as white are utterly, completely wrong.

- Wired

I agree, anyone that sees a black and blue dress is either nuts or lying.

No matter where I have seen the dress (TV, desktop computer, iPad, Youtube) it is always white and gold.
I always have thought that at least half the world is mad, here is some proof.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

If you see black, I see RED! I'll grant you that the "white" looks blue in that light and the gold is more mustard, but black? Really?