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The Other Castro
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« on: February 26, 2015, 08:53:45 PM »



This is going around online and it's freaking me out how some people see white/gold but others see blue/black.
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« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2015, 09:12:00 PM »

I don't understand where the blue/black is coming from???
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« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2015, 09:19:43 PM »
« Edited: February 26, 2015, 09:21:40 PM by NE Lt. Governor Griffin »

Blue and black, duh. Huh

EDIT: MY MOM JUST SAID GOLD AND WHITE WTF
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« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2015, 09:20:08 PM »

I see only the blue and black. Colour perception can be weird sometimes.
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« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2015, 09:21:18 PM »

Blue and black.
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« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2015, 09:32:30 PM »

Objectively white and gold
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« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2015, 09:43:40 PM »

White and gold when just looking at it normally. When I squint I see blue and black.
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« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2015, 10:40:14 PM »

I see white and gold, but I can understand the people saying blue -- it may be very light blue.

I don't see black at all though -- it's very obviously gold in the stripes. (?)
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« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2015, 10:44:35 PM »

Chocolate brown and faded blue/lilac
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« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2015, 10:45:50 PM »

It only looks blue and black to me if my tilt my screen back.
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« Reply #10 on: February 26, 2015, 10:56:07 PM »

Oh for [Inks]'s sake I've gotten enough of this sh**t on tumblr.

The correct answer is 'blue and black but hanging in a really weirdly lit room', by the way.
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« Reply #11 on: February 26, 2015, 10:58:36 PM »

I have been shown this 4 times already and each time (on a phone screen 3 of these times), it was white and gold. This must be a different picture or I am actually weirded out because that's clearly blue and black no matter how I tilt my screen.
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« Reply #12 on: February 26, 2015, 11:02:51 PM »

I see white and gold. Freaky!
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« Reply #13 on: February 26, 2015, 11:04:34 PM »

I can't say for sure what the dark color is, it might not quite be black, but that other has to be blue.
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« Reply #14 on: February 26, 2015, 11:05:08 PM »
« Edited: February 26, 2015, 11:07:13 PM by Harry »

Are you really seeing the stripes as black??

I can kinda see a blue tint -- my assumption at first glance was that the dress is in shadow and probably is a little lighter in real life, but if it's not the case, it could be a light blue -- but I see the gold stripes as plain as day...


EDIT: Apparently Vox agrees with me: (not that that's always a good sign Sad )
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« Reply #15 on: February 26, 2015, 11:16:59 PM »

It appears that the dress is this one. (Obviously I didn't find this myself; it is circulating on the internet.) Look at the lace pattern and the sequence of stripes; they match exactly. There seems to some sort of separate shawl over the shoulders in the disputed photo. The dress does come in some other colours but all of them have black stripes; there is no white and gold version available.

To me this is totally unsurprising; the photo is obviously of a blue and black dress. But I would be interested to see a serious scientific optical explanation of what's going on.
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« Reply #16 on: February 26, 2015, 11:26:21 PM »

Are you really seeing the stripes as black??

I can kinda see a blue tint -- my assumption at first glance was that the dress is in shadow and probably is a little lighter in real life, but if it's not the case, it could be a light blue -- but I see the gold stripes as plain as day...


EDIT: Apparently Vox agrees with me: (not that that's always a good sign Sad )


So where's the white?

It is blowing my mind that you guys are seeing white and gold here.

Castro, this needs to be a poll.
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« Reply #17 on: February 26, 2015, 11:29:53 PM »

So just to clarify, you really see black and not gold? That's just unimaginable to me...
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« Reply #18 on: February 26, 2015, 11:31:18 PM »

This dress has literally driven me to do a follower cleanout.
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« Reply #19 on: February 26, 2015, 11:32:31 PM »

So just to clarify, you really see black and not gold? That's just unimaginable to me...

It's black in bad lighting.  The fact that the dress is literally blue and black in real life kind of proves that.

Again, where is the white?
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« Reply #20 on: February 26, 2015, 11:34:42 PM »

So just to clarify, you really see black and not gold? That's just unimaginable to me...

It's black in bad lighting.  The fact that the dress is literally blue and black in real life kind of proves that.

Again, where is the white?

Like I said a few posts ago, I think people are assuming the dress is in shadow, and a white dress in shadow would look like that in a photograph.

If you instead assume that the dress in bathed in bright light (which it apparently is), I can see how it might be blue.

Still not seeing any black though, even when I adjust my assumption for bright light.
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« Reply #21 on: February 26, 2015, 11:34:50 PM »

So just to clarify, you really see black and not gold? That's just unimaginable to me...

It's black in bad lighting.  The fact that the dress is literally blue and black in real life kind of proves that.

Again, where is the white?

where your blue is.
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« Reply #22 on: February 26, 2015, 11:46:12 PM »

White and gold.
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« Reply #23 on: February 26, 2015, 11:49:38 PM »
« Edited: February 26, 2015, 11:53:45 PM by NE Lt. Governor Griffin »

Are you really seeing the stripes as black??

I can kinda see a blue tint -- my assumption at first glance was that the dress is in shadow and probably is a little lighter in real life, but if it's not the case, it could be a light blue -- but I see the gold stripes as plain as day...


EDIT: Apparently Vox agrees with me: (not that that's always a good sign Sad )


OK that looks white and gold to me but the original picture is clearly blue and black

EDIT - SO I JUST CAME BACK TO IT AND NOW EVERYTHING LOOKS WHITE AND GOLD BUT I CAN STILL SORTA SEE IT AS BLACK AND BLUE AT THE SAME TIME WTF IS WRONG WITH ME
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« Reply #24 on: February 26, 2015, 11:56:10 PM »

Seems pretty clear to me that the stripes are infrared and ultraviolet.
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