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What color is the dress?
pwhodges:
Look, it's really simple:
On the right is a dress (catalogue image); on the left is a photo taken with a camera whose white balance got screwed up. Whether the pale colour is seen as white or pale blue is just an accident of the surrounding conditions. There's no magic properties to the left-hand image - it's simply a really bad photo of the dress.
Metope:
So why do the surrounding conditions make me see it as white and my mom and sis see it as blue, when they are the same surrounding conditions? Of course it's not magic, it's just an extreme case of optical illusion, it's just really fascinating that different brains register it so differently. It's completely impossible for my brain to register the bad photo as blue, just like it's completely impossible for other people to register it as white. I know it's simple, but it's also super interesting to me.
The Seldom Killer:
I would imagine the disparity in opinion is based around individual rod and cone density combined with comparative neurological function.Intresting and relative fact; a degree of blueness can make objects seem whiter. Blueing agents have been added to laundry detergents for a long time hence the claim of whiter than white being used and also accurate hence never banned in adverts.
From my own perspective, the dress was originally perceived as pale blue and beige. I've got pretty shoddy eyes though.
pwhodges:
I corrected the white balance, taking account of the fact that the camera's error caused differing saturation in the colour channels. This was about a minute's work on the original faulty photo:
Note that the white background, though dirty, is not distinctly coloured either (I could probably improve that with another minute of fiddling)..
Metope:
Wait, so am I supposed to see it as blue and black now? Because it still looks white to me, only in a dark room.
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