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What color is the dress?
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 01 Mar 2015, 12:06 ---Is that really from the dress itself? Because that's blue, but I scroll up and the dress is still white and gold. Argh.
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Yup, I just enlarged a square of it.
Method of Madness:
That is so weird.
Metope:
So my brain has been preparing me to see the dress wrong my whole life?
Metope:
What else am I seeing wrong! AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
LTK:
--- Quote from: Metope on 01 Mar 2015, 12:09 ---
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 01 Mar 2015, 11:52 ---Why? It's not that clear cut, because the brain can do some colour-temperature processing and correction of its own. In the case of this bad photo, the cues for doing that are ambiguous, so some people's processing enables them to reach the blue and black of the dress, while other people's leaves them with the white (with a hint of blue) and gold that are actually the colours in the photo.
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The bold part is what makes it interesting though. I want to know why some people's brains process it one way and other people's brains process it another. What's different in our brains?
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I can't imagine it's caused by anything but pure randomness. I suspect that the initial environment that you saw the picture in makes your brain decide one way or the other 'oh, this looks like it is illuminated by blue light, so I should colour-correct accordingly' and sticks with that decision whenever you see that picture again. Only when there's strong evidence to the contrary does your brain accept the alternative interpretation of 'this is illuminated by white light, so the colours are accurate'. Different people may require different weights of evidence, so even the colour-corrected picture still holds the association of 'this is illuminated in blue light' which is why some people's brains refuse to accept that it is in fact blue in white light, and not white in blue light.
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