Is that cookie tweet referencing The Dress??(https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/the-internet-is-freaking-out-over-the-color-of-this-dress-6.jpg?w=600&h=232)
Well it's sold on Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Roman-Womens-Detail-Bodycon-Dress/dp/B00SJEUCWU) as blue, the picture they have up is unmistakably blue an black, and it's confirmed that it's the right dress, so that's how we know. I just don't see it in the original picture at all. Mindfuck!
It's actually emitting hard X-rays and the blue is Cerenkov radiation. Anyone who looks at it (and especially anyone who posts yet more pictures of it) is going to die horribly of radiation poisoning.Before you die, you see the dress.
Fuck that dress.That's Bill Clinton's job!
Clearly I shouldn't have started this in the first place.
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?
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.
Still totally white and gold to me.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.
Now what does it look like?
(https://cassland.org/images/DressCorrectedMasked.jpg)
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.
Is that really from the dress itself? Because that's blue, but I scroll up and the dress is still white and gold. Argh.
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.
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?
What else am I seeing wrong! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAI find this especially fascinating since you're a painter.
Is there a special trick to see the dress as white and gold or is it the kind of thing that if you don't see it, you're out of luck?? I'm strangely fascinated by this dumb thing too lolIf you don't see it in white and gold, well, your eyes are working correctly.
I meant that I couldn't see the dress as anything but blue. The dress that is supposed to look white in the XKCD "explanation" cartoon looks blue to me. Sure, it looks less intensely blue with the dark blue background, but it doesn't look white to me. I even went to the length of filling in the burned-out highlight areas in the photo with the dark blue Randall Munroe uses, and the dress still looks blue! This debate makes me think I'm going potty.
Blue and black...also, I must have missed the one at the top of the page. The dress on the left is white and gold, the dress on the right is...white and black? I mean, I could believe the white is blue, but not really.
The coffee doesn't REALLY taste any different, but the chemicals in your head are LYING TO YOU! You can't count on your own brain to present an objective version of reality!
Metope, care to do this test for us? http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge (Everyone else is obviously invited as well):-(
Being invulnerable to illusion seems like it ought to be a good thing from a Buddhist's point of view.Heh... :laugh: It's supposed to be the whole point.
Metope, care to do this test for us? http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge (Everyone else is obviously invited as well)
Metope, care to do this test for us? http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge (Everyone else is obviously invited as well)I apparently got 23. I have no idea if that's a good score or not.
Green fight purple!
You see between 33 and 39 colors: you are a tetrachromat, like bees, and have 4 types of cones (in the purple/blue, green, red plus yellow area). You are irritated by yellow, so this color will be nowhere to be found in your wardrobe. 25% of the population is tetrachromat.
I don't know if it matters, but I have a macbook pro retina, these screens are pretty great. i assume crappy screens might give people different results.
How many colors people can see. (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/25-people-have-4th-cone-see-colors-p-prof-diana-derval) I can see 39. And now I'm curious how many you all can see. Especially those that are having issues with that dang dress.
How many colors people can see. (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/25-people-have-4th-cone-see-colors-p-prof-diana-derval) I can see 39. And now I'm curious how many you all can see. Especially those that are having issues with that dang dress.Snopes is your friend. (http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/tetrachromacy.asp) Your computer screen doesn't have the capability of showing the colors required to test for tetrachromacy, and there has only been one genuine confirmed case.
It's actually emitting hard X-rays and the blue is Cerenkov radiation. Anyone who looks at it (and especially anyone who posts yet more pictures of it) is going to die horribly of radiation poisoning.Before you die, you see the dress.