OT - White and Gold, no?

[pfister1]

Definitely white and gold... what do you think?

 

[jekelish]

How can anyone think that's white and gold?

 

[pfister1]

How can anyone think that's white and gold?

What? You mean its gold and white?

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Great. Another uniform thread. :bang:

 

[Ghost]

Light blue, and a brown hue in that pic.

I've also seen it white and gold.

I've also seen it as blue and black.

 

[obliterata]

light blue and brown to these eyes, I've never seen white and gold or blue and black

 

[NineOneSeven]

 

[Digger]

How can anyone think that's white and gold?

Haha. Agreed, but the other camp would say the reverse. It really is just a remarkable example of how brains can perceive the same stimulus in drastically different ways.

#TeamBlackNBlue4Life

 

[cuseattle]

Blue and brown for my eyes. If that makes me a less evolved part of the species, I can deal.

 

[obliterata]

It's light blue and brown.

When I capture the RGB value of multiple locations on the dress the light blue areas ALWAYS have a Blue value that is higher than the Red and Green values (but Red and Green are not close to zero) which means it really is a lighter shade of blue and not blue. When I do the same to the brown areas I ALWAYS get a Red value that is higher than the Green value which is ALWAYS higher than the Blue value, this is indicative of the color brown.

If it was white and gold or blue and black and my eyes could not see it as such then my computer would give RGB values that corresponded to one of those color schemes, but it doesn't.

edit: I added a few words to make my point clearer.

 

[cuseattle]

It's light blue and brown.

When I capture the RGB value of multiple locations on the dress the light blue areas ALWAYS have a Blue value that is higher than the Red and Green values which means it really is a shade of blue. When I do the same to the brown areas I ALWAYS get a Red value that is higher than the Green value which is ALWAYS higher than the Blue value, this is indicative of the color brown.

If it was white and gold or blue and black and my eyes could not see it as such then my computer would give RGB values that corresponded to one of those color schemes, but it doesn't.

I love smart people even when not understanding them!

Edit- I still don't understand.

 

[obliterata]

Ha, well, thanks but I'm not that smart and I'm sure you understand what I mean.

I've seen the dress on TV in a news video and it really is blue and black which means the Red Green Blue (RGB) values of it would be 0,0,255 and 0,0,0 or thereabouts if a photo of it was accurate.

If somebody checks the RGB values of pfister's pic and comes up with values similar to 255,255,255 and 255,215,0 or 0,0,255 and 0,0,0 I'm going to take my computer to an ophthalmologist.

 

[cuseattle]

I remember science stuff. Colors are only what your eyes and brain perceieve them to be. Still... I don't get it.

 

[imdevo]

Black, blue, orange, gold, pink...i dont care what color it is. Just want to see it off at the end of the night.

 

[cuseattle]

Black white green red
Can I bring my friend to bed
Pink brown yellow orange and blue
I love you

 

[Bill Orange]

Best reply:

Blake Griffin ‏@blakegriffin32
Forget the dress guys... What color am I?

 

[cuseattle]

Still researching here. Pretty sure Twitter is stupid.
Probably because I am old and feel the same way about that myspace thing you kids are doing.

 

[stuckinbig11]

I think this is a well-conceived ruse to get lots of people to see the advertisements.

 

[bballbeadle]

White and gold.

About three decades ago I bought a shirt and pants to match. The shirt had green in it and the pants were green. Except when I wore the outfit outside, the pants suddenly turned tan. I was so mad! Still haunts my dreams ...

 

[AZOrange]

White and gold.

About three decades ago I bought a shirt and pants to match. The shirt had green in it and the pants were green. Except when I wore the outfit outside, the pants suddenly turned tan. I was so mad! Still haunts my dreams ...

So you had no pants on when you went outside?

 

[MCC]

Depends on ambient light and your cones (photoreceptors that detect and distinguish colors). I suspect that it is indeed white (or cream, a very light brown at most) and gold or a similar "metallic" hue. We detect blue quite distinctly at around 450nm (nanometers) but the blue cones are located outside the fovea centralis and we have far fewer of these then red and green cones.

Worth noting is that when red and / or green are in focus (and to my knowledge brown is an amalgamation of these, and not a distinct hue) blues actually look rather "fuzzy". This effect is called chromatic aberration, and is due to blue's larger refractive index; in layman's terms the eye can only focus on colors of similar refractive index because different refractive indices lead to different focal lengths. In essence your eye cannot be both "red sighted" and "blue sighted" at the same time.

The areas that one might read as blue would thus be much "fuzzier" if they were actually blue, thus I suspect they are white but appear blue due to the ambient light, which is is obviously quite bright. This leads to distortions in depth and color perception, likely due to an "overload" of the rods (photoreceptors that detect luminosity).

Using a computer to come up with RGB values will yield a different "readout" than the human eye since computers don't have lenses that perceive light at different focal lengths. That said, the RGB values wouldn't be "wrong", just inconsistent with the human eye's readout.

What would be really fascinating would be to get a readout from a mantis shrimp. They have 12 different photoreceptors, and can detect UV and polarized light. Folks that study these cool crustaceans (their claws can "punch" with a force of close to 20 newtons, and actually create cavitation bubbles that implode into shockwaves as they pass through water!) suspect that their broad range is advantageous in their natural habitat: brightly colored coral reefs, inhabited by brightly colored fish and other crustaceans. I'm going to guess that the ambient light is probably polarized as it passes through seawater, so the mantis shrimp evolved photoreceptors to detect these changes for some predator / prey advantage.

 

[JarHeadJim]

 

[bballbeadle]

Depends on ambient light and your cones (photoreceptors that detect and distinguish colors). I suspect that it is indeed white (or cream, a very light brown at most) and gold or a similar "metallic" hue. We detect blue quite distinctly at around 450nm (nanometers) but the blue cones are located outside the fovea centralis and we have far fewer of these then red and green cones.

Worth noting is that when red and / or green are in focus (and to my knowledge brown is an amalgamation of these, and not a distinct hue) blues actually look rather "fuzzy". This effect is called chromatic aberration, and is due to blue's larger refractive index; in layman's terms the eye can only focus on colors of similar refractive index because different refractive indices lead to different focal lengths. In essence your eye cannot be both "red sighted" and "blue sighted" at the same time.

The areas that one might read as blue would thus be much "fuzzier" if they were actually blue, thus I suspect they are white but appear blue due to the ambient light, which is is obviously quite bright. This leads to distortions in depth and color perception, likely due to an "overload" of the rods (photoreceptors that detect luminosity).

Using a computer to come up with RGB values will yield a different "readout" than the human eye since computers don't have lenses that perceive light at different focal lengths. That said, the RGB values wouldn't be "wrong", just inconsistent with the human eye's readout.

What would be really fascinating would be to get a readout from a mantis shrimp. They have 12 different photoreceptors, and can detect UV and polarized light. Folks that study these cool crustaceans (their claws can "punch" with a force of close to 20 newtons, and actually create cavitation bubbles that implode into shockwaves as they pass through water!) suspect that their broad range is advantageous in their natural habitat: brightly colored coral reefs, inhabited by brightly colored fish and other crustaceans. I'm going to guess that the ambient light is probably polarized as it passes through seawater, so the mantis shrimp evolved photoreceptors to detect these changes for some predator / prey advantage.

MCC - - WHO ARE YOU??!?

 

[OttoinGrotto]

I see a picture of a white and gold dress taken in really bad lighting. That is all I have ever seen.

 

[Ghost]

I feel like the blue is getting darker and darker! Make it stop!