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Your link says this is the original: http://swiked.tumblr.com/post/112174461490/officialunitedstates-unclefather http://swiked.tumblr.com/post/112174461490/offi

Your link says this is the original: http://swiked.tumblr.com/post/112174461490/officialunitedstates-unclefather http://swiked.tumblr.com/post/112174461490/officialunitedsta... How does anyone see that as white and gold?

reitanqild 12y ago
color-weak like me? Must be the only time I'm aware of that being an advantage. So everyone - stop wondering, -it is blue and black and you are looking it wrong :-P
- jsprogrammer 12y ago
  I don't think so. I've looked at 'color-blindness' tests quite a few times and can always distinguish the numbers. I can see how someone might think the black could be gold, due to the shimmer in some places (although it still mostly looks blackish). I don't see how anyone can see the rest of the dress as white though. It looks like dyed blue fabric...taken with a horrible camera/exposure.
- thaumasiotes 12y ago
  There's no "looking at it wrong". If you take a photograph of something, there's no way to tell from the photograph what color the thing is. That's because the raw visual data (light of wavelengths x, intensity y) depends much more strongly on the lighting the object is subject to than on its inherent optical properties. But your visual system is designed to ignore local lighting and extract the inherent optical properties, which are what you mean by "color".
cauterized 12y ago
Because it looks like it's bluish only because it's in the shade (with yellower sunlight in the background).
- jsprogrammer 12y ago
  Maybe my monitor is calibrated towards blue (doesn't seem like it), but I don't see it. Blue shade? In yellow light?
  - cauterized 12y ago
    Yup. Light in the shade is bluer than direct sunlight. This is because our atmosphere diffuses blue light (which is why the sky looks blue) -- so blue light comes from every direction of the sky, and other wavelengths of light come only from the direction of the sun. Anything in the shade (shadowed from the sun) receives only that diffuse light from the rest of the sky -- which is in fact bluish.

reitanqild 12y ago

color-weak like me? Must be the only time I'm aware of that being an advantage. So everyone - stop wondering, -it is blue and black and you are looking it wrong :-P

jsprogrammer 12y ago
I don't think so. I've looked at 'color-blindness' tests quite a few times and can always distinguish the numbers. I can see how someone might think the black could be gold, due to the shimmer in some places (although it still mostly looks blackish). I don't see how anyone can see the rest of the dress as white though. It looks like dyed blue fabric...taken with a horrible camera/exposure.
thaumasiotes 12y ago
There's no "looking at it wrong". If you take a photograph of something, there's no way to tell from the photograph what color the thing is. That's because the raw visual data (light of wavelengths x, intensity y) depends much more strongly on the lighting the object is subject to than on its inherent optical properties. But your visual system is designed to ignore local lighting and extract the inherent optical properties, which are what you mean by "color".

cauterized 12y ago

Because it looks like it's bluish only because it's in the shade (with yellower sunlight in the background).

jsprogrammer 12y ago
Maybe my monitor is calibrated towards blue (doesn't seem like it), but I don't see it. Blue shade? In yellow light?
- cauterized 12y ago
  Yup. Light in the shade is bluer than direct sunlight. This is because our atmosphere diffuses blue light (which is why the sky looks blue) -- so blue light comes from every direction of the sky, and other wavelengths of light come only from the direction of the sun. Anything in the shade (shadowed from the sun) receives only that diffuse light from the rest of the sky -- which is in fact bluish.