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Some clarifying notes, since there's still a lot of misconceptions bouncing around here and elsewhere: This is not a screen issue. Multiple people physically i
by lukev 12y ago
Some clarifying notes, since there's still a lot of misconceptions bouncing around here and elsewhere:
This is not a screen issue. Multiple people physically in the same room looking at the same screen see different things.
The explanation that makes the most sense to me is that it is an instance of this optical illusion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion
This demonstrates that the brain literally sees different things, on a completely pre-conscious level, based on contextual assumptions.
If you assume that the scene lighting is warm/gold, you see a blue/back dress. If you assume the scene lighting is cold/blue, you see the white/gold (I am unable to do this, personally).
- chorizos22 12y agoI don't think so, if you isolate the board is easy to detect the same gray. But in the dress case no matter how the image is corrected, I always see blue-gold.
- sixothree 12y agoMaybe it is the way these colors are represented on screens? If we were to see this dress in real life would there be any argument? Or are there any real world objects as simple as a dress that aren't designed as optical illusions that would evoke the same response? My opinion is the picture is just terribly poor quality. Maybe that has something to do with it.
- sixothree 12y agoSeems I got downvoted a bit but this is a crappy picture. RGB 135,148,190 is nowhere near the actual color.