WHAT COLOR IS THAT DRESS?!!? Technically it’s black/orange and blue, but if it is white and gold to you, blame evolution.
Alright Internet, let’s all take a collective deep breath and think about this. Why do some people think this now infamous dress is black and blue and others white and gold? Well, it definitely has something to do with a poorly processed photograph in bad lighting, but it has more to do with a special combination of colors and your brain.
As I explain in the video above (building on another explanation offered by the crack photo team at WIRED), the Internet is having a collective freakout over something pretty special — this dress and the picture that depicts it has found a very fine boundary boundary in our visual processing system, which evolved under very specific conditions.
Or maybe not. We are bound to see a hundred articles about color perception tomorrow, but for what it’s worth, Photoshop itself weighed in:
For those seeing #WhiteandGold in #TheDress (http://t.co/pNG9tXu5pU), @HopeTaylorPhoto ends the debate. pic.twitter.com/W7TwQJy13m
— Adobe (@Adobe) February 27, 2015
Looks blue and gold to me
Thank you! And now for an encore, could you tell us whether #GamerGate is really a consumer revolt over bad gaming journalism or just part of rape culture and the patriarchy.
I see blue and black but my kids see white and gold weird but we got a good laugh out of it.
Kyle, No. All in a days work though, huh.
Well, this is the answer! Hope it helps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxHD7z_4zoA
Go to this website to see how many people in the world see the dress like you:
http://www.Voteofworld.com
I get confusing the blue for white depending on the lighting, but I can’t see where someone would be seeing black on that dress.
It’s not actually black if you’re talking pantone, more like you know that it is black lace from how it looks, so even though it’s more of a brownish shade due to being washed out you say “black.”
Go to this website to see how many people in the world see the dress like you:
http://www.Voteofworld.com
Go to this website to see how many people in the world see the dress like you:
http://www.Voteofworld.com
No, the audio is DEFINITELY gold and white.
The actual dress is blue and black. The picture was just taken with a crappy camera with a bright flash that washed it out. And the colors pulled from the two blue (really, it is like periwinkle) sections are exactly the color of the area behind them, not like some little tiny spot they pulled.