When I first saw this, it was definitely blue and black. But then I saw the thumbnail for the BBC News report and it was white and gold - and it was the same in the report.
I guessed they'd found a different image, went back to Twitter and found the blue and black version. Switching back to the BBC tab and it was now blue and black there as well.
The dress on the left appears to be white and gold; the one the model is wearing is blue and black. Do people see no difference between the two pictures?
They don't look anything like the same dress side by side.
That does look sort of white and gold but it also is clearly looks like the image has been deliberately faded.
Yes, like I said, I've seen various photos of this dress. Some are totally different images of models in photo shoots or catalogue images (and these show a deep blue and solid black lace), and others are variations of the over-exposed cameraphone image of the shop dummy wearing the dress.
At least 10% of the population are supposed to be colour blind in some way, and lots of people are tweeting and posting links to different web pages showing different images. No wonder there's confusion.
I see the dress as blue and black in all of the photos except the photo in question - where I see it as pale blue and brown (which is surely just due to poor colour rendition/lighting in the photo).
If you open the picture up in MS paint, use 'pick up a colour' and then draw a little section of that colour in the bit of free white space at the upper right of the picture, you can see that the colours are light blue and dark gold/ dark brown. It's just a sort of optical illusion.
Yes - the dress IS black and blue. But for some reason some people are seeing it as white and gold. How they could possibly make that mistake is beyond me.
If you open the picture up in MS paint, use 'pick up a colour' and then draw a little section of that colour in the bit of free white space at the upper right of the picture, you can see that the colours are light blue and dark gold/ dark brown. It's just a sort of optical illusion.
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But it's one of the photos from one of the Buzzfeed articles that has gone viral - and people are commenting about.
Here are the colours of the original photo:
http://i59.tinypic.com/9tho9c.png
MS Paint says it's gold. Check for yourself. You, along with many others, obviously have undiagnosed colour blindness.
I guessed they'd found a different image, went back to Twitter and found the blue and black version. Switching back to the BBC tab and it was now blue and black there as well.
The brain is a weird and wonderful thing.
They don't look anything like the same dress side by side.
That does look sort of white and gold but it also is clearly looks like the image has been deliberately faded.
But it's genuinely fascinating, Billy!
What do these colours look like:
http://i59.tinypic.com/9tho9c.png
Yes, like I said, I've seen various photos of this dress. Some are totally different images of models in photo shoots or catalogue images (and these show a deep blue and solid black lace), and others are variations of the over-exposed cameraphone image of the shop dummy wearing the dress.
At least 10% of the population are supposed to be colour blind in some way, and lots of people are tweeting and posting links to different web pages showing different images. No wonder there's confusion.
Even when I see it as blue and black there's a slight gold tint where the light is catching the black.
Yes - the dress IS black and blue. But for some reason some people are seeing it as white and gold. How they could possibly make that mistake is beyond me.
Like this?
http://time.com/3725758/proof-dress-black-and-blue/
It's black and blue.
You see no apparent difference in the colour of the dresses in the two pictures on this page? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-31656935
People don't even know if they're arguing with each other over a dress or a photo or another photo.
Either way, not long 'til St Patrick's Day now...