Strange dress

Also see it as blue and brownish-goldish black. But I think that it is actually black and looks brownish-goldish due to flash from the camera.

Another article says that it could be even blue and orange! But, again, I think it has to do with the picture not being taken in the natural light, and including flash. The Wired people also propose an interesting explanation. Not sure if it is in any way valid.

Even WIRED’s own photo team—driven briefly into existential spasms of despair by how many of them saw a white-and-gold dress—eventually came around to the contextual, color-constancy explanation. “I initially thought it was white and gold,” says Neil Harris, our senior photo editor. “When I attempted to white-balance the image based on that idea, though, it didn’t make any sense.” He saw blue in the highlights, telling him that the white he was seeing was blue, and the gold was black. And when Harris reversed the process, balancing to the darkest pixel in the image, the dress popped blue and black. “It became clear that the appropriate point in the image to balance from is the black point,” Harris says.
So when context varies, so will people’s visual perception. “Most people will see the blue on the white background as blue,” Conway says. “But on the black background some might see it as white.” He even speculated, perhaps jokingly, that the white-gold prejudice favors the idea of seeing the dress under strong daylight. “I bet night owls are more likely to see it as blue-black,” Conway says.

At least we can all agree on one thing: The people who see the dress as white are utterly, completely wrong.
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Keit said:
Also see it as blue and brownish-goldish black. But I think that it is actually black and looks brownish-goldish due to flash from the camera.
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I was also about to write that I see it as blue and golden-brown, but it could be black looking lighter because of the light. Not sure if camera light could make it look like that, but sun light would.

My husband sees it as gold and white. But who cares? It's not even a nice looking dress whatever its colours!
 
O.K. this is weird. I had my husband come over and look at it just out of curiosity and he saw gold and white. I see blue and brown. How can this be? Very strange!
 
Well, that's interesting. When I first saw the post, I saw gold and white colors. Then, I went away and worked on the projects for a bit. I just came back to this thread and saw Perceval's attachment of the dress, then I looked back to the first post - now, it's black and blue.

Now, I'm reminded of that illusion of the ballerina spinning round some times ago.
 
The first time I saw it, the dress was white and gold, then I saw other pictures where the dress was black and blue.
The one posted by s-kur is black and blue to me.

I dunno perhaps some major trolling going on ?

Who's been engineering this huge social experiment to redirect/reshape reality so that we all see this dress as black and blue now ?
I can't find back a picture of a white and gold dress now...argh...The white balanced picture is the closest to what I've seen this morning...
 
I awoke to this on my Facebook wall this morning and wrote it off as just another bunch of social media hysterical nonsense until I came upon this post.

Through my eyes, it's definitely a Dark Colour with tinges of gold, and then white. I can't see how anyone else could think otherwise :P

Since there are already people who see it differently, I find this extremely fascinating!
 
At first I saw the white and brown, but now I can switch to blue and black, and then back again. Weird.
 
liffy said:
At first I saw the white and brown, but now I can switch to blue and black, and then back again. Weird.
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Really? Back and forth? I just can not understand this. It leads me to think this is manipulation. it is too far spread on media to be nothing.
 
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