What color do gamers think the dress is?

Well I selected white and gold, but as it is being posed as a question with more answers than the basic visually obvious one, I'd assume their is more to it than this?

At first I'd say white and golden, but considering the overexposure of the overall photo I could see blue and golden, but I definitely can't see blue and black XD

Well I can honestly only see blue and black. This is interesting.

O_o

Well that's interesting.

@bfa1509: I asked my wife without telling her about the options and she replied, without hesitation, blue and black. Then we went into Photoshop's RGB picker and I showed her which colours I see and she did the same. The interesting part is that when she chose the colours I saw blue and black and she saw in my choices whitish and golden. So why can we not see it in the photo?

Ok that is freaky. I have to give your wife a virtual high five for backing me up!

Also, by photoshop's eyedropper tool the main colours are whitish blue and brownish golden.

Aha. You may be on to something here. Weird.

@Brutal_Elitegs

Colorblind?

White and Gold.

I can't believe White and Gold is winning. THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!!

Human sacrifices, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria!

@bfa1509: High five given and returned =P I think since the colours are halfway between both and with your brain making the necessary adjustments (for example "the dress looks like it's in the shade from those bright white lights, so that explains the blue tint and it's probably white") it causes confusion in the brain.

I use contact lenses so I really just look very hard and I just gave you my answer.

@bfa1509: Any answer from the designer?

the dress is technically black and blue

but deoending on backlighting and the fact that the brain is a prediction machine instead of actually "seeing what is", it compensates in different ways to make the world align in a certain fashion so it can get on with navigating it

its a bit of an optical illusion, in the sense that we warp in accordance with what is presented to us

now lets move on to africa and other more pressing issues before i kill myself

please

@BiancaDK: Yeah, because we so often find solutions to the world's problems in these forums.

ironically we do

whether or not those solutions are viable is an entirely different matter lol

Obama just called up the UN and was like "Holy shit guys, we need to call a meeting, the GS forums has this shit all figured out. Also, I found this awesome animated gif of Chuck Norris riding a T-Rex. Vladimir is going to ROFLMAOWPHP".

@bfa1509: Funnily enough, I just watched a video where they keep showing the dress without any colour correction (blue and black) and then I looked back at this photo and I could see the blue better and the golden a bit darker. Also, according to the video you can see the dress differently depending on the last things you've been looking at.

i actually lol'd irl reading that shit

thank you

I woke up hearing about this all over the place, and now it's reached OT. Almost makes me glad I gotta go back to work.

What's the story behind this dress thing ?

@hallenbeck77: And yet you still clicked the thread...you're hooked! =P

Just be glad you didn't see it in SW.

basically can be summarized to 1 word

women

I don't get the jokes ....

Why the hell it's getting such traction i wonder...

Maybe we can't trust our pilots anymore?

check this out :

http://www.businessinsider.com/white-and-gold-black-and-blue-dress-2015-2

Man it's riveting...

And now that we've established that most people's eye rods (mine included) are fucked up here's some optical illusions to keep everyone entertained.

okay i retract everything i have previously stated in this thread

the dress just changed colors for me

literally in front of my fucking eyes it went from a very light blue with gold to dark blue and black

you have to keep staring at it and keep telling yourself that it's not a light blue with gold trimming, and stick with it, and by god it changes eventually and it'll blow your mind

Or...

...people still don't know how to fucking calibrate their monitor!

So I found The Dress for sale here. It is clearly black and blue. But in the photo posted by TC I see white and gold.

But what gets even stranger, if you stare at the The Dress I posted for a good 30sec without moving your eyes, and then go back to the TC's pic it will change color!!! o_O (This trick only works if you originally saw white and gold in the TC pic)

@br0kenrabbit: Both my wife and I were looking at the same monitor =)

But who calibrated the monitor? Your calibration and her's aren't necessarily the same.

But I think there's an easy answer to this question: Ask a tetrachromatic. Fortunately, I happen to know one. I'll try to get a hold of her. lol

Last night when I saw it it was yellow and white, this morning it was black and blue. Now it's yellow and white again. So I strongly suspect sorcery involving the time of the day is involved.

exact same with me

i cant even see it as gold anymore, its completely black every time i look at it, regardless of what site the picture is hosted on or what lightin i have set my sceen to ;0

I don't understand why this dress thing is all over the internet... seriously, wtf?


It looks blue and brown to me anyway...

**** africa

I'm glad you have seen the light... I mean, the dark...

That dress is blue and gold

Where are people seeing black?

@bfa1509: it's just crazy lol

How are people seeing black?? If you open the image in Photoshop and check the colors, it's gold.
I know that the actual dress is blue and black, but that picture is clearly light blue and gold.

@mjorh said:

I don't get the jokes ....

Most Awesome !

it's only blue and black yet my wife insists white and gold. maybe she's colorblind

does that mean people who see it as w/g see the sky as white during the day and gold during the night???

@comp_atkins: Nope =P We see it as photoshop does XD