what colour is this dress?

[lazuli]

DO NOT OPEN THE SPOILER BELOW UNTIL YOU HAVE VOTED IN THE POLL
simple. just vote for what colour you think this dress is and discuss below.

im sure lots of you have seen somethin bout this already but this is for those who have not:

Spoiler:

Your eyes have retinas, the things that let you interpret color. There’s rods, round things, and cones that stick out, which is what gives your eye a textured appearance in the colored part. The “cones” see color. The “rods” see shade, like black, white and grey. Cones only work when enough light passes through. So while I see the fabric as white, someone else may see it as blue because my cones aren’t responding to the dim lighting. My rods see it as a shade (white). There’s three cones, small, medium and large. They are blue sensitive, green sensitive, and red sensitive. As for the black bit (which I see as gold), it’s called additive mixing. Blue, green and red are the main colors for additive mixing. This is where it gets really tricky. Subtractive mixing, such as with paint, means the more colors you add the murkier it gets until it’s black. ADDITIVE mixing, when you add the three colors eyes see best, red, green and blue, (not to be confused with primary colors red, blue and yellow) it makes pure white.
—Blue and Black: In conclusion, your retina’s cones are more high functioning, and this results in your eyes doing subtractive mixing.
—White and Gold: our eyes don’t work well in dim light so our retinas rods see white, and this makes them less light sensitive, causing additive mixing, (that of green and red), to make gold.
**** UPDATE to prove this theory I turned my phone brightness from the lowest to highest and saw it switching from white and gold (at the lowest) to light blue and darker gold (at the highest) meaning people that see blue and black are more sensitive to light (better eyesight and not looking at the sun like your moms told you)

also from the original poster of the dress:

E: OK WE GET THAT THE ACTUAL DRESS IS BLACK AND BLUE, YOU CAN STOP LINKING TO THAT WEBSITE
THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE A WHITE+GOLD VERSION BC OF HOW POPULAR THIS GOT
THIS IS TALKING ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR IMAGE AND ITS LIGHTING
NOT ANY OTHER PICTURE
JUST THIS ONE

 

[Beardo]

White and gold

duh

 

[oath2order]

It's ****ing white and gold.

 

[lazuli]

OH DAMN GUESS WHO DIDNT SEE THE THREAD BELOW???

 

[oath2order]

OH DAMN GUESS WHO DIDNT SEE THE THREAD BELOW???

the one that got locked yes

 

[brutalitea]

Not this crap again... Leave this BS on twitter.

 

[lazuli]

the one that got locked yes

yeh that
thats what i get for not being online in the last few hours hhaaha

- - - Post Merge - - -

Not this crap again... Leave this BS on twitter.

ok

 

[Justin]

Seeing as this thread actually provides meaningful information about it, it will stay open as long as it doesn't devolve into complete spam.

#TeamBlueAndBlack

 

[Jake]

first time i looked at it, it was white and gold but then i did this thing

where you cover part of it up and then it turned blue and black

but after i looked at it more, it turned into blue and gold

 

[Javocado]

wow do we really have to address this

 

[CR33P]

are you guys being serious about seeing blue and black?

 

[Chris]

I saw blue and black in the previous thread.

I only found out it had been re-created because Justin told me, and he can even back-up that I genuinely thought for about a minute a different image was being shown because I could see it in white and gold... after blinking a few times I saw blue and gold; and then it went back to black and blue.

 

[oath2order]

I saw blue and black in the previous thread.

I only found out it had been re-created because Justin told me, and he can even back-up that I genuinely thought for about a minute a different image was being shown because I could see it in white and gold... after blinking a few times I saw blue and gold; and then it went back to black and blue.

I need to remind everybody that Tina is not a reliable source as she has been confirmed to have four drinks and therefore is not a reliable eyewitness to the dress' color-changing abilities.

 

[Eldin]

I see blue and black and I haven't seen this anywhere else yet so I don't know wth is with all the craziness.

Am I gonna die?

 

[lazuli]

Seeing as this thread actually provides meaningful information about it, it will stay open as long as it doesn't devolve into complete spam.

#TeamBlueAndBlack

throws confetti

wow do we really have to address this

i am not afraid to punch you

are you guys being serious about seeing blue and black?

diff ppl hav diff eyes, duh.

I saw blue and black in the previous thread.

I only found out it had been re-created because Justin told me, and he can even back-up that I genuinely thought for about a minute a different image was being shown because I could see it in white and gold... after blinking a few times I saw blue and gold; and then it went back to black and blue.

if i look at it differently (like from a diff angle or i change my screen brightness) i can see the blue and black but only for a split second
my whole family was like???? its blue and black??? you have eye problems. get new glasses

 

[Jake]

I need to remind everybody that Tina is not a reliable source as she has been confirmed to have four drinks and therefore is not a reliable eyewitness to the dress' color-changing abilities.

she is also confirmed liar about whether or not she is typing in irc

 

[Murray]

looks grey and dark grey to me?

 

[azukitan]

Saw this on deviantART earlier. I have 20/20 vision, and I see blue and black :>

 

[kassie]

TL;DR the spoiler but I see white and gold.

Everyone else in my house sees blue and black.

 

[brutalitea]

I need to remind everybody that Tina is not a reliable source as she has been confirmed to have four drinks and therefore is not a reliable eyewitness to the dress' color-changing abilities.

Wow oath stop badmouthing Tina.