krow Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 the dress is the only thing i can talk about. i don't have time for anything else tonight, except visiting dozens of articles about the dress and refreshing twitter to read more about the dress, and texting people, who for whatever reason don't care about the dress, about the dress. i am literally rocking back and forth possessed by the dress. wtf was i going so crazy over ߷ for when it's all about the dress??? i mean, it's gold and white, obviously, but apparently it's really not. it just looks that way to people who can see. so why do people see different colors? apparently from one of the 352 articles i've just read: What The **** Is Wrong With Your Eyes? A Dress Explainer Your retina is comprised of rods and cones. Rods are more sensitive to light, but see shapes and not color. Cones are sensitive to color, but less sensitive to light — i.e. in darker conditions, you're seeing more with rods than cones. You have three sizes of cones, blue (smallest) to red (biggest), as seen on the graph above. Whether the dress appears as blue/black or white/gold depends on whether your eye has more rods or cones, and also the ambient lighting conditions in the room. (This is thanks to the different colors that are produced by additive and subtractive color mixing.) Different people have different balances of rods and cones — most notably color-blind weirdos like myself — hence different people seeing different colors, and families brutally murdering each other over this mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woohooitsme83 Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 #߷MasterRacebutIstillvotedforwhiteandgold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woohooitsme83 Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 scratch that. It went from Gold/White to Blue/Black to Gold/Blue... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow Posted February 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 scratch that. It went from Gold/White to Blue/Black to Gold/Blue... yeah, wtf just happened? it looked so plausibly white before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympic Fan Darcy Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 Blue and gold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runningrings Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 scratch that. It went from Gold/White to Blue/Black to Gold/Blue... All day I've been arguing blue and black but just now it was white and gold, briefly, and literally faded to blue and black. Odd illusion that I don't understand. Not sure why now it's changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympic Fan Darcy Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 Was all crap basically. Problem was there was 3 different images. Turns out the dress is actually blue and black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2012 Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 Was all crap basically. Problem was there was 3 different images. There might be now, but people are definitely seeing the different colours in the same image. I can see from a thread on my Facebook feed that people are arguing over exactly the same picture. It's all about depth and colour perception. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMarkSnow2012 Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 Pictures can lie. The correct colours for the controversial picture of the dress are golden brown and pale blue (or shadowed white). The correct colours for the dress itself are black and dark blue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR2028 Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 First tine I saw it, I voted white and Gold, now, I look at it and I swear it's blue and black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinXTC Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 Before voting I thought you were talking about Lupita Nyongo's dress she wore at the Oscars that got stolen. It was made with thousands of pearls and was valued at $150,000. It was stolen from her hotel room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zekekelso Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 You know this is all one big practical joke, right? At least that's my story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monorail Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 Just found out about this a couple hours ago as it has made the rounds during the talkshows and newscasts. At first glance it looks blue and black from the picture I seen on TV, now this picture posted online looks lighter. It's weird, as if the picture has been altered. Anyways, it's funny how asking about the colour of a dress completely went viral worldwide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainad Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 Looks blue and brown to me but this wasn't an option so I went for blue and black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzag Posted March 1, 2015 Report Share Posted March 1, 2015 Looks blue and brown to me but this wasn't an option so I went for blue and black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woohooitsme83 Posted March 1, 2015 Report Share Posted March 1, 2015 The original dress is actually blue/black Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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