its because the background gives the impression of bright yellow incandescent lighting but in order to see the dress as white gold you have to assume it’s under entirely different (low diffuse white) lighting conditions than the rest of the image implies
Isn’t it because your brain assumes the dress is in the shadow and only lit by the ambient light from the sky. Hence why the brain color corrects the blue to white since ambient light from the sky is slightly blue.
Well, ok, that’s not entirely true, I can see how in GIMP:
The colors are basically exactly in between white/gold and blue/black respectively.
And I can see a very, very faint blue tint on the white, just as it “should be”, according to GIMP. But it doesn’t click to another color entirely for me, especially not pitch black and dark blue.
It doesn’t look like dark blue. Which is interesting-- the color it appears to be is about as far from dark blue as it is from white. But, correcting for the harsh glare, it’s blue (as we now know it really is).
I still have never been able to see white and gold
I still have never been able to see blue and black
its because the background gives the impression of bright yellow incandescent lighting but in order to see the dress as white gold you have to assume it’s under entirely different (low diffuse white) lighting conditions than the rest of the image implies
Isn’t it because your brain assumes the dress is in the shadow and only lit by the ambient light from the sky. Hence why the brain color corrects the blue to white since ambient light from the sky is slightly blue.
There’s a great video on how effects like these work.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU
What about in the left in OP?
What’s that to you:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/The_dress_blueblackwhitegold.jpg
blue and black. Don’t see how it could be white 🤷♀️
And I don’t see how it could be blue and black…
Well, ok, that’s not entirely true, I can see how in GIMP:
The colors are basically exactly in between white/gold and blue/black respectively.
And I can see a very, very faint blue tint on the white, just as it “should be”, according to GIMP. But it doesn’t click to another color entirely for me, especially not pitch black and dark blue.
It doesn’t look like dark blue. Which is interesting-- the color it appears to be is about as far from dark blue as it is from white. But, correcting for the harsh glare, it’s blue (as we now know it really is).
Oh, I assumed dark blue and pitch black because of the image in the post.
And it’s debatable wherever that can be considered blue or gold. Both are objectively very faint/light, apparently.
What I mean is, the physical dress is blue+black
It’s blue and black