Scottish singer Caitlin McNeill posted a photo of the dress on Tumblr asking what color the dress is? White and gold or black and blue?
The opinions of people were divided: some believe that the color of the dress is blue and black, others - white and gold.
Celebrities added fuel to the fire :) So Taylor Swift tweeted that the dress is blue and black:
I don "t understand this odd dress debate and I feel like it" s a trick somehow. I "m confused and scared. PS it" s OBVIOUSLY BLUE AND BLACK
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West consider white and gold and black and blue, respectively:
What color is that dress? I see white & gold. Kanye sees black & blue, who is color blind?
Photographer Hope Taylor(Hope Taylor) helped sort this out with Adobe Lightroom.
If you make the color of the image "warm", then the dress looks like white and gold, if the color is "cold", then the dress will turn blue and black:
Given the lighting conditions in which the original photograph was taken, there is a clear answer to the color debate: dress color blue and black.
The phenomenon of different color perception is interesting. There are versions that this may be due to a number of factors, including the person's age, lighting, background color, etc.
And here's how this dress looks in the store:
The Amazon online store also confirmed the black and blue color of the dress:
The excitement around this dress was so great that LEGO decided to reconcile the parties: choose the color that you like best :)
P.S. In Kaitlyn McNeill's photo, I see white and gold. Light blue / pale blue and gold, to be exact :)
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This photo of the dress has become a real bone of contention. She divided the disputants into two groups - those who see it white and gold, and those who are sure that the dress is blue and black. At first glance at this photo, it is difficult to understand why there is so much hype around it. Are there not enough similar photos on the Internet? But since it started ... Here's what they write:
And they even go further in their assumptions: The unremarkable photograph has caused a lot of controversy on the Internet around the world. And all because most of the users see a white and gold dress in the picture, and people with mental disabilities are blue and black.
Let's finally find out what color this damn dress is ...
One small photo plunged all netizens into a state of panic. People go mad with despair and cannot find a place for themselves. They wonder why different people see this picture differently!
Here's what people write in the comments:
From the beginning blue and black. Then it began to seem that it is blue with dark gold. It seems to me that the whole point is in the features of the monitor screens in different people. In fact, as many monitors, as many people will see different shades of this dress. I have the same crap with work all the time: people on the monitor see fabric in such a shade, but when you bring it in, it seems to them that it’s not so fabric at all.
It `s Magic! in the morning my wife and I saw it clearly white and gold, then I sat at the monitor and it turned blue and black. I even thought, "What a stupid joke, they took a photo, changed it." and the wife continues to see white and gold
We argued with the rebz about this dress)))) She says that it is white with gold, but I can see that it is blue with bronze))
Oh, well, some kind of nonsense. For the sake of interesting interrogated all the tenants of the apartment, all as one said that the dress is blue with black and gold (brown-green, but this is subtlety) stripes. I tried to change the screen brightness, contrast, I even connected another monitor, meditated, persuaded, shouted, but white doesn't come out of blue. Some kind of catch here.
I see that my employees are not working a damn thing. Two came up to me with this question during working hours, I briefly upset them with white and sand. Now I'm having lunch and bumping into full-blown paranoia on the internet. Those who see black (oh myne bastard) are crazy. Banal distortion of colors nedofoticom, wretched iso with all that it implies. I didn't read the comments - I don't want to know how many schizos around))
What nonsense !!! Now I see white and gold. Although recently I saw blue and black
So there actually is:
The dress is black and blue and Roman Originals has confirmed this.
Official confirmation from Twitter: https://twitter.com/romanoriginals/status/571224722438004736/photo/1
Dress on Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Roman-Womens-Detail-Bodycon-Dress/dp/B00SJEUCWU
site- At the end of last week, a photo appeared on the Internet that divided the world into two camps. As you may have guessed it is about a magic dress. In the eyes of some people it is black and blue, in others it is white and gold .. The editors have collected facts about which scientists told.
On February 25, Swiked posted a photo of the dress on Tumblr and asked her friends a simple question about what color it was. After a few hours, millions of people were divided into two camps: some claimed that the outfit was blue and black, and others that it was white and gold. But even after the author of the photo confirmed that it is really blue with black stripes, the debate on the network did not stop and continues to this day. Even scientists got into the argument. They finally decided to explain what color the dress really is. Jane Knitz, a neuroscientist at Washington State University, says that human eyes and brains have evolved to distinguish colors in a world illuminated by the sun. Light enters the eye through the lens - different wavelengths indicate different colors. Light hits the retina at the back of the eye, where pigments activate neural connections in the visual cortex, the part of the brain that translates signals into images. This theory is put forward by a popular American site.
“The brain figures out what color light is reflected from an object that the eyes can see, and separates that color from the color it considers to be 'real.' “So people ignore blue and then see white and gold,” added Bevil Conway, another neurologist at Wellesley College.
For example, even what a person looks at before looking at a dress can have a direct impact on what colors they see. The level of lighting in the room in which the person is located also matters.
Lighting is very important for color recognition, which is a combination of how much light falls on an object and how much light is reflected from it. In the case of a dress, some people perceive the image as blue and black, since it seems to their eyes that the lighting is strong enough and there is little reflected light, others perceive more of the reflected color, therefore they see the dress as white and gold.
After the topic became so popular on the Internet, Kaitlyn McNeill, who posted the photo, revealed that the dress is actually blue and black.
“In addition to the poor image quality, the controversy is also explained by how we perceive light. Our brain processes light waves of different lengths, each of which corresponds to a different color. As Bevil Conway, a color and vision scientist, explained to Wired, daylight affects and changes how we perceive the colors of objects. Therefore, when looking at a dress, our brain corrects for daylight and “cuts off” one of the undertones - bluish or yellowish. Due to the individuality of perception, it seems to some that the dress is white and gold, and to others that it is blue and black. In addition, this effect can also be explained by an optical illusion: the way we perceive the color of an object is influenced by the background on which it is located and the lighting. The picture could have been taken under bluish light, in which many might think it is white. "
The most detailed answer was given by professor from Washington Jay Nates: “The dress appears blue-black or white-gold depending on whether your eye has more rods or cones, and the light conditions in the room. (This is made possible by the different colors that blend around you.) Different people have different remnants of "rods" and "cones" - those with color blindness are the first to suffer.
But the rods are also very light sensitive. The rods detect color using a pigment called rhodopsin, which is very sensitive to low light, but is emitted and destroyed at higher light levels. And it should take about 45 minutes to readjust (well, how does your eyes take time to adjust to the night, in other words). Basically, if you look at a dress in bright light and see one color, then if you leave for half an hour in a dark room and return, the dress will quite possibly change color.
Also, the different color of the dress from different people is associated with individual differences in the perception of color. If you've ever tried photography, you've probably run into white balance - the camera tries to equalize it in the wrong lighting conditions. Your brain makes its own white balance, which automatically means that you either ignore the blue tint and see a white-gold image, or ignore the yellow tint, see a blue-black photograph.
Ophthalmologists say that different perception of the color of the dress does not mean that you have eye or mental problems... Each person has individual vision characteristics. The brain processes light waves that hit the retina in a unique way, so someone sees some colors, someone else.
There is a scientific explanation for why people see different colors in the same picture. This is an optical illusion. Objects reflect light at different wavelengths or in different colors, and the human brain determines color from the reflected light. Surrounding objects can also reflect color and affect perception. In this photo, there are many other colors around and they are mixed, and the brain cannot immediately determine the color of the dress. So, people who think the surrounding light is dark see white instead of blue. It depends on the process of perception by the brain. University of Washington professor Jay Nates says he has been studying color differences for 30 years and this case is one of the clearest differences he has ever seen. By the way, the dress seemed to him white.
Thousands of people around the world argue about the color of the dress posted by the user on the Tumbler social network. His photo was posted a day ago by Scottish singer Kathleen McNeill.
“Two of my close friends are going to get married. And the bride's mother sent her a photo of this dress. When the bride showed the dress to the groom, they argued over its color, ”McNeill explained why the dress appeared on her account. And I asked for advice from users to figure it out.
And thus "broke" the Internet, the website www.kp.by writes. Some say that the dress is black and blue, others see white and gold. Even the stars of show business got involved in this strange game.
“I don’t understand why this strange dress has so much attention, and I feel some kind of trick here. I am scared and confused. P.S. It's blue and black, ”writes singer and actress Taylor Swift.
"How do you see blue and black ???" - asks actress and model Kim Kardashian.
Lady Gaga also did not stand aside: "The dress is white with sand."
“Guys, what's wrong with you! It's white and blue, ”says Oscar-winning Julianne Moore.
People were divided into teams with the hashtags "white-gold" and "blue-black". The hashtag #thedress topped the top trends in the States. And everyone is scared. Voting has unfolded on various sites. For example, on buzzfeed.com, who were the first to write about this story, 72% voted for white and gold. 28% - for the second option. On telegraph.co.uk, 42% of voters see the blue and black color scheme.
It has already been revealed that in the original the dress is really blue and black. But why do some users see it as white and gold?
Ophthalmologists have tried to explain why people see dress differently.
Your retina is made up of rods and cones that convert light stimuli into nervous excitement. They convert the signal in different ways. Sticks are more sensitive to light, see shadows and work more efficiently in the dark. Cones are sensitive to color, but less sensitive to light. That is, in low light conditions, you see more with rods than with cones.
The dress appears blue and black or white and gold depending on whether your eye has more rods or cones, and the light conditions in the room. Different people have different proportions of rods and cones.
It should take about 45 minutes for vision to readjust (how long it takes for your eyes to adapt to darkness). If you look at a dress in bright light and see one color, it may change if you go into a dark room for half an hour and then return.
Also, the different color of the dress in different people is associated with individual differences in the perception of color. If you've ever tried photography, you've probably run into white balance: the camera tries to equalize it in the wrong lighting conditions. Your brain makes its own white balance, which means that you either ignore the blue tint and see a white-gold image, or ignore the yellow tint, see a blue-black photograph.
Ophthalmologists say that a different perception of the color of a dress does not mean that you have vision or mental problems. Each person has individual characteristics of vision. The brain processes light waves that hit the retina in a unique way, so some people see some colors, some others.
There is another explanation for why people see different colors in the same picture. This is an optical illusion. Objects reflect light at different wavelengths or in different colors, and the human brain determines color from the reflected light. Surrounding objects can also reflect color and affect perception. In this photo, there are many colors around and they are mixed - the brain cannot immediately determine the color of the dress. People who perceive the surrounding light as dark see white instead of blue. University of Washington professor Jay Nates says he has been studying color differences for 30 years and this case is one of the most striking. By the way, the dress seemed to him white.
A new explanation of American scientists who have conducted a study of this phenomenon is possible.
What colors do you see?
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Most likely you have already seen this dress, and you probably have your own opinion about its colors. But the whole world still cannot come to an unambiguous opinion. For some, it is invariably blue-black, for others - white and gold and nothing else!
There were even cases when at first it seemed to a person that the dress was of the same color, and then after some time he was sure of the opposite!
This dress has already done too much trouble. It's time to face the truth and find out what color it really is.
The very photo of the dress, because of which there is so much controversy:
According to some, the original dress, if the lighting was better, should look like this:
Others believe that if it were not for the excessive light, the dress would be like this:
But why do people see different colors in the same photo? There is one version in this regard, and it has nothing to do with the monitor settings, nothing depends on them, we checked.
It's all about how the eyes of each individual person react to the illuminated object. Some people decide that the dress is not well lit (or that its surface is highly reflective) and their brain signals to their eyes to compensate for this. Hence the white and gold color. Others think that too much light is falling on the dress (or the surface is less reflective), and their eyes show them that it is blue-black.
Everything is like in the famous optical illusion of Adelson. In the picture, square "A" is the same color as square "B", although it seems that this is not so.
In general, it turns out that a person's eyes see the image as the brain perceives it. Past experience is also important. If a person has seen a fabric of a similar texture or a similar dress of a certain color, this will most likely affect what color he sees in the photo with the dress. Little is known about this phenomenon, called "difference in perception".
And here is a photo of a real dress. It still turned out to be blue-black.
