While that's as may be, the dress actually /is/ blue and black, so...

I'm going to assume it's a gamut issue on monitors, or people are wearing glasses with very mild colour altering coatings.

I see those colors too Trooper.

Is the internet bored today or something because honestly...

The colours in the picture:


What do people see? I see, light blue, darker blue, light gold, dark gold.

I think it's brilliant. Finally something that *everyone* is discussing that isn't some kind of huge tragedy or live event.

Also they're not calling each other cunts.

Also they're not calling each other cunts.

You can put the photo on your phone, show it to people in real life, and still get a split of opinions on what colour it is. I did this in my office this morning. Nothing to do with glasses or displays.

Those people who see white and gold are just like Hitler.

The colours in the picture:


What do people see? I see, light blue, darker blue, light gold, dark gold.

Despite knowing it's wrong, I've only ever been able to see it as gold-and-white... except I just looked at it again and suddenly it's thoroughly, utterly, 100% blue-and-black.

Despite knowing it's wrong, I've only ever been able to see it as gold-and-white... except I just looked at it again and suddenly it's thoroughly, utterly, 100% blue-and-black.

Despite knowing it's wrong, I've only ever been able to see it as gold-and-white... except I just looked at it again and suddenly it's thoroughly, utterly, 100% blue-and-black.

Despite knowing it's wrong, I've only ever been able to see it as gold-and-white... except I just looked at it again and suddenly it's thoroughly, utterly, 100% blue-and-black.

Well?

Despite knowing it's wrong, I've only ever been able to see it as gold-and-white... except I just looked at it again and suddenly it's thoroughly, utterly, 100% blue-and-black.

Oh fuck me, on the train the fucking picture looks blue and black.

I know which one I'm getting!

If you squint really hard (til your eyes are closed) it looks black. Still don't see blue tho.

Smuggity smug smug smuggy smug.

I've just put the image in photoshop. It's blue (violet shade) and black(ish)

There's a big difference between isolated colour pixels taken from an image (from DBS's example I see a cornflower blue and dark gold/brown colour) and his your brain reads it in context.

My brain assumes that it is gold and white because I know from experience the effect of taking pictures of white objects facing away from the light source in pictures taken into a strong backlight, so my brain thinks this is what is happening here and so interprets the colours on the screen to probably be sometthing close to white and gold.

Given that vision is only 10% what your eyes are doing, and 90% your brain's interpretation of the information it's getting, this is not that surprising.