I just pulled it from the wikipedia page on the dress. The scientific explanations section is pretty interesting

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Oct 3, 2022
10:32:44am

backprop Canada's an illegitimate state

I just pulled it from the wikipedia page on the dress. The scientific explanations section is pretty interesting

The gist is that the picture was taken under a yellow tinted light, and your brain can interpret that as white and gold under a blue tinted light.

The dress

The dress is a photograph that became a viral phenomenon on the Internet in 2015. Viewers of the image disagreed on whether the dress depicted was coloured black and blue, or white and gold. The phenomenon revealed differences in human colour perception, which have been the subject of ongoing...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress

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Originally posted on Oct 3, 2022 at 10:32:44am

Message modified by backprop on Oct 3, 2022 at 10:32:51am

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Okay, now I used the color eyedropper tool on the color you all are apparently calling white.

cougfanblue CB Nose Hair

10/3/22 10:15am

Dusty light blue. That pair is not so often washed. 😉

Soupie

10/3/22 10:17am

And just so we're all on the same page...

cougfanblue

10/3/22 10:18am

When it first came out, saw W & G then all of a sudden it switched to blue & black & I couldn't see it W&G again.

Soupie

10/3/22 10:21am

The color of white snow in the late afternoon shadows.

StarMan

10/3/22 10:19am

RE: Okay, now I used the color eyedropper tool on the color you all are apparently calling white.

backprop

10/3/22 10:20am

That's actually pretty cool.

cougfanblue

10/3/22 10:23am

I just pulled it from the wikipedia page on the dress. The scientific explanations section is pretty interesting

backprop

10/3/22 10:32am

That by itself looks light blue to me, though the dress in the picture appears

jreid191

10/3/22 10:20am

The dress looks blue and black to me, but that doesn't really look blue to me. More grey than anything.

Big Red Thunder

10/3/22 10:24am

Of course cougfanwhite would post this

Mzansi

10/3/22 10:42am

Bwahaha

cougfanblue

10/3/22 10:42am

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