Gold white dress or blue black. What color is this dress: white and gold or blue and black? How do celebrities see the color of a dress
A photo of a dress that a girl from Scotland posted on the Internet divided the whole world into two camps - some see it dress in blue and black, other - in white and gold. Who is right and who is deceived by his sight?
The controversy over the color of the dress erupted after Scottish resident Caitlin McNeil posted a picture of the dress on her blog and asked the question to Internet users: “Help me, is this dress white and gold or blue and black? Me and my friends can't agree and we're going crazy." Within a couple of hours, the photo of the dress was scattered all over the Internet, and the world was divided into two camps: some began to claim that the dress was blue and black, others were sure that it was white and gold.
What color do you think the dress is in the photo?
It should be noted that there are much more people who see the white-gold color (according to numerous surveys on the Internet). In fact, the dress is blue and black - this was confirmed by its owner Caitlin. However, this fact did not close the debate about color.
Why do some people see the dress as blue and others as white?
When asked why someone sees blue-black, and someone white-gold color in the photo of the dress, scientists tried to answer. The human retina consists of two types of photoreceptors - cones and rods. The rods are more sensitive to light and are responsible for perceiving the shape rather than the color of objects. Cones, on the contrary, are responsible for the perception of color, and not for the degree of illumination of the object. In other words, in the dark we perceive the world with rods rather than cones.
Yes, susceptibility colors depends on what is more in the human retina - cones or rods, as well as on how the object is illuminated. “Our visual system is used to rejecting information about the light source and scooping information about the actual reflected light. I have been studying individual color vision for 30 years, and in this case I see the most differences in individual perceptions of all that I have seen, ”says Jay Neitz, a neuroscientist from Washington.
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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 and black, for others it is 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 same photo of the dress, because of which there are so many disputes:
According to some, the original dress, if the lighting was better, should look like this:
The rest 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 on this subject, 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 decide that the dress is underlit (or that its surface is highly reflective) and their brain signals to their eyes to compensate. Hence the white and gold color. Others think that there is too much light 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 Adelson optical illusion. In the picture, square "A" is the same color as square "B", although it seems that this is not the case.
In general, it turns out that the human eye sees the image as the brain perceives it. Past experience is also important. If a person has seen a fabric with a similar texture or a similar dress in a certain color, this will most likely affect what color they see in the photo with the dress. Little is known about this phenomenon called "difference in perception" by scientists.
Here is a photo of the actual dress. It still turned out to be blue and black.
Do you believe what you see? Especially for you - pictures that deceive the eyesight and the brain.
What color is this dress?
This dress (by the way, what color is it?) blew up the Internet and in a matter of hours divided the world into two camps. For those who have spent the last few days in a coma, here is a brief summary of what happened. The author of the photo posted it on Tumblr with the question "What color is this dress?". However, it was not possible to get a unanimous answer: some see in this photo a blue dress with black lace inserts, brightly lit with electric warm light, others claim that the dress is white, the inserts are golden, and the dress itself is in the shade.
The dress became a meme in no time and has already managed to bore everyone endlessly. However, in the end, this illusion is just a demonstration of one of the many ways to deceive imperfect human vision. We have collected 16 more optical illusions that will make you disbelieve your eyes.
Checkerboard Shadow Illusion: Cells A and B are actually the same color!
"Neon" color spread: neon lines make us think that the central area in the picture is painted over with light blue. In fact, the background is equally white everywhere.
Troxler Effect: If you stare at the red dot long enough without blinking, the green circle will disappear.
White's Illusion: The gray stripes under A and B are actually the same color!
Apparent movement: due to the contrast of colors and shapes, we think that the figures are moving, but the image is absolutely static.
Flickering grid: if you look at the picture, it will seem to you that black dots appear and disappear at the intersections. In reality, all dots are white.
Watercolor Illusion: The light color lines on the inside of the shape make it look like the orange is fading into white, but this is an illusion.
Tile illusion: The horizontal lines are straight and parallel to each other, but the human eye sees them as going at an angle.
Purple Fighter: A more impressive demonstration of the Troxler effect. If you keep looking at the black cross, the motionless purple circles disappear, only the moving green circle remains.
Spinning Ballerina: Is the girl spinning clockwise or counterclockwise? It depends on which foot your brain considers as a fulcrum.
Zellner Illusion: In this drawing, the long lines appear to be non-parallel because the short lines are at an angle to each other. However, in reality they are parallel.
Sander's Parallelogram: The diagonal on the left side of the picture appears to be much longer than the diagonal on the right, but they are actually the same length.
Scotland News. The photo of this dress literally blew up the Internet. Thousands of people around the world are arguing about the color of the dress in the photo posted on the social network.
The photo was posted a day ago by Scottish singer Kathleen MacNeil.
Kathleen McNeil, singer:
Two of my close friends are about to get married. And the mother of the bride sent her a photo of this dress. When the bride showed the dress to the groom, they argued over its color.
And rushed. The picture, along with the hashtag #TheDress, topped the top trends of American Twitter. Stars of the first magnitude argue about the color of the dress. Jimmy Fallon, Julianne Moore, Kim Kardashian see the dress as white and gold, while Taylor Swift, James Franco, Kanye West see it as black and blue.
Taylor Swift, singer
I don't understand why this strange dress gets so much attention, and I feel like there's some kind of trick here. I'm scared and confused.P.S. It is blue and black.
Julianne Moore, actress:
Guys, what's wrong with you! It is white and blue. It is obvious!
In fact, the dress is blue and black. After the international community started a dispute about the color of the product, it was swept away from the shelves of online stores in a matter of hours.
Why does everyone see the dress differently, ophthalmologists tried to explain. The dress is seen as blue-black or white-gold depending on the lighting conditions in the room.
In addition, a person is able to distinguish colors thanks to visual receptors, namely special cone cells that process the incoming signal, process it into an impulse and send it further along the optic nerve to the brain.
Jay Neitz, neuroscientist at the University of Washington:
Our visual system is accustomed to reject information about the light source and draw information about the actual reflected light. I have been studying individual color vision for 30 years and in this case I see the most differences in individual perceptions of all that I have seen.
Ophthalmologists assure: a different perception of the color of a dress does not mean that you have problems with your eyes or, God forbid, with your psyche.
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 human brain determines the color by reflected light. Objects around can also reflect color and affect perception. In this photo, there are many other colors around and they mix, and the brain cannot immediately determine the color of the dress.
If, say, a person looks at a dress in bright light, then leaves for half an hour in a dark room and returns, then most likely the color of the dress will change for him.
However, if you increase the brightness of the smartphone or monitor screen, you can see how the dress changes color from white-gold to blue-black.
Optical illusion is creatively used by artists. For example, drawings created using the "anamorphosis" technique look like meaningless or surreal abstractions. But it is worth putting a shiny metal cylinder in a certain place - and the picture, reflected in it, takes on a clear realistic outline. See for yourself. Photo and
For many days the whole world has plunged into one big dispute: what color is the dress - blue and black or white and gold?
It all started with the fact that the Scottish singer Caitlin McNeil, under the nickname Swiked, posted a simple photo of a dress on Tumblr. In the caption, the girl explained that she and her friends could not understand what color it was:
- People, help! Is this dress white and gold or blue and black? My friends and I can't agree. And it drives us crazy!
And after a few hours, millions of people were divided into two camps: some claimed that the outfit was blue and black (#blacknblue), while others - that it was white and gold (#goldandwhite). The color of the dress even got its own hashtag #TheDress, which topped the top trends in the world.
But even after the girl confirmed that it was indeed blue with black stripes, the debate on the network did not stop.
Even the stars argued on Twitter:
Kim Kardashian:
What color is this dress? I see white with gold, and Kanye saw blue with black. So what color is it?
Taylor Swift:
I don't understand this debate about the color of the dress. I'm scared already. PS: it's blue and black!
What does the #goldandwhite team think?
Looking at the picture, people who thought the dress was white and gold most likely paid attention to the background. Taking bright backlight for sunlight, they decided that the dress was in the shade, which means that its light areas should change tone towards a bluish tint.
What does the blue-black team (#blacknblue) think?
"Blue-blacks", on the other hand, look at the light areas of the dress out of context and clearly state that they are bluish or blue, while instead of the "golden" fragments in the picture, they see black, keeping in mind the effect when due to bright light under at a certain angle, black becomes rusty brown or even golden.
Thus, an amazing construction is obtained, in which one conflicting side defends its direct observations, and the other - forecasts.
Experts explain that such a different perception is due to the structure of the eye of each person, as well as the calibration of the monitor on which he looks at this dress, and the lighting of the room in which he is located. At the same time, experts unanimously say that such a discrepancy in colors is extremely rare.
This is physics. In other words, in the case of photography, people take the light in the background for sunlight and conclude that the dress is in the shade, which means that its light areas should become bluish. So, there is no pure white color, however, our brain thinks out for us the whiteness of the snow or the dress.
Others do not take into account the light in the background and see a blue dress. They call gold fragments black, because they remember that if you look at a black object in the bright sun, you can see gold.
Ophthalmologists in their own way explained the reason for what is happening:
Your retina is made up of "rods" and "cones" that convert light stimuli into nerve stimulation. They convert the signal differently. The wands are more sensitive to light, see shadows, and work better in the dark. "Cones" are sensitive to color, but less sensitive to light. That is, in low light conditions, you see more "rods" than "cones".
The dress appears blue/black or white/gold depending on whether your eye has more "rods" or "cones" and the lighting conditions in the room. (This is made possible by the different colors that mix around you.) Different people have different "rod" and "cone" remnants - those with color blindness are the first to suffer.
But the "rods" are also very sensitive to light. The rods detect color using a pigment called rhodopsin, which is very sensitive to low light but flares out and is destroyed at higher light levels. And it should take about 45 minutes to readjust (how your eyes take time to adjust to the night, in other words). In principle, if you look at a dress in bright light and see one color, then if you go into a dark room for half an hour and return, the dress will quite possibly change color.
