C&P from ML: Please explain this to me

[meshaliuknits]

Feb 26, 2015 22:07:42 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

It reminds me of this illusion - is she spinning right or left?

Not at all b/c I'm on my phone.

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[FloFTW]

I've never seen blue and black.

[AJL]

Feb 26, 2015 22:07:42 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

It reminds me of this illusion - is she spinning right or left?

Dangit! She just switched. She was going left and then I scrolled down and who ever quoted the gif made her go right!

 

[penguingrrl]

Feb 26, 2015 22:07:05 GMT -5 AJL said:

Feb 26, 2015 21:59:02 GMT -5 karinothing said:

Oh it looks blue in this. Did you change the color or just put it on the llama. Someone needs to put it on a blue back ground stat!

No editing on the dress at all. It's the exact picture that everyone's freaking out about. It's blue and black.

Even on the llama I'm seeing white and gold. In fact, it nicely matches his fur.

[penguingrrl]

Feb 26, 2015 22:07:42 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

It reminds me of this illusion - is she spinning right or left?

She's spinning clockwise.

[Deleted]

I only see blue and black. I don't see white and gold at all.

[josieposy]

This is how we celebrate net neutrality.

USA! USA!!

[MrsAxilla]

Feb 26, 2015 22:14:16 GMT -5 penguingrrl said:

Feb 26, 2015 22:07:42 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

It reminds me of this illusion - is she spinning right or left?

She's spinning clockwise.

lol.  No, counter-clockwise!

[penguingrrl]

Feb 26, 2015 22:16:14 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

Feb 26, 2015 22:14:16 GMT -5 penguingrrl said:

She's spinning clockwise.

lol.  No, counter-clockwise!

I still see clockwise lol! Okay, so I'm clockwise and white and gold. You're counter-clockwise and what colors? Maybe there's a pattern...

[humpty]

Feb 26, 2015 22:18:37 GMT -5 penguingrrl said:

Feb 26, 2015 22:16:14 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

lol.  No, counter-clockwise!

I still see clockwise lol! Okay, so I'm clockwise and white and gold. You're counter-clockwise and what colors? Maybe there's a pattern...

I'm clockwise and blue and black.

[lya]

I see white/gold and H sees blue/black.

We just watched a Brain Games episode and I am inclined to think this is a probable explanation (from the buzzfeed link):

    "You know, the people who make your TV shows look good between filming and the time they hit your screen?

    According to Ben, the photo — taken with a camera phone in poor lighting — casts the whites in a blue tone and mutes the gold to a darker color.

    People who see blue and black are seeing the photo at face value. People who see gold and white are compensating to the photo’s lighting and aesthetic."

Also, H and I zoomed in on different areas of the dress to see if that changed our perceptions.  The only one that changed was when we zoomed in on the top of the dress that is black or gold.  The left half looks darker than the right half.  When we zoomed in on just the right half, H saw gold instead of black.

[MrsAxilla]

Feb 26, 2015 22:18:37 GMT -5 penguingrrl said:

Feb 26, 2015 22:16:14 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

lol.  No, counter-clockwise!

I still see clockwise lol! Okay, so I'm clockwise and white and gold. You're counter-clockwise and what colors? Maybe there's a pattern...

I saw gold and white at first, then it changed to blue and black (before I read those buzzfeed articles). 

Also, the dancer changes directions.  Or, at least she appears to.

[cc]

I've only seen blue and black until the llama one which is looking white and gold to me.

[pixy0stix]

I saw white and gold first, then blue and black. I showed my stylist and she say white and gold and thought I was messing with her when I said I could see the blue and black.

[EllieArroway]

I can make the dancer switch directions.

[MrsAxilla]

DH: "There is NO WAY that is gold and white! You're tripping". Lol. My trip is short.

[runforrest]

This is how Putin invades and we are all sent to a gulag. We are distracted...Thanks Obama!

[meshaliuknits]

My sister is wigging out that no one in my house who can articulate colors sees white.

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[ijack]

Try as I might I can't make that dress black and blue. Like every trick that people say makes it change, still white and gold.
But I can easily make her dancer switch directions.

[picksthemusic]

Blue and black.

[ajj]

Feb 26, 2015 21:59:02 GMT -5 karinothing said:

Feb 26, 2015 21:55:47 GMT -5 AJL said:

Oh it looks blue in this. Did you change the color or just put it on the llama. Someone needs to put it on a blue back ground stat!

It looks white and gold like this, to me. It looked white/gold originally to me, but after seeing the blue/black I can't get the original to look white/gold again. This is insanity. 

DS said white/yellow.

[SallyJ]

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[sandsonik]

Feb 26, 2015 21:23:20 GMT -5 EloiseWeenie said:

For the white/gold people, try looking at it by scrolling up instead of down. That's when it flipped for me.

It's still white and gold for me, no matter how I scroll or where I focus.

I can almost see a light blue because of the lighting, but there's no way in hell I can turn that gold into black!

[sandsonik]

Holy crap! It just changed to blue and black for me. I can't believe it. I was on the buzz feed site and looking at that black and blue dress and scrolled back up (like the other poster said) to the white and gold dress - and it had changed!

[sandsonik]

Feb 26, 2015 22:16:14 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

Feb 26, 2015 22:14:16 GMT -5 penguingrrl said:

She's spinning clockwise.

lol.  No, counter-clockwise!

clockwise for me. And I hope she doesn't change directions because my mind has been fucked with enough for one night!

[polarbearfans]

Blue and green... How are people seeing white?

[alexithymia]

When I see the whole dress, it's white and gold. If I scroll it so just the bottom half of the dress is showing, I see blue and black.

[meshaliuknits]

Feb 26, 2015 23:29:37 GMT -5 polarbearfans said:

Blue and green... How are people seeing white?

Green?

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[josieposy]

I'm really struggling with this white and gold thing. Who would buy that? To go as She-Ra to the prom or something?

[elleblue]

It's okay, stop freaking out. There's a logical explanation. link