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Some people see this dress as white and gold while others see black and blue

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16 pointsandrewfong12 comments

Here's the most reasonable explanation I've heard:

https://twitter.com/andyrexford/status/571118728164872192/ph...

I looked at this on my iphone, in front of a window at sunset and it was clearly white and gold. I adjusted the brightness settings on my phone and saw no difference.

Now I'm looking at it under florescent lights, and on my computer and iphone it's clearly black and blue. Wow.

Do those people who see it as black and blue have color blindness of some kind? It's quite clearly brown and blue-gray to me. The eye dropper in Paint.Net says the same thing. Not sure how anyone can get black out of this.

I interpret it as black getting colored colored brownish by the camera/lighting. Specifically, if you look on the left you can see another dress which seems to be black/white. And in that area, the lace appears the same color as the black of that dress.

That's exactly it. It's a low-light photo, so colors are distorted. In addition, it looks as though the in the photo is on the yellow/orange side of the spectrum, washing out the blue to make it look white.

The black and blue camp is actually closest to what you see. The differing opinion are those who see it as white and gold.

I see black & blue as well .. but apparently not according to gawker ... their poll has white&gold winning it at 76%

http://gawker.com/what-color-is-this-goddamn-dress-168833017...

I saw white and gold the first time I saw the image, and blue and black the second...

Y'all must have some really whacky device settings or poor eyesight because I can't _not_ see blue and black no matter what device/browser I look at it with or under what conditions.

So do you see the light part of the dress as white? If so, what colors are the cow-print looking clothing just behind this one on the left?

Any one else saw blue and gold? FWIW I'm viewing on an ipad.

I see it as very light blue and as gold. From an eye dropper chrome extension this seems to be the correct color of the photo.

The white or blue part appears to be #8292b3. And the gold or black part appears to be #7b6d48.

http://www.colorpicker.com/8292b3

http://www.colorpicker.com/7b6d48

I think out of the photo people will agree these are blue/gold.

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