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I used computer vision to prove the image shouldn't be perceived as black and blue to us.

http://austingwalters.com/that-dress-is-gold-and-white/

A bit about myself, I've been doing research into this very thing for the past two years at UIUC.

Your analysis is interesting, but it doesn't make sense to "prove" that an image is a certain color. Color is a construct of the mind. Given that so many people claim to see black and blue, you analysis proves only that your model of vision is insufficient to explain human experience.

I hope you’re joking. Speaking as someone who has spent many hundreds of hours reading color science papers, and another several thousand hours color-correcting photos in CIELAB space, your analysis is absurd.

If you ever come to San Francisco, I’ll be happy to explain why over a coffee.

Perhaps I went a bit eccentric, the same way the news stories were going :)

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