Is this dress white/gold or black/blue

[Brian]

No clue if this is real science or just some random internet theory. I have light sensitive eyes, but can see very well at night. My wife is the opposite. Been a while since I had my anatomy and physiology class though. It does say I'm high functioning and you white/gold guys are lame though, so I'm going to believe it.


"Your eyes have retinas, the things that let you interpret color. There's rods, round things, and cones that stick out, which is what gives your eye a textured appearance in the colored part. The "cones" see color. The "rods" see shade, like black, white and grey. Cones only work when enough light passes through. So while I see the fabric as white, someone else may see it as blue because my cones aren't responding to the dim lighting. My rods see it as a shade (white).

There's three cones: small, medium and large. They are blue sensitive, green sensitive, and red sensitive.

As for the black bit (which I see as gold), it's called additive mixing. Blue, green and red are the main colors for additive mixing. This is where it gets really tricky. Subtractive mixing, such as with paint, means the more colors you add the murkier it gets until its black. ADDITIVE mixing, when you add the three colors the eyes see best, red, green and blue, (not to be confused with primary colors red, blue and yellow) it makes pure white.

—Blue and Black: In conclusion, your retina's cones are more high functioning, and this results in your eyes doing subtractive mixing.

—White and Gold: our eyes don't work well in dim light so our retinas rods see white, and this makes them less light sensitive, causing additive mixing, (that of green and red), to make gold."

[MrPrena]

I just saw this on car forum.

I see white/gold.
Reflection of the light is just too dimm. You can see brown, blue, whatever.

[TheGrey]

No clue if this is real science or just some random internet theory. I have light sensitive eyes, but can see very well at night. My wife is the opposite. Been a while since I had my anatomy and physiology class though. It does say I'm high functioning and you white/gold guys are lame though, so I'm going to believe it.


"Your eyes have retinas, the things that let you interpret color. There's rods, round things, and cones that stick out, which is what gives your eye a textured appearance in the colored part. The "cones" see color. The "rods" see shade, like black, white and grey. Cones only work when enough light passes through. So while I see the fabric as white, someone else may see it as blue because my cones aren't responding to the dim lighting. My rods see it as a shade (white).

There's three cones: small, medium and large. They are blue sensitive, green sensitive, and red sensitive.

As for the black bit (which I see as gold), it's called additive mixing. Blue, green and red are the main colors for additive mixing. This is where it gets really tricky. Subtractive mixing, such as with paint, means the more colors you add the murkier it gets until its black. ADDITIVE mixing, when you add the three colors the eyes see best, red, green and blue, (not to be confused with primary colors red, blue and yellow) it makes pure white.

—Blue and Black: In conclusion, your retina's cones are more high functioning, and this results in your eyes doing subtractive mixing.

—White and Gold: our eyes don't work well in dim light so our retinas rods see white, and this makes them less light sensitive, causing additive mixing, (that of green and red), to make gold."

That's a whole lot of fancy talk for someone who's wrong. It's white and gold.

[Irving]

We both see blue/black. I'm pretty good at colors. There is a color game to test this. Let me dig it up real quick. Blendo is a fun app too.

Here is one, not the one I was looking for though.
http://xritephoto.com/ph_toolframe.aspx?action=coloriq

Here is just a straight color blind test.

http://colorvisiontesting.com/ishihara.htm

[MrPrena]

That's a whole lot of fancy talk for someone who's wrong. It's white and gold.

Yup. I disagree with the analysis of Blue&Black and White&gold. Although if you just simply analyze the damn spectrospcope crap on visual light spectrum junk on the picture (which lack of dim reflection), it might come out different colors on all specific areas. We have seen some terrible pictures with horrible colors on eBay listings, and we have been through a lot of photos in the internet. Therefore I will guess white and gold with crappy light reflection which will bring Brown, blue, black, gray, etc.

[mahabali]

I dont see how anyone could that that was blue and black.

[TheGrey]

We both see blue/black. I'm pretty good at colors. There is a color game to test this. Let me dig it up real quick. Blendo is a fun app too.

Here is one, not the one I was looking for though.
http://xritephoto.com/ph_toolframe.aspx?action=coloriq

Here is just a straight color blind test.

http://colorvisiontesting.com/ishihara.htm

I'm good with color, too. It's weird how we see different colors.

[MrPrena]

Those theories are no science. Only way it can be science is to bring the darn computer screen to the spectroscopy area by area, and find out the wavelength to find the actual area within acceptable dE/E. That will determine the TRUE color of the "photograph" projected on the screen. Actual color of the dress would be unknown until we see a better picture.

[02ducky]

More info from Reddit if you guys were interested.

http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/c...me_people_see/

[MrPrena]

What the heck. I see Blue/Brown now.
Just moments ago, it was White/Gold.