Not since Monica Lewinsky was a White House intern has one blue dress been the source of so much consternation. (And yes, it’s blue.) The fact that a single image could polarize the entire Internet into two aggressive camps is, let’s face it, just another Thursday. But for the past half-day, peopleacross social media have been arguing about whether a picture depicts a perfectly nice bodycon dress as blue with black lace fringe or white with gold lace fringe. And neither side will budge. This fight is about more than just social media—it’s about primal biology and the way human eyes and brains have evolved to see color in a sunlit world.
That white/gold or blue/black dress post is fucking me up because it’s making me question my ability to color and how others perceive the colors in my art.
Like what looks good to me might look completely wrong to other people? I remember doing that color test and…
I think part of what messes with people is that the dress appears to be backlit, and logically a backlit garment would be a shadowed out hue of whatever the colour would look like under neutral light, in yellow sunlight light, the shadowed white would look blue-ish and the gold would be brownish. But the dress is actually fairly washed out in the photo and appearing lighter instead of backlit, so it messes with what people expect. it’s like that checkerboard illusion where a white and black panel are actually the same colour if you directly sample them.
(I had a really hard time seeing the black and blue in the dress until I saw a picture someone found of the dress under normal light and my eyes like, adjusted to the lighting in the photo)
Okay so I actually took the image and adjusted it in an image program so it matched the colors a lot more closely to the real one
and now that I’ve done that ALL I CAN SEE IS THE BLUE AND BLACK IN THE ORIGINAL.
This is fucked up. I’m still left questioning how this reflects in specific use of color in art but either way what a fascinating experience given to us by a shitty camera.
The “Royal Blue” dress? Is not the one in the photo.
The explanation several news sites have used about “additive mixing” is just blatant bullshit. You can’t make black look gold without paint.
The blue people are seeing in the original is also very easily explained. Shadow makes white things look pale blue. Shadow does NOT make dark blue look white. Shadow makes dark blue look black. Shadow also does not make black look gold. Shadow makes black look black.
What we are seeing is either a discontinued older version of the same dress, in white, with gold lace, or we are seeing a dress that someone had altered with gold lace replacing the black.
Lastly, the illusion with the “A” and “B” squares above only works when there is sharp contrast immediately adjacent to the squares. Here’s the shadow illusion with the “A” and “B” squares each bumped up 250% in scale:
Sorry to break it to you, but it’s blue and black.
The photo is extremely washed out because it’s extremely backlit. (I see this shit a lot working in photo retouching) The blacks aren’t showing up well, because the photo is blown out.
Where there that there are shadows, but we don’t have any black blacks registering on the histogram.
Now, I’ll push the darks a bit and see what happens…
Good, we can see the blacks, and the blues are coming through clearly.
But, I’ll play with the levels a bit more…
And there we go. True colors revealed.
There is also a thing called white balance, if the camera selected a white point from the background, and the background is daylight, then the incandescent light reflecting off the lace is going to look extremely warm:
The blue areas of the dress reflect more of the daylight and suppress the orange light from the incandescent light and your brain reads “gold and white”
You don’t get vaccinated just to protect yourself. You do it to protect others.
Six of the cases were in infants too young to have been vaccinated.
Six of the cases were in infants too young to have been vaccinated.
Six of the cases were in infants too young to have been vaccinated.
Six of the cases were in infants too young to have been vaccinated.
“The measles vaccine is not licensed for use on babies younger than 12 months. That means that, for the first year of life, babies depend on the fact that everybody else around them gets vaccinated. This essentially creates a firewall: if other people are vaccinated, they won’t catch the disease — and won’t spread it to young children who cannot get protection.
This is what scientists call “herd immunity,” and its a huge reason we get vaccines in the first place. The shots aren’t just about protecting ourselves from measles, mumps, the flu, or other diseases. They’re about making it really hard for those who are medically frail (like the elderly) and those who can’t get the vaccine (often babies and pregnant women) to catch a disease that could be devastating to them. The vaccinated people form something like a fence around the vulnerable people, making it extra hard for the disease to come in.”
This is why everyone who CAN safely be vaccinated NEEDS to be vaccinated.
Not vaccinating for religious reasons, or because of misleading, debunked, ableist “concerns” about the “safety” of vaccines is horrific, unethical, and dangerous to everyone who comes in contact with you.
Measles is the reason I have astigmatism. (Well, measles promptly followed by chicken pox.) Got `em before I could get vaccinated and now I wear corrective lenses all the time.
People want to forget that these are diseases that can have permanent, negative effects on others, because “oh, vaccination is my choice.” Well, you’re not just choosing disability, disfigurement, and possible death for your children. You’re choosing it for the children of others.
Cut it the fuck out.
This is a thing too:
The most remarkable thing about the virus, however, is that it’s incredibly indestructible. A person with measles can cough in a room, leave, and — if you were unvaccinated — hours later, you can catch the virus from the droplets in the air that they left behind. No other virus can do that. It also lives on surfaces for hours, finding new hosts in the unimmunized.
CLUE 1: “Went to Short Dog’s house, They was watching Yo MTV RAPS” Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2: Ice Cube’s single Today Was A Good Day was released on: Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3: ”The Lakers beat the SuperSonics” Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release of the single FEBRUARY 23 1993 where the Lakers beat the SuperSonics: Nov 11 1988 114-103 Nov 30 1988 110-106 Apr 4 1989 115-97 Apr 23 1989 121-117 Jan 17 1990 100-90 Feb 28 1990 112-107 Mar 25 1990 116-94 Apr 17 1990 102-101 Jan 18 1991 105-96 Mar 24 1991 113-96 Apr 21 1991 103-100 Jan 20 1992 116-110
CLUE 4: Dates of those Lakers won over SuperSonics where it was a clear day with no Smog: Nov 30 1988 Apr 4 1989 Jan 18 1991 Jan 20 1992
CLUE 5: “Got a beep from Kim, and She can fuck all night” Beepers weren’t adopted by mobile phone companies until the 1990s. Dates left where mobile beepers were available to public: Jan 18 1991 Jan 20 1992
CLUE 6: Ice Cube starred in the film “Boyz in the hood” that released late Summer of 1991, but was being filmed mid-late 1990 early 1991 and Ice Cube was busy on set filming the movie Jan 18 1991, too busy to be lounging around the streets with no plans. Ladies and Gentlemen..
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