I’ve always been able to see both colors of the dress by changing the size of the image, so the phenomenon “made sense” to me, but I legitimately have no idea how that image is supposed to explain it lol. There’s two different colored dresses with seemingly random parts highlighted with different colored boxes… are they supposed to look the same in the highlighted area or something?
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tae_glas@slrpnk.net 12 hours agothe original photo was much more faded than the one posted here, so people’s colour perception depended on how yellow/blue they perceived the photo’s light to be tinted, and how bright/dark their screens were.
papalonian@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Godnroc@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The connected boxes show that the same color appears on both sides; however, the colored boxes provide context based on the lighting which is further reenforced by the rest of the dress outside the box.
Technology Connections did a video about brown that has the same color of orange on a background that cycles between white and black and the color of orange seems to shift to brown or orange depending on the background.
Windex007@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Id never seen this image before but it’s the clearest and most intuitive illustration of the effect I’ve seen.
Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
I’ve seen the original one back when it was first popular, still couldn’t understand the white and gold people