Mysterious Dress. Blue and Black? White and Gold?

[Aqfitz]

So, this popped up on Tumblr a bit ago and everyone is freaking out over what color it is. What do you see.

 

 

Tumblr Post

 

 

[Jeb ★]

you change the lighting and shit it becomes white and yellow. It's black and blue.

[Big_Fat_Matt]

"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 it’s black. ADDITIVE mixing, when you add the three colors 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."

[Crack.]

I see white and gold, where the *Censored* is the black at

[Conundrum]

I see white and gold, but my roommate sees black and blue

[RVF]

It's blue and gold.

[Grenade.]

It's white and gold with my lights on. Black and Blue with them off.

[Crack.]

Everybody in my house saying it's blue and black, I see it's white and gold. Then again I can't see correctly anyway

[sam the d00d]

People have posted links to where you can buy it. It's blue and black I guess. Must just have an intense light on the front to make the black look more gold.

[Grenade.]

gtfo of here with your logic. This dress is magic.

[LEGION]

White and Gold, with blue light/shadow making the white look blue

[Faster Than Light]

you change the lighting and shit it becomes white and yellow. It's black and blue.

 

This in a nutshell. Black and blue

[Crack.]

Looks like Jeb was right, it's gold and blue for me now that my lights are off. Still don't see the black

[Faster Than Light]

the poor quality camera and lighting make it appear to be gold, but it's actually black

[Big_Fat_Matt]

Okay. This thing was white and gold an hour ago. Now it is black and blue. I hate everything,

[classiq.]

This thing is all I've seen for the past 6 hours or so. I don't get it.

[Twisted...]

White and gold with the lights on or off.

[Muur]

Blue and black... how the *Censored* is it anything else

[Future™]

white and gold for me too

 

plot twist: it's a smooth gif that *censored*s everyone's mind

[E#37]

Black and blue.

[Crazy.]

White and gold

[Monkey D. Jiggy]

White and gold. My teammates at the football club all think it's black and blue and think I'm either trolling or in desperate need of medical attention.

[Lyriqz ✪]

White and Gold but it looks blue-ish because of the lighting.

 

The white part seems to be blue-ish all the time because of the light in the picture itself, while the gold/brown part becomes black whenever I shift my view. So I'm gonna guess it's actually the golden tone by default but it's a shade that, depending in light and angle, can appear darker and then it starts to look blue and black.

And after a few seconds with Google, for those who care: http://io9.com/the-what-color-is-this-goddamn-dress-debate-explaine-1688378120

[TrisetMaster908]

Black and Blue

[limitbreak]

is this seriously what tumblr is freaking out about? i gotta get off that site.