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The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Color of This Dress [link only]
Wired [link only] | February 26, 2015 | Adam Rogers

Posted on 02/26/2015 10:17:23 PM PST by grundle

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http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: science

1 posted on 02/26/2015 10:17:23 PM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

The FCC just voted to regulate the Internet, the BATFE is proposing banning bullets, immigration law is being shredded, Obamacare is destroying our healthcare, and the Internet is obsessed with a scam about the color of a friggin dress. Pathetic!


2 posted on 02/26/2015 10:33:20 PM PST by mwilli20 (BO. Making communists proud all over the world.)
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To: grundle

I think it has to do with one’s ability to interpret colours. It literally looks blue, but if you’re thinking along the lines of context (shading or contrast) you might interpret it as white.

However, I could not see the gold bands as anything else than gold. I thought, when I tried to interpret it differently, that I could see a hint of faded leathery black, but that’s as far as I got.


3 posted on 02/26/2015 10:33:27 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: grundle

That was clear as mud!


4 posted on 02/26/2015 10:44:27 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: Jonty30

Few people are completely color blind.

Its rare for humans to see the world in black and white.

But there is an innate preference for certain colors over others.


5 posted on 02/26/2015 11:24:52 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: grundle

Half of the people are below average. This article is an example to prove the point.


6 posted on 02/26/2015 11:33:51 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Jonty30

Gold = orange. It’s really an issue with the image taking and printing processes. Try taking pics of a black lab. It’s often difficult to see any detail.


7 posted on 02/26/2015 11:36:39 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: mwilli20

Panem et circenses.


8 posted on 02/27/2015 12:22:35 AM PST by Organic Panic
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9 posted on 02/27/2015 3:21:40 AM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: grundle

http://www.businessinsider.com/origin-of-white-gold-or-black-blue-dress-2015-2


10 posted on 02/27/2015 3:22:26 AM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: grundle
Visible light is made up of electromagnetic radiation of various wavelengths. It can be precisely defined scientifically, with proper equipment. What a human sees when looking at that light isn't nearly so precise. What he calls what he sees is even less precise. There is no question that two different humans might call it by different names.

So what?

11 posted on 02/27/2015 4:55:36 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: Salamander

I saw a blue dress with gold.


12 posted on 02/27/2015 5:10:54 AM PST by ronniesgal (Good Grief. Posting with my eyes closed and keeping my purse nearby)
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To: ronniesgal

That’s what I saw.


13 posted on 02/27/2015 5:13:16 AM PST by pesto
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To: grundle

Circuses to go with the bread works very well nowadays.


14 posted on 02/27/2015 6:45:20 AM PST by Gritty (To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil. Liars are easy to control-Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: pesto

we’re probably the only 2!


15 posted on 02/27/2015 8:04:48 AM PST by ronniesgal (Good Grief. Posting with my eyes closed and keeping my purse nearby)
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To: grundle

In fact, after studying that picture, it all comes down to this: the background brightness—because it has the slightly yellowish colors of Sun illumination a low angle—completely fooled people into thinking the dress color is white and gold. In short, the color perception is based on us being used to the color gamut shown on color film for still pictures, especially Kodacolor for prints and Kodachrome for slides.


16 posted on 02/27/2015 9:14:38 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Jonty30
I think this is more twitter 'emperor's new clothes' bunk (like Kanye is being nice to some old unknown dude named Paul McCartney).

Took the pic (and tones) into a drawing program. No way in heck is that 'black'.


17 posted on 03/01/2015 6:00:55 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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