| I edited my reply to vacri since your comment was posted which better explains my thinking on the subject so I don't want to be redundant but a funny thing happened. I was looking for the the some of the articles and videos I saw that had pissed me off because their titles implied optical illusions explain this phenomena with science so I could explain that my "because science" comment wasn't meant to be dismissive or refute proven scientific theories but was based more on the fact that they were "proving" things with untested hypotheses with regard to this scenario, and as I started watching one of the videos, the dress appeared black and blue to me. And I realized I was watching the video on my phone vs the laptop I had previously used. Unlike my laptop, my phone's screen dims based on ambient light and lower levels were bringing out different hues in the image. My laptop also has auto color temperature adjustment based on the time of day which was affecting my perception. Based on different screens I could see the exact same image side by side looking both black and blue and white and gold and realized there may be exogenous variables not included in the explanations that had previously upset me. In my original comment to the article, I was reacting to the fact that people were trying to explain how why people were incorrectly interpreting the black and blue dress as white and gold because their mind is playing tricks on them based on optical illusions which generally work the opposite way. Like you, I saw white and gold, I have been tested as having perfect color vision, know that fashion designers commonly rip styles off and given the contextual lighting, the image looked like it could have been of a knock-off in tiajuana and I didn't like that the only evidence that the dress is black and blue were the claims and evidence presented by a satirical musician submitting content on a blog representing another woman and a company with an identical dress who stands to profit quite a bit from this publicity this has generated and as honest Abe said, you can't believe everything on the internet. But after seeing the image side by side looking differently on different screens, I am at peace with dressgate and think everyone is right about the two sets of colors seen, though I still think other explanations like solarization, the dress actually being white and gold but photographed to capture a blue hue, or screen discrepency should not be dismissed because optical illusions are a real thing and disagree with one hypothesis being advertised to summarily explain such a contentious phenomena because there is proven evidence to make that one idea plausible. |