Are you following the dress debate?

[Mutt]

WTF? I kept seeing references on Twitter to something about a dress, white and gold versus black and blue, then as I was waking up a couple hours ago I heard a talk radio show talking about a dress - I figured there was some criminal trial I hadn't been following where a dress was evidence or something. So I went to Google and searched for 'dress' and google suggested 'dress debate' and there I found what all the hubbub was about.

Jesus, what a ridiculous debate.

[ReggieDurango]

It's white and gold!

[pornmasta]

a lot of things are getting ridiculous nowadays

[DVTimes]

BBC News - Is this dress white and gold or blue and black?

[beerptrol]

If my life ever becomes so pathetic that I have to debate others about a dress...

[baddog]

I found it pretty interesting as I heard about it all day but did not see it until last night on TV. I thought the color of the dress was pretty clear until I asked goodgirl what color she saw and discovered we definitely saw different colors.

I thought it was some kind of game like when we were kids and would tell my brother we could not see him after wiping vanishing cream on him.

[oppoten]

[Rochard]

Yeah, NO. I have better things to do with my time.

[RyuLion]

Originally Posted by pornmasta

a lot of things are getting ridiculous nowadays

[iwantchixx]

The photo has TERRIBLE white balance so on a corrected monitor, it shows up blue and gold for me.

[Choopa Phil]

When I look at the dress it starts out white/gold and then slowly darkens and transitions to blue and black. Or if I look away from the screen and look back it will switch colors. It freaked me out the first time I looked at it...in all honesty I thought it was a .gif at first.

[Kimmykim]

Amazing what goes viral... I didn't look at FB until I got home late last night and half the posts were about this dumb dress thing.

Who gives a s**t what color it is? It's ugly in any shade.

[The Porn Nerd]

And I care because.......?

[pornmasta]

anyway:
Spectrophotometry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[pornmasta]

Originally Posted by Choopa Phil

When I look at the dress it starts out white/gold and then slowly darkens and transitions to blue and black. Or if I look away from the screen and look back it will switch colors. It freaked me out the first time I looked at it...in all honesty I thought it was a .gif at first.

we have a winner.
I guess it is related to the lcd screens

[baddog]

Originally Posted by pornmasta

we have a winner.
I guess it is related to the lcd screens

Why do two people looking at the same screen at the same time see different colors?

[dyna mo]

Originally Posted by baddog

Why do two people looking at the same screen at the same time see different colors?

the first I heard about all this was this article yesterday that popped up on my newsfeed.

The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Color of This Dress | WIRED

[clickity click]

Yeah, I heard about it and just searched 'dress' on Google and it was in the news.

I saw white and gold but the wife sees blue and black.

We then saw 3 pics with the original in the middle, a white balance to the left and an enhanced to the right. She (the wife) pointed to the middle and said that's the one she saw in the other pic.
I said that's white and gold and she said no it's blue and gold.

We nearly got into an agument over it.

[oppoten]

This isn't organic viral. It was re-posted by Buzzfeed, which has an army of "affiliates" promoting it on social media.

I've been watching their growth on Twitter, watching the people who push them. It's an interesting study in how a controlled media organization can masquerade as being organic and cool, and how the journalistic types who promote it can blend in without arousing suspicion.

The BBC report sums it up well

So is this a story of social media empowering the individual, giving ordinary people access to a global audience? Not quite. Really, it was old-fashioned media competition that drove the viral trend. The dramatic spike in conversation only took place in the wake of the Buzzfeed article. Its popularity on that site prompted a string of copycat articles on the news sites belonging to more established, as media outlets bid to exploit the huge spike in web traffic. The dress is a classical optical illusion, and that's why people love it. But it was big brand publishers getting in on the act and writing about it - kind of like the blog post that you've just read - that made it go viral.

BBC News - Why everyone is asking: What colour is this dress?'

[Penny24Seven]

If you take the time to read it and understand what it is really about you will see what all the buzz is about. It is not people playing a trick or anything like that which is what 99% think and even I did at first because to me it was not black and blue and I thought anyone who said it was was just being a fucking tool LOL

make sure you are looking at the right picture and not one that was changed. That is the pic that people will see as different colors

[ErectMedia]

Not a single FAP was given.

[Mutt]

Originally Posted by oppoten

This isn't organic viral. It was re-posted by Buzzfeed, which has an army of "affiliates" promoting it on social media.

I've been watching their growth on Twitter, watching the people who push them. It's an interesting study in how a controlled media organization can masquerade as being organic and cool, and how the journalistic types who promote it can blend in without arousing suspicion.

The BBC report sums it up well



BBC News - Why everyone is asking: What colour is this dress?'

Buzzfeed has 'affiliates'? As in they pay people to post links to their stories in return for money?

[AdultKing]

Originally Posted by baddog

Why do two people looking at the same screen at the same time see different colors?

The answer is we don't know.

The brain makes interpretations of colour, just like in the grey square demonstration in the gif posted earlier.

It is one theory that some people have greater optical reception of certain parts of the colour spectrum which may explain why some people see the dress as different colours than the blue / black that it really is.

On the perception front, it comes down to the assumptions that the brain makes about what the eyes detect. That's why different people see it as white gold and others see it as blue black.

This colour perception problem is something that scientists the neuroscience and optometry fields have been debating for years and nobody is any closer to fully understanding it.

[AdultKing]

Originally Posted by Mutt

Buzzfeed has 'affiliates'?

Yes they call them partners.

As in they pay people to post links to their stories in return for money?

Not quite:

The “partner” designation you see on some posts and thumbnails on BuzzFeed means that the content is brought to you either by the editorial partnerships that make up the BuzzFeed Network or our advertising partners.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/ad...pXaHJ VU2c6MQ

BuzzFeed Advertise: Content Worth Sharing

[dooglas]

A woman I didn't know came up to me at the grocery store tonight, showed the pic on her phone and asked which colors I saw.

[1215]

I posted a picture of Carlton from Fresh Prince of Belaire and asked "what color is this man?"

[TheSquealer]

Just as with much of our perceptions, simple tricks of the brain divide people and drove them to hostility towards each other.

[Plutocracy]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[mineistaken]

Originally Posted by Kimmykim

Who gives a s**t what color it is? It's ugly in any shade.

People give a shit about the fact that they see completely different colors, it is very interesting fact to them.

[poncabare]

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