Well, here's a debate worthy of Fratching.
Of all the contentious debates I've seen on the Internet, last night's was over a friggen dress.
Some people see the dress as white and gold, others as blue and black. Before you think it might be some form of color blindness or some kind of personal bias, note that some people have seen both at different times. People have surmised it's due to the lighting in the room you are in when you see the dress, or your brightness settings on your display. Some even claim it depends on your mood.
Now, personally, I can see both sides to the blue vs. white debate. While the dress looks white or off-white, I see a bluish tint to the dress. This tint is so subtle I could theorize the cause to be from flourescent lighting or perhaps a bright blue object behind the camera.
However, I have never, ever seen how the yellow/brown/gold part could ever be construed as black. For me, it's so clear that it's not dark enough to be black, it's not unsaturated enough to lack any color, and I've even tweaked it in photoshop to make it grey scale, and that simply makes those lacy stripey things clearly grey and not black. I've turned my brightness down on my laptop, and I still don't see it black. I can definitely see how the white turns more blue, though.
I could see how people might say it's more brown than gold, but not at all black. What am I missing here?
Of all the contentious debates I've seen on the Internet, last night's was over a friggen dress.
Some people see the dress as white and gold, others as blue and black. Before you think it might be some form of color blindness or some kind of personal bias, note that some people have seen both at different times. People have surmised it's due to the lighting in the room you are in when you see the dress, or your brightness settings on your display. Some even claim it depends on your mood.
Now, personally, I can see both sides to the blue vs. white debate. While the dress looks white or off-white, I see a bluish tint to the dress. This tint is so subtle I could theorize the cause to be from flourescent lighting or perhaps a bright blue object behind the camera.
However, I have never, ever seen how the yellow/brown/gold part could ever be construed as black. For me, it's so clear that it's not dark enough to be black, it's not unsaturated enough to lack any color, and I've even tweaked it in photoshop to make it grey scale, and that simply makes those lacy stripey things clearly grey and not black. I've turned my brightness down on my laptop, and I still don't see it black. I can definitely see how the white turns more blue, though.
I could see how people might say it's more brown than gold, but not at all black. What am I missing here?
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