Blue & Black or White & Gold?

[Gordon Booth]

Saw this, couldn't understand it- obviously Blue & Black.
Asked my wife-'Cream and Gold'. No hesitation!

Who on Accyweb sees the one, who sees the other? Is it a man/woman thing, an age thing or what?

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

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

[gpick24]

Light blue & gold

[Margaret Pilkington]

Who cares? It is just a blooming frock.
Sorry Gordon

[Accyexplorer]

It looks red to me

[Gordon Booth]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Who cares? It is just a blooming frock.
Sorry Gordon

Yes but what colours do you see, Margaret?

[Margaret Pilkington]

Sorry Gordon, I refuse to be drawn into this inconsequential discussion by even bothering to look at the sodding frock.

It isn't mine, I do not have to choose a bag or shoes to go with it so it doesn't matter.
And if my response sounds all carmudgeonly, I am sorry.......but in the great scheme of things it doesn't amount to much.

[lindsay ormerod]

White and gold.

[Accyexplorer]

So is the dress blue,black or multi coloured....is it something to do with the white balance in our eyes?

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[Gordon Booth]

Originally Posted by Accyexplorer

So is the dress blue,black or multi coloured....is it something to do with the white balance in our eyes?

The dress company says it's blue and black.
I've heard of colour blindness causing problems with green and red(Watch out, traffic lights!) but blue-white, black-gold?
Strange. Makes you wonder what else we all see differently.

[Accyexplorer]

This is the apparent explanation.

"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.

**** UPDATE to prove this theory I turned my phone brightness from the lowest to highest and saw it switching from white and gold (at the lowest) to light blue and darker gold (at the highest) meaning people that see blue and black are more sensitive to light (better eyesight and not looking at the sun like your moms told you)

**Also if you see white and gold sometimes, blue and black another, or a combination of the two, your eyes are very average, and it could change because of YOUR rooms lighting or the tilt of your phone. This is the same manipulation they use for optical illusions"

I thought folk were just highlighting it when they were saying blue

[Restless]

Stop the press!!!!!!!!!

the crap they put on the news. Unreal

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by Restless

Stop the press!!!!!!!!!

Actually Rob, I think they probably use an iron.

[Restless]

Ha!/

[westendlass]

I saw it as white and gold in the morning then it changed to blue and black later. I think someone's playing mind games ( or could it be a very good marketing technique that's got everyone talking?)

[Rowlf]

Well its blue and black to me.