Here's an animated GIF that explains why that f*cking dress is so confusing

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Witchcraft!

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Gestalts are a hell of a mind fuck.

Doubtful. They taught me this stuff in a very conservative small town community college.

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That sounds exactly like something a witch would say.

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Thaaaaaat fucking dress isn’t confusing. People are just wrong.

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When color consistency is important. use a color chip card.

Shoot in raw so you can fix the color in post.

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I guess technically we now know that they aren’t seeing the same color we’re seeing wrong, they are seeing the surrounding colors incorrectly, leading them to see the color we know to be true incorrectly.

I now need a lasso tool GIF to explain why people are seeing the reference colors incorrectly. :slight_smile:

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Very obviously white & gold. But I hear dogs are color blind.

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It’s black and blue, and poorly photographed. I bet she uses vertical video too.

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I’m a blue.

I understood why people saw different colours, but was baffled that many couldn’t accept the explanation of how it happened.

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What sorcery is this?

(Team Blue here.)

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Would not the “why not both?” meme apply here?

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See? Completely mistaken.

So, you have this illusion that people should know better…

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As Marvin said “Life… don’t talk to me about life. Here I am, a brain the size of a planet…”

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It’s true. Dogs hear in black and white.

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And they can’t look up.

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A=B

It’s the checker square illusion. Light vs same color in shadow

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