View Poll Results: What colour is this dress?
Blue and black
19
51.35%
White and gold
18
48.65%
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THAT viral dress... blue and black or white and gold? Come on then...
28 February 2015, 08:26 PM
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THAT viral dress... blue and black or white and gold? Come on then...
It's certainly doing the rounds all over the internet so what colour do you see? Personally I see white and gold (although a very slight blue tint in the white).
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28 February 2015, 08:47 PM
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Agreed - gold/white. Although that blue tint could just be because of low level lighting.
It's weird that half the people see the blue/black. Must be something to do with genes affecting perceived colours, in the same way that you can either roll your tongue or can't.
It's weird that half the people see the blue/black. Must be something to do with genes affecting perceived colours, in the same way that you can either roll your tongue or can't.
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28 February 2015, 09:02 PM
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On my iPhone it's looking white and gold. Very awful dress, I have to say.
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28 February 2015, 09:18 PM
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I love this - all the different views about a photo of a dress
It makes a mockery of all those conspiritards citing/posting some random picture on the internet as "evidence" of some fruitcake theory
when sheeple can't even agree on the colour of a fvcking dress
It makes a mockery of all those conspiritards citing/posting some random picture on the internet as "evidence" of some fruitcake theory
when sheeple can't even agree on the colour of a fvcking dress
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28 February 2015, 09:59 PM
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Seriously, I've had an intense CPD away today, and L discussing mysterious shades of, I mean, of all things, a dress here has put a big toothy smile on my face! I mean, the first thought that came in my head upon seeing this thread was- WTF ??? He's cool, our L. 
He's cool, our L.
28 February 2015, 10:59 PM
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White and gold :-)
01 March 2015, 07:29 AM
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So, I must be one of the odd ones then as it looks white & gold.
Really can't see the black and blue thing.
How does something like this start out, it's all over the net. No wonder the woman from the shop where it can from was so happy in the BBC video I've just watched.
It's supposed to be black and Royal Blue.
Can people who see the dress as black n blue watch the video here http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-...lands-31656935 and tell us whether it looks 'that' blue? At best I can see a blue tinge, but I'd have bet my house on it being nothing like Royal Blue.
Really can't see the black and blue thing.
How does something like this start out, it's all over the net. No wonder the woman from the shop where it can from was so happy in the BBC video I've just watched.
It's supposed to be black and Royal Blue.
Can people who see the dress as black n blue watch the video here http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-...lands-31656935 and tell us whether it looks 'that' blue? At best I can see a blue tinge, but I'd have bet my house on it being nothing like Royal Blue.
01 March 2015, 07:45 AM
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The odd thing now is, after reading some technical explanations and looking at various altered balances of it, I watched one image change to blue n black in front of my eyes. I had to make it out of focus (a bit like doing a magic eye pic) and kept focusing, then pickin out the dark pouts. After a few seconds the dress went to royal blue and black. Even the shawl thing is royal blue!
Now when I look at the original pic, I can see its blue and black but just the photo is really bad.
Now when I look at the original pic, I can see its blue and black but just the photo is really bad.
01 March 2015, 08:27 AM
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01 March 2015, 09:23 AM
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Here's some science:
You'll never get a proper representation of actual colour from a poor quality compressed image taken using a poor quality digital camera and viewed using a LCD/LED TN type monitor. That includes 6bit colour PVA/MVAs too. TNs have poor colour purity.
Also backlighting on LCD panels, be it fluorescent or LED: older more worn out panels can have problems with maintaining white balance (I had one samsung which was blue-white out the box, and a older samsung that went yellow-white when the backlight wore out)
6bit panels - which is the majority of screens (well over 90% in domestic use) only display 262,000 colours and use dithering to achieve the rest. The human eye is touted at being capable of seeing over 1million colours. So viewing something that only has 262,000 colours and uses dithering to achieve the rest is going to cause confusion.
True colour 24 2bits...which is 16.7 million colours.....no modern run of the mill digital monitor, phone or tablet in this land displays that. You may have some hope with an old good quality CRT monitor, these being analogue mean they "can" show as many colours as the graphics card can output - so long as the phosphor hasn't worn out, which will cause a shift in colour-purity (which was the demise of my old huge Hitachi
)
So when you look at a picture you have to ask...is my screen showing the right colours? It probably isn't. But its close enough not to matter...until cases like this
Point I'm trying to make is picture/colour quality of many screens has took a big leap backwards to satisfy the consumer hunger for thin and light panels. You can make the same argument for Digtial cameras and JPEG processing too.
You'll never get a proper representation of actual colour from a poor quality compressed image taken using a poor quality digital camera and viewed using a LCD/LED TN type monitor. That includes 6bit colour PVA/MVAs too. TNs have poor colour purity.
Also backlighting on LCD panels, be it fluorescent or LED: older more worn out panels can have problems with maintaining white balance (I had one samsung which was blue-white out the box, and a older samsung that went yellow-white when the backlight wore out)
6bit panels - which is the majority of screens (well over 90% in domestic use) only display 262,000 colours and use dithering to achieve the rest. The human eye is touted at being capable of seeing over 1million colours. So viewing something that only has 262,000 colours and uses dithering to achieve the rest is going to cause confusion.
True colour 24 2bits...which is 16.7 million colours.....no modern run of the mill digital monitor, phone or tablet in this land displays that. You may have some hope with an old good quality CRT monitor, these being analogue mean they "can" show as many colours as the graphics card can output - so long as the phosphor hasn't worn out, which will cause a shift in colour-purity (which was the demise of my old huge Hitachi
)So when you look at a picture you have to ask...is my screen showing the right colours? It probably isn't. But its close enough not to matter...until cases like this
Point I'm trying to make is picture/colour quality of many screens has took a big leap backwards to satisfy the consumer hunger for thin and light panels. You can make the same argument for Digtial cameras and JPEG processing too.
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01 March 2015, 09:36 AM
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And FWIW on my lowly 6bit H-IPS panel (advertised as 8bit 
), its white and gold...if you ignore the appalling contrast, the CCD being over-exposed and the camera's processing trying to compensate, not to mention incorrect white balance.
(I'm not a photographer btw so nit-pick away on my use of terms ).
We can have the same argument about which compressed audio format sounds more authentic - the source, processing and output all has an effect on what you perceive (and also a reason why I can't abide Maroon 5 )
), its white and gold...if you ignore the appalling contrast, the CCD being over-exposed and the camera's processing trying to compensate, not to mention incorrect white balance.(I'm not a photographer btw so nit-pick away on my use of terms
).We can have the same argument about which compressed audio format sounds more authentic - the source, processing and output all has an effect on what you perceive (and also a reason why I can't abide Maroon 5 )
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