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Old 02-27-2015, 01:58 PM   #160
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Actually, I'd disagree with that. In my cube they are forcing context on you, so you see the shadow, and obviously the square in the middle must be brighter, right?

But in the dress picture there's very little context, and so the difference between people's perceptions is explained by the assumptions that they make regardless of whether they know it or not. Different lighting sources will produce completely different colours in that example. So some see blue, others see white.

That's why this is so interesting to me. The picture leaves the brain to assume something that you're not even aware of, and different people make different assumptions.
What I don't understand about the white/gold crowd is how you can see white because there is a context for white in the photo. The top right (beside the dress) is white and the colour to the left of that is blue.

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