Right cause it's not a question of what colour the pixels are, it's a question of what you see. The takeaway from this whole exercise is that your senses aren't at all like many people think. Perception can be manipulated and what you "see" is a mental model constructed and maintained in your brain rather than an image projected by a lens like a camera.
People are, as you say, subconsciously accounting for things.. but even subconscious is maybe not the best wording, it's just the way the brain works.
Like the cube that V posted.
Or here's another one:
The cubes are the exact same colour.
This one illusion has always bugged me because it's a little bit rigged. The correct description isn't that they're the exact same colour, it should be 90% of the bottom square is the same colour as the top one.
It's playing tricks with your eyes, yes, but it's doing so by changing the colour of the top of the bottom square.
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It's putting in a gradient to make it look 3D, filling the same role as the shadow in the other ones, the gradient adds information to make the brain perceive it a certain way.
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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.
Exactly, the brain has to make sense of it somehow (it can't just leave the image uninterpreted). Heck the colour of the bezel of the device it's viewed on, or the background of the website you see it on, if it's day or night, etc.
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It's putting in a gradient to make it look 3D, filling the same role as the shadow in the other ones, the gradient adds information to make the brain perceive it a certain way.
Sure, but this one time let's just pretend I was right and you were wrong so I can finally cross "correcting photon" off my bucket list. I've been trying for years, to no avail.
The fact that the colors will switch on people leads me to the conclusion that physiological/psychological effects are also taking place and it's not simply context or a static set up like in an optical illusion.
I'm pretty sure that when I wake up in the morning, that the dress will be blue/black again because my eyes will be rested and my rods aren't strained from a day of staring at screens.
First break at work this morning, I'd say about 2/3 saw blue and black, rest white and gold.
Our HSE coordinator and myself saw a lavender / purplish blue and brownish "penny like" colour. We make the rules!
That's what I see on the original photo as well.
On Acey's post above I see the first as sort of medium "penny-like" and very light blue, the second as brownish and lavender, and the third as black and blue.
I get how people can get gold out of the black area, because of the lighting there is a visible gold tinge to it but it still registers to me as black. But somehow getting white from the rest of it? My mind can't grasp that one, no matter how I look at it there's no way I see anything but blue
I get how people can get gold out of the black area, because of the lighting there is a visible gold tinge to it but it still registers to me as black. But somehow getting white from the rest of it? My mind can't grasp that one, no matter how I look at it there's no way I see anything but blue
Well, I know I'm suppose to see black and blue, but all I see is white and gold. Tried all the different exercises in the thread, still see white and gold.
