Color test

[SrslySirius]

I've always sucked at this sort of thing. I've never been able to see magic eyes, and I struggled really hard with this optical illusion when I first saw it.



I still have to concentrate a lot to make her start spinning counter clockwise.

Off the track for a second: You see this silhouette doing something OTHER than spinning counterclockwise? Does it appear like it is spinning clockwise to you? From my viewpoint it has naturally rotated counterclockwise from the very first second I saw it.

Is this another optical schism amongst the population just like the blue/black/gold/white dress, then?

There's actually a whole wiki page dedicated to this particular illusion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_Dancer

Most people (myself included) see her as spinning clockwise. Some, like you, see it counter-clockwise. However you perceive it, if you concentrate on it hard enough, you can usually make her reverse.

[Benford]

Most people (myself included) see her as spinning clockwise. Some, like you, see it counter-clockwise. However you perceive it, if you concentrate on it hard enough, you can usually make her reverse.

Hahaha, that's fucking awesome! I did make it go clockwise, but I have to stare at the feet for a short while and it "snaps" into the opposing direction.

[Sloppy Joe]

Most people (myself included) see her as spinning clockwise. Some, like you, see it counter-clockwise. However you perceive it, if you concentrate on it hard enough, you can usually make her reverse.

Hahaha, that's fucking awesome! I did make it go clockwise, but I have to stare at the feet for a short while and it "snaps" into the opposing direction.

I did this earlier and finally made her turn counter-clockwise.

When I got home, I opened it again and it was still counter-clockwise. After some time I finally made her reverse.

[4Dragons]

from reddit

Checking the color of the pixels is meaningless. That's the color of the PICTURE, not of the dress.
Color captured by the camera is what the dress reflected off the incident light. If the incident light isn't white, you get different colors.

Our eyes also saturate to change the white point of the images we see, that is, everything eventually becomes color-balanced. That's one of the reasons why f.lux works. You can also easily perceive this if you remain for some time in a room with a certain color or brightness, and then leave it. Everything will look tinted by the complementary color for a while, until your eyes adapt again. For instance, if you're inside a room with red light, you get a cyan tint afterwards.
This is exploited in the famous Spanish castle "illusion". Also, note that this is the same reason why leaving a dark room we get a glare, or entering a dark room you can't see anything for a bit. This is an entirely physical/chemical phenomenon: photoreceptor are saturated more under high exposure to specific types of light. So calling it an optical illusion may be wrong.
And finally, there's also more subtle post-processing done by the brain.
So there's a lot of things at play here way beyond the simple pixel color.

This is pretty cool

http://www.johnsadowski.com/big_spanish_castle.php

For anyone who has passed this post, go do it. It totally works

[jsearles22]

Agreed.


There are more important stories like the llamas that escaped

[anonamoose]

Dress in the picture is light blue and gold. What the colors in the dress are in natural lighting is kinda meaningless.

let me elaborate why you're dumb, since you don't appear to have taken the hint.

what it appears to be in natural lighting is not meaningless, IT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS DISCUSSION.

[big dick]

does anyone see her right nipple when she is spinning counter clockwise?

[HotlikeSauce]

Blues the new black

[gimmick]

Dress in the picture is light blue and gold. What the colors in the dress are in natural lighting is kinda meaningless.

let me elaborate why you're dumb, since you don't appear to have taken the hint.

what it appears to be in natural lighting is not meaningless, IT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS DISCUSSION.

Ummm no. It's about shortcuts that brain takes when processing information that alter perception. Our brain "corrects" kinda familiar shit into familiar shit all the time. Why this picture is interesting is because it creates 2 somewhat opposite illusions.

[SrslySirius]

does anyone see her right nipple when she is spinning counter clockwise?

What is this, your idea of Mormon porn?

[Benford]

does anyone see her right nipple when she is spinning counter clockwise?

Careful empirical research only revealed her left nipple when she is spinning clockwise.

[JUSTIFIEDhomicide]

I've always sucked at this sort of thing. I've never been able to see magic eyes, and I struggled really hard with this optical illusion when I first saw it.



I still have to concentrate a lot to make her start spinning counter clockwise.

Off the track for a second: You see this silhouette doing something OTHER than spinning counterclockwise? Does it appear like it is spinning clockwise to you? From my viewpoint it has naturally rotated counterclockwise from the very first second I saw it.

Is this another optical schism amongst the population just like the blue/black/gold/white dress, then?

I don't know how or why, but the first thirty seconds I looked at her she was spinning clockwise. Once it changed over I cannot get it back to clockwise. it is driving me insane!

[JUSTIFIEDhomicide]

Ok now I can spin this bitch around as I please. I just need to close my eyes for about five seconds and physically start rotating my neck whichever direction I want to see her, and than open my eyes once I get enough momentum. she seems to open her shoulder more, and a lower leg kick when going clockwise

[SrslySirius]

I don't know how or why, but the first thirty seconds I looked at her she was spinning clockwise. Once it changed over I cannot get it back to clockwise. it is driving me insane!

Blinking rapidly is the easiest way to make it change. It may help to keep your eyes shut most of the time and blink open in quick bursts. In between blinks, try to imagine her spinning the other way.

Using this method, I can now reverse her fairly easily. However, as soon as I look at her planted foot it resets. Try not to look at that foot when tricking your brain.

Actually, if you see her spinning counterclockwise by default, maybe looking at the foot is a shortcut to making it clockwise. I see clockwise by default, so I can't test this.

EDIT: An even easier way to make it counterclockwise is to block out the torso and watch the legs and shadows. I can now reverse immediately. Focusing on the planted foot still resets.

[Dan Druff]

I can see it spinning both ways, but only if I look away briefly or blink rapidly. At first glance it seems sometimes I see clockwise and sometimes counter clockwise.

Anyway, regarding the dress, I read somewhere that it's actually genetic whether you see it as white-and-gold or blue-and-black.

If true, that would explain why Benjamin sees it as white and gold, since both myself and his mom also see white and gold. I just saw my parents yesterday. I should have shown them. Maybe I'll e-mail it to them and see what they say.

In fact, it would be an interesting experiment for people here to ask their parents what they see, and report back if there's any differences from what they see.

There are many odd genetic things that you inherit that you don't think about. For example, I am not negatively affected by caffeine. I can ingest a ton of caffeine and then easily go to sleep. I found out later that my parents are the exact same way, as are my brother and sister.

[DRK Star]

[limitles]

Is this dress black and blue? Or white and gold?

Fuchsia and Turquoise

[vegas1369]

[4Dragons]

More freaky shit:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...-3667648765001

[Sidewinder]

http://colorvisiontesting.com/what%2...ople%20see.htm

color blind people deal with this every day... ridiculous this dumb ass dress was a huge "meme" on the Internet.