BBC source article - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-31656935
This optical illusion dress thing that has gone viral is fascinating – at lunchtime today I looked at the image on the left and saw black and blue – absolutely no hesitation at all. And this is actually the colour of the dress as reported.
I couldn’t understand how anyone would see gold and white…
...but at nearly 5pm, I happened to look at the article again and was most surprised to see the image as white and gold. Also interesting is that the image on the right has appeared blue and black the whole time.
That was kind of freaky - was my mind playing tricks on me? Nothing I have read so far in coverage terms suggests that people can see both colourways.
As the natural light in the office has decreased, the image has effectively changed colour and it must be the rods and cones in my eyeballs competing for supremacy.
Still bothered, I put the image on to two different screens at the same time and blow me down, the images looked different on each screen. I can see both colourways at the same time – that must be down to monitor brightness and angles of light.
There appears to me to be a transition that goes blue/black to blue/gold to white/gold.
Weird but cool!
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This optical illusion dress thing that has gone viral is fascinating – at lunchtime today I looked at the image on the left and saw black and blue – absolutely no hesitation at all. And this is actually the colour of the dress as reported.
I couldn’t understand how anyone would see gold and white…
...but at nearly 5pm, I happened to look at the article again and was most surprised to see the image as white and gold. Also interesting is that the image on the right has appeared blue and black the whole time.
That was kind of freaky - was my mind playing tricks on me? Nothing I have read so far in coverage terms suggests that people can see both colourways.
As the natural light in the office has decreased, the image has effectively changed colour and it must be the rods and cones in my eyeballs competing for supremacy.
Still bothered, I put the image on to two different screens at the same time and blow me down, the images looked different on each screen. I can see both colourways at the same time – that must be down to monitor brightness and angles of light.
There appears to me to be a transition that goes blue/black to blue/gold to white/gold.
Weird but cool!
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