Published on 12, July, 2020
What colour is the dress?(1) blue and black(2) white and gold(3) other
The dress is a photograph that became a viral internet sensation on 26 February 2015, when viewers disagreed over whether the dress pictured was colored blue and black, or white and gold. The phenomenon revealed differences in human colour perception. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress
I saw it as the same image flipped or mirrored so assumed I'd got it "wrong" or was missing the point...
I can see how they might look bulging but that wasn't what I saw first.
Ditto although I think it's standard brown?
Love this:
I thought the way we perceive the hemispheres was a result of where the darker shading was.
I thought they might be the same but I am wrong more often than not with these things!
You are correct!
The most common explanation is, because our visual system assumes the light comes from above, a totally different perception is obtained if the image is viewed upside down.
Nobody seems to have taken an interest in my images.
So...
In the top image the hemispheres on the diagonals look as if they bulging out of the page.
In the bottom image the hemispheres on the diagonals look as if they are holes in the page.
In reality both images are identical. The bottom image is just the top image upside down.
Thank you
Exactly! Not everyone realises though.
Here's a great website with 135 visual illusions https://michaelbach.de/ot/
They are the same length! (Müller-Lyer illusion)
These have to be my all time favourites by MC Escher!
Here is another classic.
Can you describe what you see and the difference between the two images.
This comes from a book which describes in more detail the illusion and the reasons behind it.
Leave it up, it is a great illusion
yes! I can't look at it straight!
I'm glad that it's going. I wonder if I should take the picture down as I don't want to give lots of people a headache? Mind you, I don't think that I will be able to delete it now that people have responded to it :-(
It's going, it's my own fault I know looking at things like that trigger it, but I still do it!
Sorry! I hope you don't still have a headache?
Ah, I see! They were moving so much it gave me a headache trying to focus thought it was my bad eyesight!