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Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
It's because of the lighting and the lovely camera. It's really washed-out, so the black part is a dark golden brown and the blue is pale, but it's also backlit, so everything is really dim. In that contrast, some people see the blue and automatically infer that the darker color is black, and some people see the gold and infer that the lighter color is white. If you just crop out the front of the dress itself and look at that, it's dim, washed-out blue and golden brown, which the RGB values confirm.

I've heard people saying that it's because people's rods and cones literally sense the colors differently, which is bullshit. If nothing else, there's a hell of a lot more colors out there that people shouldn't agree on if that's the case.

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