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The dress is a bistable picture, similar to the Spinning Dancer, which you can consciously reverse the direction of spin with some practice.
To see the dress as blue-black, I first look at the black dress in the bottom-left corner, then shift gaze to the main dress when colour is established.
To see the dress as white-gold, I first look at the sunny regions on the right, then move gaze across, when the main dress goes to white-gold.
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It may help to cover or mask the opposite region, when focusing on one side.
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For detail, 10 years ago I saw this as white-gold and did not change from that perception. Did not know what all the fuss was about this dress. Today, I saw it as white-gold initially, but 10 minutes later, after two friends saw it as blue-black, I also saw it as blue-black and could not shake it.
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I still only see white/gold even though the actual dress was black/blue
This is flicking between white and gold and black and blue each time I scroll past it.
Ten years? I remember clearly that I argued about this on my friends mailing list
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ARE YOU FR? WHO REMEMBERES THIS? IS THIS A SARCASTIC POST??? SAY SIKE OP
The blue of the dress is pretty obvious, the black details are a different, golden hue due to ambient light. I "know" it's black, but it looks dark gold
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I stuck my foot in my mouth about this dress. It was about a year later, and I didn't realize it had been proven to be black and blue, and I said something snarky when someone I liked said it was black and blue. I was so sure it was gold and white, I made an ass of myself.
It's strange. I'm wearing sunglasses right now and it looks white and gold but when I take them off it looks blue and black.
I can sort of change it. Probably just my TN monitor though.
This was always the real trick. If you have a laptop you can probably tilt your screen to make it change between the two. What angle you use your screen at affects your perception.
I see it obviously blue black, but I have some specific accessibility related colour filters on my screen that might influence this.
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