"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
03/01/2015 at 15:57 • Filed to: None
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
03/01/2015 at 15:57 • Filed to: None | 3
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The WaPo has an !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! about that ugly dress and the debate that raged around the globe and kept us distracted for much more important things. The article provides numerous examples of optical illusions that make us see things differently than they really are, but this one was my favorite.
In this image, the surface of each half of the object are an identical color. You can test this by holding your finger over the middle of the image where the to halves meet. Mind. Blown.
TheHondaBro
> ttyymmnn
03/01/2015 at 16:01 |
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No matter how much I try, object B always seems a little bit lighter.
Milky
> ttyymmnn
03/01/2015 at 16:03 |
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Thats not really mind blowing though. Its a dark gray in light VS. a light gray in shadow visually.
/BeingAnAssOnTheInternet
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ttyymmnn
> TheHondaBro
03/01/2015 at 16:03 |
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I enlarged the image. Try this one at the original size. It's likely that the reason for the discrepancy is the light vs. dark background.
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TheHondaBro
> ttyymmnn
03/01/2015 at 16:05 |
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Eh, same thing.
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ttyymmnn
> Milky
03/01/2015 at 16:06 |
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"Mind Blown" is perhaps an overstatement. I know why it works, I'm just amazed that it works at all. This is another famous illusion, where both squares A and B are an identical color.
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ttyymmnn
> TheHondaBro
03/01/2015 at 16:07 |
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:D
Axial
> ttyymmnn
03/01/2015 at 16:25 |
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The dress was not a case of this effect, though. With this, you pull it up in some image editing software and the two halves have the same color value. With the dress, you would get two completely different colors values.
The dress is a case of a blown-out image capture with peoples' typically shoddy TN-panel monitors.
JasonStern911
> ttyymmnn
03/01/2015 at 16:30 |
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in other news, magenta is not a color.
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Milky
> ttyymmnn
03/01/2015 at 16:37 |
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Yea the way we perceive things in weird and awesome at the same time. But I think I'm just butthurt because I've taken classes (visual communication) that literally teach you only things like this.
So IMO it all makes sense.
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ttyymmnn
> Axial
03/01/2015 at 16:46 |
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Right, this is just an example of another optical illusion that I thought was cool.
Justino6969
> TheHondaBro
03/01/2015 at 21:44 |
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davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> ttyymmnn
03/02/2015 at 08:47 |
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xkcd's example was perfect: http://xkcd.com/1492/
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ttyymmnn
> davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
03/02/2015 at 08:50 |
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You know, I looked at that the other day, and the dress looks the same color in both halves of his drawing.
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davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> ttyymmnn
03/02/2015 at 08:52 |
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Really? Wow. Just goes to show that we all see/process things very differently.
They appear nothing alike to me.
45bullets
> TheHondaBro
03/02/2015 at 09:09 |
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your thumb may not be big enough.