Article It’s been 10 years since “The Dress”

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It’s been 10 years since “The Dress”
https://slate.com/technology/2025/02/the...ology.html

EXCERPTS: I’m talking, of course, about “the dress,” which went viral on Feb. 26, 2015. To recap: A cellphone picture of a wedding guest’s dress, uploaded to the internet, sharply divided people into those who saw it as white and gold and those who saw it in black and blue—even if they were viewing it together, on the very same computer or phone screen. The notorious dress, under natural lighting conditions, is unambiguously black and blue, for (almost) everyone who saw it in person, or in other photographs.

[...] A decade after the dress, we’ve learned a lot about how people could see a simple image so differently from one another. ... One thing that you might notice about all of these examples: Your brain never tells you “We really can’t tell what the color is because we don’t have all necessary information available.” There’s no flag that goes up saying “Just FYI, your assumptions did much of the heavy lifting here.” The brain prioritizes decisive perception (giving you the ability to take decisive action) over being paralyzed by uncertainty and doubt. Your brain helps you make a snap judgement, a snap judgement that might be wrong. This streak carries through all of cognition... (MORE - details)

Video about it 10 years ago ... https://youtu.be/AskAQwOBvhc

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/AskAQwOBvhc

[Yazata]

black and blue!

[confused2]

black and blue!

Ha ha. I knew someone would try it. White and gold, of course.
Edit..
OMG it's turned into black and blue ..

[stryder]

It's totally dependent on a number of things such as the device you use and the settings for it.

Is your monitor/graphics output using the Full RGB range, a limited RGB range or another range such as YCbCr?
Do you have settings altered for Brightness, Contrast, Hue and/or Color Temperature?

Those settings effect what you actually see, sometimes it can make things darker or even alter the coloour slightly (especially Hue and Color Temperature)

What size is the screen in DPI? and what size are you shown the image at?
These can change what you see based upon what algorithms are used for Scaling an image (considering OS differences) and whether the image is mipmapped (wikipedia.org) to create the colouration.

With that being said the answer is both sets of colours depending on screen settings.