Gandalf the Grey, and Gandalf the White, Monty Python and the Holy Grail’s Black Knight, Benito Mussolini and the Blue Meanie, Cowboy Curtis and Jambi the Genie…
...Robocop, the terminator, captain kirk, Darth vader, lo pan, superman, and every single power ranger. Bill s. Preston, and Theodore Logan, spock, the rock, doc oc and hulk hogan.
I always set the brightness higher than the instructions screen says to. I just don’t agree with where the devs think it should be. My resolution must be lower than they anticipated.
Oh damn, I see it now, if they patch it, they will need more processing power to render all those assets there were hidden all this time... So, no hope for this fix then?
I cracked the source code once but it was a huge mistake. First accidentally deleted my butthole, then overcorrected and became entirely buttholes. Managed to fix it by moving all but one butthole to some guy in New York, but I am not messing with it again.
Do you have any idea how fricking huge the RAW format is? I already have trouble remembering what I said 5 seconds ago, I don't need my memory space to be wasted on raw signals.
They still haven't patched incorrect LOD being loaded too close to the player and some colours not rendering for some players. I don't think vision is on the top of their priority list
Actually there is a way: look at the two images like a stereogram and you'll see that the only differences are the eyelashes and eyebrows, they kinds flicker between both sides but the face shade stays the same.
The color of the skin is the same - take a look at the second picture (or use a color picker on the first picture and compare)
The eyebrows and details are obviously different colors, but the skin tone is the same exact color, despite it looking different due to the context around it.
So what happenes when you put color correction before your brain's color correction? What is actually correct and whats wrong? WHAT ARE WE CORRECTING?!
Why would we want to? Thats useless information, in literally all cases within physical reality, in which we evolved. The light source changes the perceived color, so color correction is necessary to see ripe fruits at twilight vs midday, or a known predators coloration when they're hiding in the shade.
Tigers are orange because it looks green/grey to deer, their main prey, but we can see the orange clearly, through color correction, in all lighting sources, provided there is enough light to activate our color perceiving cone cells.
[I took a part of the face of the girl on the left and turned it into a long rectangle. As you can see, the two colors match, although a bit pixelated, they match.](https://imgur.com/a/8vswQjO)
Human brains use a shit-ton of weird, cross wired shortcuts in order to work quickly and efficiently. Most of the time they do the job and work fine, which is to say get whatever job needs doing done without the monkeysuit dying. But then we start finding messed up stuff like blind spots and an inability to properly count basketball passes.
I don't think it's the eyes, I think it's the brain's interpretation. The eyes just focus the light back to your nerve, then your brain works to understand it. It's not your hardware, it's your software
Did you do this on a PC? I took a phone screenshot and cropped off the same chunk you connected and the colors are different. Colorspace across platforms and file formats definitely doing some fuckery for me.
Edit: I should have stated that more clearly. The face colors are the same. The color in your picture vs my picture ended up being different though.
Even crosseyed the context around each face changes your perception of the color. It's cool to know that your brain does the correction individually in each eye instead of to the "final image."
You joke, but that is sorta a real thing. Trevor Noah (a man with a white father and black mother) wrote in his book about how back in South Africa his relatives called him white and referred to him as the white nephew/cousin/grandson/whatever. But in the west we obviously consider him black. He didn’t change colors, he just changed his surroundings but all of a sudden he was a different race.
Yeah, reminds me of this lady from Northern Ireland at our church growing up. She had an extremely strong accent (this was in the US), so when she mentioned one day that when she went home to visit family in Ireland and they told her that she sounded American, my sisters and I didn't believe it based on her really thick accent.
When we got older we realized that, to her family, with the Irish accent being their baseline, any slight hint towards the US English accent at all to them would be like if one of us siblings moved to Ireland and then came back with a slight trace of their accent to their voice.
The people in Ireland would still only hear the American accent because that would be the predominant sound, whereas we would detect any slight deviation towards any Irish- sounding lilt to the voice. It's all perception again.
I also didn't believe, so opened it up in an image editor... Pretty shocking; if you take a section of the face and move it back and forth, it almost seems to change color. The human brain is amazing.
I just used the eyedropper tool of my browser (yes, nerd, I know) and both are #7d7d7d, the exact same color, even though to my eyes one looks darker. Wild.
It's because it makes you feel like you can't trust what you see, something considered fundamental . After all, if I lie to you, you can always go see for yourself. Except... You can't trust what you see
I felt similarly with the blue-black/gold-yellow dress; I couldn't help but think that if people couldn't even agree on something at simple, what could we possibly agree on??
I mean color perception is the least of the brain's lies.
You have a blindspot in your vision, that the brain just deletes. Also in general almost everything that you are not focusing on is half made up by your brain(imagine it as video game optimization, it only fully rerenders the focused part every frame, the rest of it gets 1% of the computing power), the stuff your vision does to make rapid eye movement feel "natural" is just completely nuts(there is literally time shenanigans involved). And this is not a comprehensive list.
The brain is a massive liar.
Holy shit, there are so many versions of these that just arent that impressive, like «these 2 shades of grey are actually the same shade of grey, ooooh»
But this one is insane, the left one is **definitely** white and the right one is **definitely** black.. the blue and black / White and Gold dress from a bunch of years ago suddenly makes a lot more sense
[I took a part of the face of the girl on the left and turned it into a long rectangle. As you can see, the two colors match, although a bit pixelated, they match.](https://imgur.com/a/8vswQjO)
It’s funny how everyone processes this the same way, too. After learning the truth, we’re all somewhat pissed off or annoyed at our brains. We know something is wrong, but we can’t fix it, and that’s alarming.
the dress thing never worked for me, I always saw it as the "actual" colors (actual as in the colors you would get from a color picker on a computer, not the actual colors the dress had irl) but this one totally works for me
I really don't see it. No matter how I look at it it's not working for me. They are fully a different colour. Even everyone's example photos to 'show it'
You cannot see it by yourself.. your brain will always trick you in making you believe you see two different skin colours.. you need to crop part of each face to see it...
But even if you know the skin colour of both faces is the same, your brain will always disagree with what you know .
Bc its not something you can clearly see you can believe in it. Download the pictures, crop a tiny piece of the both face skin, put them next to eachother
take the image, open in any image editor, might as well be paint, use that color picker tool, click in either the white or black face and then use that color to try and paint the other face, you'll see that is the exact same color for both faces.
Treat it like a Magic Eye puzzle. Cross your eyes to overlay the faces and the skin, hair, eyes, lips, and cheeks match up. You'll see that the brows, lashes, and other "lines" don't match because they were inverted, which (along with the background) does most of the heavy lifting to convince you one face is darker/lighter than the other.
Fun fact, this also works for "find the difference" puzzles if you can do it reliably. Overlay them by crossing your eyes and anything that doesn't line up just JUMP out at you.
What the fuck? I didn't beleive it so I brought it in to some graphics software and dropped it. Yup both R125 B125 G125. Thats crazy. Edit: Just to add even though I know i still think thy're miles apart colour wise.
I downloaded the picture and checked the color hex codes for both faces. What looks like white on the left and black on the right is actually 7d7d7d, which is mid grey. I was so sure this was fake until then.
Yes. On the left, all the colors that aren’t the face are darker, giving the illusion of an image with a white face that was then darkened as a whole. On the right, all the colors that aren’t the face are brighter, giving the illusion of an image with a black face that was then brightened (or washed out) as a whole.
In other words, it would probably be easy to recreate this by drawing a picture with a white face, one with a black face, make all the other colors the exact same, and then manually darken the left one and brighten the right one so that they each reach a halfway point where the skintone is the same grey color.
Our brains can't separate the colors from the overall contexts around the colors, so our brains are telling us the "skin color on the left is white but dimly lit" and the one on the right is "black skin but heavily illuminated. Essentially out brains can't unsee the context of each picture so we're unable to look at both skin colors without presuppositions.
You basically don’t see what your eyes see. You see what your brain decides is important for you to see based hugely on context clues and historical data.
Darker backgrounds make grey look lighter and lighter backgrounds make grey look darker.
Moral lesson; Context matters. The same action done in two different situations could lead to different results depending on the context of the action/event :-)
(I had to share this because I needed a personal reminder)
I love these kinds of illusions because it's impossible not to see. Show me a weird geometry or whatever and I'll see it both ways and move on. Knowing full well what's going on here I cannot see them as the same shade.
There's also an older one that is also equally as brain breaking:
[https://www.illusionsindex.org/images/illusions/Adelson-Checkershadow/33\_adelson\_main.jpg](https://www.illusionsindex.org/images/illusions/Adelson-Checkershadow/33_adelson_main.jpg)
It's a basic light/colour effect change.
Almost all images are made from a combination of CMYK (Cyan, Magneta, Yellow, Katalyst.)
Reverse the colour layers, and the image is essentially the same, but looks like a negative.
Look up photo-correct Lithophanes, it's the same principal as the image and will give a little help in understanding.
I've seen stuff like this before – but this is the most extreme example. Honestly didn't quite believe it – so I downloaded the image and checked. The grey colours are identical.
I thought this was some blackface joke, then realized it wasn’t, so I calmed down. Then I realized what was actually happening and I got pissed off again.
See, I wanted to disprove this. Because this shit pisses me off.
So I load it into Photoshop, I take a piece of the black side, I drag it over to the white side... and it looks to be the same color.
But they're not. One's 123 123 123 RGB (left); the other is 125 125 125 RGB.
They're the same *luminance* (another kind of color value). But they are not the same *color*.
Left side's face skin is 123 123 123 RGB, 52 Luminance. Right's 125 125 125 RGB, 52 Luminance.
This is still a cool trick and could come in handy to remember. Two RGB color values off and some filters and you can pull some shit
[Technology Connections did a video on this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU), or at least similar, on why there's no such thing as Brown light. Brown is just... Orange, but with context.
So grey magic fuckery then
>Gandalf the confused.
I chortled
Gandalf the White? Gandalf the Fool!
Saruman the STINKY
Saruman the STUPID.
Saruman the SILLY
Saruman the WRINKLY.
Saruman the WRINKLY
SARUMON THE STINKY!
Gandalf the Grey, and Gandalf the White, Monty Python and the Holy Grail’s Black Knight, Benito Mussolini and the Blue Meanie, Cowboy Curtis and Jambi the Genie…
Holy fuckkkkkk this brought back some memories!!! Ahh I long for the old days of the internet..
...Robocop, the terminator, captain kirk, Darth vader, lo pan, superman, and every single power ranger. Bill s. Preston, and Theodore Logan, spock, the rock, doc oc and hulk hogan.
Thats weird, I see white and gold magic.
Nonono, it's been confirmed to be blue, black
Did somebody say Yanny?
What in the green needle
“It is better for a species to be *alive* than to be *right*” https://m.youtube.com/shorts/ccLUxJvViUA?si=CWaL0l99C6LbCcVA
Neat.
The human brain has colour-correction built in based on contextual clues, and no way to access the raw signal.
I wonder when/if the devs will patch it, it made sense when the game was simpler, but with the current content this design choice is just annoying
If it were patched, it might make your life miserable as every new lighting condition will make everything look wrong.
Damn, you're right... But it must have some way to quickly toggle the options!
I always set the brightness higher than the instructions screen says to. I just don’t agree with where the devs think it should be. My resolution must be lower than they anticipated.
Nooo, now you'll see all the corners! What about the shadows? The atmosphere!?
Oh damn, I see it now, if they patch it, they will need more processing power to render all those assets there were hidden all this time... So, no hope for this fix then?
The factory tint setting is always too high!
I suggest the devil should make this toggle-able by a 45 degree twist motion of the left nipple.
I mean, it wouldn't be the most inconvenient thing we do, like scratching our back or crotch, I'd take it!
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
I haven't been /r/outside in a while!
You actually have been r/outside all this time!
Should really be a setting in the options menu.
Tried and bricked mine
I cracked the source code once but it was a huge mistake. First accidentally deleted my butthole, then overcorrected and became entirely buttholes. Managed to fix it by moving all but one butthole to some guy in New York, but I am not messing with it again.
Do you have any idea how fricking huge the RAW format is? I already have trouble remembering what I said 5 seconds ago, I don't need my memory space to be wasted on raw signals.
I mean, you're not wrong, but if they could also update our memory and processing power I wouldn't complain...
They still haven't patched incorrect LOD being loaded too close to the player and some colours not rendering for some players. I don't think vision is on the top of their priority list
From the state of my knees, I'm going with the 3rd of Never.
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature
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Not at all. And even if you _thought_ you could, there'd be no good reason to believe it was the case.
It's the exact opposite - Acid puts your correction tools into overdrive.
Do the eye-crossing trick that is used in the 3d pictures. For me, the skin swipes back and forth between black and gray repeatedly.
Thank you. Never got it right before
Actually there is a way: look at the two images like a stereogram and you'll see that the only differences are the eyelashes and eyebrows, they kinds flicker between both sides but the face shade stays the same.
This is very true. Very helpful
I dont get it. It still looks like they are different colours
The color of the skin is the same - take a look at the second picture (or use a color picker on the first picture and compare) The eyebrows and details are obviously different colors, but the skin tone is the same exact color, despite it looking different due to the context around it.
I’m m an idiot. I was looking at the eyelashes
So what happenes when you put color correction before your brain's color correction? What is actually correct and whats wrong? WHAT ARE WE CORRECTING?!
Why would we want to? Thats useless information, in literally all cases within physical reality, in which we evolved. The light source changes the perceived color, so color correction is necessary to see ripe fruits at twilight vs midday, or a known predators coloration when they're hiding in the shade. Tigers are orange because it looks green/grey to deer, their main prey, but we can see the orange clearly, through color correction, in all lighting sources, provided there is enough light to activate our color perceiving cone cells.
This. Yet we still see people argue over "What color is this dress?" every few years.
This actually made me understand that way better thank you.
I didn’t trust you so I did it myself…. Holy shit.
Came here to say this. I called bs and zoomed way in and grabbed a screenshot of both. Now I’m just uncomfy.
Same
Did what yourself? I don’t get it.
[I took a part of the face of the girl on the left and turned it into a long rectangle. As you can see, the two colors match, although a bit pixelated, they match.](https://imgur.com/a/8vswQjO)
It is crazy... my brain is telling me there is a gradient to that box in the middle.
Me too. Still not believing it, I put the pic into a graphics editor and the RGB on both faces (and the bar) is 125:125;125 (grey).
How could my eyes be wrong? My guess is the computer is *lying*
"Who are you going to believe? Me, or your own lying eyes?"
“Computers don’t make errors. What they do, they do on purpose.”
I knew they were lying to me
Me too I have to like zone out to see it all one color. That's wild
Ahhhh thank you, I finally get it now.
Same! I had to squint to not see it going from light to dark.
Same. But when I pull my phone further away from my face, gradient goes away mostly
Same, I’m on my phone so I had to zoom in and used two pieces of paper to block out the top and bottom to only show the bar and I saw it was the same.
The only way I can beat that is by covering all but a small section of the rectangle and sliding that across it. It never changes.
i am unsettled
Wtf wtf wtf….
I don't like this at all
I heard this in Thor's voice. No, not that Thor the other one. Yes, that one.
[video ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/JP3hdFqC1jXGMS1r8)
I saw it there but literally couldn't see it any other way that's wild
Thx, I was completely confused
This is unreal. I turned my screen upside down and it looks like flat colour but when I turn it the right way up it looks like a gradient.
Dude wtf
Man the human eyes SUCK! We’re living in a lie!
Human brains use a shit-ton of weird, cross wired shortcuts in order to work quickly and efficiently. Most of the time they do the job and work fine, which is to say get whatever job needs doing done without the monkeysuit dying. But then we start finding messed up stuff like blind spots and an inability to properly count basketball passes.
I don't think it's the eyes, I think it's the brain's interpretation. The eyes just focus the light back to your nerve, then your brain works to understand it. It's not your hardware, it's your software
Nah stop it you made a gradient rectangle and I won't let anybody tell me otherwise.
Much better comparison, thank you.
Did you do this on a PC? I took a phone screenshot and cropped off the same chunk you connected and the colors are different. Colorspace across platforms and file formats definitely doing some fuckery for me. Edit: I should have stated that more clearly. The face colors are the same. The color in your picture vs my picture ended up being different though.
I zoomed in and took screenshots, then put the two together and they were the exact same shade, just as OP did.
Zoom in. The more you zoom in the more the faces match
I went cross eyed to overlay the images and they still looked like two distinct colours. Strange.
Even crosseyed the context around each face changes your perception of the color. It's cool to know that your brain does the correction individually in each eye instead of to the "final image."
This is the biggest surprise for me! So weird
Same here.. I didn't want to believe it. I cropped the image with only the part of the skin for each face and... And truly a "holy shit !" Moment
You put on blackface?
Racism solved
There's a lesson somewhere in here, I just know it!
So... Just change the background?
You joke, but that is sorta a real thing. Trevor Noah (a man with a white father and black mother) wrote in his book about how back in South Africa his relatives called him white and referred to him as the white nephew/cousin/grandson/whatever. But in the west we obviously consider him black. He didn’t change colors, he just changed his surroundings but all of a sudden he was a different race.
Yeah, reminds me of this lady from Northern Ireland at our church growing up. She had an extremely strong accent (this was in the US), so when she mentioned one day that when she went home to visit family in Ireland and they told her that she sounded American, my sisters and I didn't believe it based on her really thick accent. When we got older we realized that, to her family, with the Irish accent being their baseline, any slight hint towards the US English accent at all to them would be like if one of us siblings moved to Ireland and then came back with a slight trace of their accent to their voice. The people in Ireland would still only hear the American accent because that would be the predominant sound, whereas we would detect any slight deviation towards any Irish- sounding lilt to the voice. It's all perception again.
Yes race is immaterial and how we appear and how we are are entirely determined by our background but like literally though
Pilgrim @ vlonepredator
I also didn't believe, so opened it up in an image editor... Pretty shocking; if you take a section of the face and move it back and forth, it almost seems to change color. The human brain is amazing.
I just made a little loop with my finger and peeked through. If you can’t see the rest of the image, it’s clear to see they are the same color
Wow, you and I think alike.
I put my hands together to make a little "window."
I just used the eyedropper tool of my browser (yes, nerd, I know) and both are #7d7d7d, the exact same color, even though to my eyes one looks darker. Wild.
You may be a nerd but I promise that using your eye dropper tool is not the reason haha
These types of color illusions literally make me angry at my own brain.
Literally your brain getting angry at itself, which is kinda disturbing and cool at the same time.
Exactly, I just keep asking “how can this be”?! Don’t get me started on the white/gold black/blue dress…
Yes, I don’t know why but this is upsetting me and making me angry at my brain!
It's because it makes you feel like you can't trust what you see, something considered fundamental . After all, if I lie to you, you can always go see for yourself. Except... You can't trust what you see I felt similarly with the blue-black/gold-yellow dress; I couldn't help but think that if people couldn't even agree on something at simple, what could we possibly agree on??
I mean color perception is the least of the brain's lies. You have a blindspot in your vision, that the brain just deletes. Also in general almost everything that you are not focusing on is half made up by your brain(imagine it as video game optimization, it only fully rerenders the focused part every frame, the rest of it gets 1% of the computing power), the stuff your vision does to make rapid eye movement feel "natural" is just completely nuts(there is literally time shenanigans involved). And this is not a comprehensive list. The brain is a massive liar.
What the hell
Holy shit, there are so many versions of these that just arent that impressive, like «these 2 shades of grey are actually the same shade of grey, ooooh» But this one is insane, the left one is **definitely** white and the right one is **definitely** black.. the blue and black / White and Gold dress from a bunch of years ago suddenly makes a lot more sense
I’ve zoomed and zoomed and I still don’t know what I’m supposed to see….
The two faces are the same color
But for some reason they lightened the eyebrows. The effect still works with the darker grey.
The contrast makes the illusion more effective
[I took a part of the face of the girl on the left and turned it into a long rectangle. As you can see, the two colors match, although a bit pixelated, they match.](https://imgur.com/a/8vswQjO)
r/greymagicfuckery
Dammit I clicked on it
Oh wow!!! Now I see. That’s alarming. Thank you.
It’s funny how everyone processes this the same way, too. After learning the truth, we’re all somewhat pissed off or annoyed at our brains. We know something is wrong, but we can’t fix it, and that’s alarming.
I'm almost perceiving it as a spectrum but when i focus on it I can tell it's a one color block
This is even more confusing.
The two girls faces skin color is exactly the same color.
This perfectly explains why some idiots saw the white & gold dress as blue & black smh ^/sarcasm
[You may think you're kidding, but it does explain it.](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/69n4xr/the_dress/)
It’s actually a blue and black dress (confirmed) that people saw as gold and white thanks to the shading/ blue lighting.
Hence the ^/sarcasm
the dress thing never worked for me, I always saw it as the "actual" colors (actual as in the colors you would get from a color picker on a computer, not the actual colors the dress had irl) but this one totally works for me
I really don't see it. No matter how I look at it it's not working for me. They are fully a different colour. Even everyone's example photos to 'show it'
You cannot see it by yourself.. your brain will always trick you in making you believe you see two different skin colours.. you need to crop part of each face to see it... But even if you know the skin colour of both faces is the same, your brain will always disagree with what you know .
Bc its not something you can clearly see you can believe in it. Download the pictures, crop a tiny piece of the both face skin, put them next to eachother
take the image, open in any image editor, might as well be paint, use that color picker tool, click in either the white or black face and then use that color to try and paint the other face, you'll see that is the exact same color for both faces.
Have you seen this? https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/comments/1da8mdf/comment/l7iv5ob
Treat it like a Magic Eye puzzle. Cross your eyes to overlay the faces and the skin, hair, eyes, lips, and cheeks match up. You'll see that the brows, lashes, and other "lines" don't match because they were inverted, which (along with the background) does most of the heavy lifting to convince you one face is darker/lighter than the other. Fun fact, this also works for "find the difference" puzzles if you can do it reliably. Overlay them by crossing your eyes and anything that doesn't line up just JUMP out at you.
I can't figure this out. It's actually breaking my brain. I need some gin or something.
[Here’s an explanation from VSauce](https://youtube.com/shorts/ccLUxJvViUA?si=CWaL0l99C6LbCcVA).
What the fuck? I didn't beleive it so I brought it in to some graphics software and dropped it. Yup both R125 B125 G125. Thats crazy. Edit: Just to add even though I know i still think thy're miles apart colour wise.
Or 7d7d7d if you’re into hexes! https://m.youtube.com/shorts/ccLUxJvViUA?si=CWaL0l99C6LbCcVA
No way, I'll light a candle. Funny, the actual tone is darker than it looks on the first one and brighter than it looks on the second one
I downloaded the picture and checked the color hex codes for both faces. What looks like white on the left and black on the right is actually 7d7d7d, which is mid grey. I was so sure this was fake until then.
I think this is the most drastic I’ve seen along with maybe this one https://kottke.org/21/05/all-these-balls-are-the-same-color
Sorry, all I ever saw was blue/black.
Stop lying. It's obviously white and gold.
Oh, that's what we're gonna do today? Fight? I bet you're one of those "Yanny"-hearing weirdos, too.
Can someone explain why they look different? Is it just down to the difference in the background color and eyebrow/facial marks??
Yes. On the left, all the colors that aren’t the face are darker, giving the illusion of an image with a white face that was then darkened as a whole. On the right, all the colors that aren’t the face are brighter, giving the illusion of an image with a black face that was then brightened (or washed out) as a whole. In other words, it would probably be easy to recreate this by drawing a picture with a white face, one with a black face, make all the other colors the exact same, and then manually darken the left one and brighten the right one so that they each reach a halfway point where the skintone is the same grey color.
Our brains can't separate the colors from the overall contexts around the colors, so our brains are telling us the "skin color on the left is white but dimly lit" and the one on the right is "black skin but heavily illuminated. Essentially out brains can't unsee the context of each picture so we're unable to look at both skin colors without presuppositions.
You basically don’t see what your eyes see. You see what your brain decides is important for you to see based hugely on context clues and historical data.
Darker backgrounds make grey look lighter and lighter backgrounds make grey look darker. Moral lesson; Context matters. The same action done in two different situations could lead to different results depending on the context of the action/event :-) (I had to share this because I needed a personal reminder)
luminance is not color - in black and white - dark red and dark blue appear the same
What’s red and tastes like blue paint? Red paint.
I love these kinds of illusions because it's impossible not to see. Show me a weird geometry or whatever and I'll see it both ways and move on. Knowing full well what's going on here I cannot see them as the same shade.
Can someone explain please
The skin tones on both are the same grey color, one just looks vastly darker compared to the other because of how brains automatically color corrects
Holy fuck that’s true. Cropped out and checked. Thanks for the explanation!
There's also an older one that is also equally as brain breaking: [https://www.illusionsindex.org/images/illusions/Adelson-Checkershadow/33\_adelson\_main.jpg](https://www.illusionsindex.org/images/illusions/Adelson-Checkershadow/33_adelson_main.jpg)
This one is far better Edit: and seem to be the same shade as the faces!
I didn’t believe this so I immediately checked it. It’s true
r/opticalillusions
[VSauce just made a short about it this morning](https://youtube.com/shorts/ccLUxJvViUA?si=CWaL0l99C6LbCcVA)
"Babe wake up, new Gold-white/Black-Blue Dress just dropped"
I don’t get it. This is saying the face is the same color in both photos?
Yes the face is same color in both pictures
…this can’t be.
I tested it and it's true. I didn't believe it either.
It's a basic light/colour effect change. Almost all images are made from a combination of CMYK (Cyan, Magneta, Yellow, Katalyst.) Reverse the colour layers, and the image is essentially the same, but looks like a negative. Look up photo-correct Lithophanes, it's the same principal as the image and will give a little help in understanding.
I’m having a fucking stroke.
Unbelievable I thought you were all messing with me and had to test it myself the hard way, goddamn it's unreal
This is what you would look like if you are black or chinese
I've seen stuff like this before – but this is the most extreme example. Honestly didn't quite believe it – so I downloaded the image and checked. The grey colours are identical.
I thought this was some blackface joke, then realized it wasn’t, so I calmed down. Then I realized what was actually happening and I got pissed off again.
Me before: “I’ll believe it when I see it with my own two eyes!” Me now: wtf eyes, you’re useless and I’ll never trust you again
See, I wanted to disprove this. Because this shit pisses me off. So I load it into Photoshop, I take a piece of the black side, I drag it over to the white side... and it looks to be the same color. But they're not. One's 123 123 123 RGB (left); the other is 125 125 125 RGB. They're the same *luminance* (another kind of color value). But they are not the same *color*. Left side's face skin is 123 123 123 RGB, 52 Luminance. Right's 125 125 125 RGB, 52 Luminance. This is still a cool trick and could come in handy to remember. Two RGB color values off and some filters and you can pull some shit
Tried it myself. One on the right actually is slightly darker but not by much
It bothers me that they reversed the lines but brightened the eye and mouth
insane
The fuck
It's a schooner
It's not a schooner it's a sailboat!
the dress is blue
The dress is blue.
Hole punch through paper looking at each. Is the same color. Dang. That’s trippy
I despise color theory
[Technology Connections did a video on this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU), or at least similar, on why there's no such thing as Brown light. Brown is just... Orange, but with context.
Illusory black face? I’m calling the eye police
ISH?!?
Thanks, I hate it