• mehdi_benadel@lemmy.balamb.fr
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    11 hours ago

    For your information : the dress is really blue and black, according to the store and manufacturer. The vast majority of people see it as white and gold, but I personally think most people are not used to decrypting overexposed pictures, hence their inability to perceive the right colors.

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      It’s subconscious it’s not something you can learn. If that were the case people would have no issue understanding how others weren’t ‘decrypting’ the photo.

      Also the majority see it as blue and black. 30% as white and gold.

      The Journal of Vision, a scientific journal about vision research, announced in March 2015 that a special issue about the dress would be published with the title A Dress Rehearsal for Vision Science.

      The first large-scale scientific study on the dress was published in Current Biology three months after the image went viral. The study, which involved 1,400 respondents, found that 57 per cent saw the dress as blue and black, 30 per cent saw it as white and gold, 11 per cent saw it as blue and brown, and two per cent reported it as “other”. Women and older people disproportionately saw the dress as white and gold. The researchers further found that, if the dress was shown in artificial yellow-coloured lighting, almost all respondents saw the dress as black and blue, while they saw it as white and gold if the simulated lighting had a blue bias.

      Another study in the Journal of Vision, by Pascal Wallisch, found that people who were early risers were more likely to think the dress was lit by natural light, perceiving it as white and gold, and that “night owls” saw the dress as blue and black.

      A study carried out by Schlaffke et al. reported that individuals who saw the dress as white and gold showed increased activity in the frontal and parietal regions of the brain. These areas are thought to be critical in higher cognition activities such as top-down modulation in visual perception

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      overexposure is not the issue but improper white balance, the camera was probably set for ~6800K but the lighting in the room was ~2700K

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      I’ve never seen it at white and gold. Even the brightened photo, while I understand what’s happening to make people see white and gold, is still blueish/purple and black to me. Does that mean I have a tumor?

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      not used to decrypting overexposed pictures

      I used to see it black and blue, now I see it white and gold.

      + I do photography and often have to work with overexposed pictures

      Edit: just looked at it again now its black and blue. Wtf brain

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      11 hours ago

      Wow you figured out how to break JPG encryption? Someone call Alan Turing, we got a prodigy over here

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        11 hours ago

        I’m French, we often use comparable actions verbs even if it’s not their real context. More commonly known as the metaphore stylistic device.

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          Is it common for the French to put together random semi-related, mostly nonsense words to try and sound like you know what you’re talking about?

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            Sounds like you need to open a dictionary ! It’s one of those big, stern books. Books are those stacks of paper bound together on one side.

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                I was gonna let you be stupid without saying anything, but you doubled down twice so now I will prove that you are wrong.

                The first definition of decrypt in the American Heritage Dictionary is “To Decipher” I’ll admit, not super helpful, so let’s look at the definition of decipher. “To read or interpret (ambiguous, obscure, or illegible matter)”

                So for someone to “decrypt” an overexposed picture, they would be, by dictionary definition, trying to interpret what the ambiguous picture was actually showing, since the lighting was making it unclear.

                You are in the wrong when saying they used the wrong word, you just don’t have as good a command over the English language as you thought

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        Decrypt is closely related to the word “interpret”, which is something I personally interpreted from a history of decrypting English text written by nonnative speakers on the internet. 👍

        The same words often have different meanings in different countries; something you should take into account in case you ever decide to take a German gift from a slim Dutchman.