Question about the silly dress colors - tiny internal poll
I was out last night at a performance of our local art school and sat with a visual artist and painter of renown.
As we were making conversation during intermission the black/blue - white/gold dress came up and she said she at all times saw it as black and blue and her husband standing beside us said that so did he.
Now - to me - no matter when I saw it - in whatever lighting - presented by whoever and in what way I ALWAYS saw it as nothing but white and gold. I could not even pretend to myself I saw something else, and let it all go because I thought the whole thing was just another silly thing to spend energy on in order to not pay attention to what really matters.
Well - I was gobsmacked that they said they felt equally correct in their vision.
Feeling frivolous, let me ask you what you saw, I will do nothing with the info except be very interested in the numbers.
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I think I missed the original whatever-it-was that started this, because by the time I saw it there were pictures of white/gold, light blue/gold, and blue/black 
Was that right?
Funny how such unexpected things end up getting everyone's attention 
about the puzzlement of the attention it got.
I would have never given it a second thought had I not had the shock of my friends feeling the exact opposite way I did.
I thought it would be fun to kick it around my other visually oriented friends.
I'll let it run out now and turn in to start the week fresh. White and gold works for me. Black and Blue has always been painful
I have 3
that it's the same dress, light blue/gold vs deep blue/black, and add to that, the lighting's everything. The mother of the bride is more likely to have worn white and gold than blue and black, imo.
What remains to be seen is whether the color shift was deliberately or accidentally done.
Note how washed out the background is in any of the "gold white" images. If you crank up the exposure color values can change.
The bride's mum on your left, in "the dress":
I played with my iPhone and got some similar effects, but I don't have that dress to conduct a real test, and it could be that the phone used by Caitlin McNeill has different functions. It looks like an iPhone 6.
Objects both reflect and absorb color. For instance, "What color is snow?"
I'm sitting at a PC desktop and after seeing so much kerfuffle over the color of that dress, out of frustration, I pulled my chair away from the desk and tried viewing the photo from several different positions.
When down on my knees, looking straight up at my monitor from a very extreme angle, I can finally see the dress as blue and black, just like so many others. I don't know what that says about my eyeball cones or 'puter pixels or even that dress, at all. What I do know is that crawling around on the floor just to view what possibly half the world population sees normally put me into one idiotic position.
My man and I see colors differently all the time. I think he must be color-blind, he says that I am. When I have Evening Grosbeaks at my feeders, he thinks that they are dull-yellow, I see them as more greenish. Doesn't matter to me one bit, whenever I get a flock of those birds, it's a delight to have them here, whatever color they are.
I still think that the dress photo whoopla is silly, even after my dumb experiment. And I think it's a weird dress, whatever color it actually is. (tho, now that I've seen it as black and blue, I might actually wear such a thing. The white and gold version reminds me of a set of bathroom curtains I had many years ago, ha!)
