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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Steve H on September 17, 2024, 11:15:48 AM

Title: Remember "The Dress"?
Post by: Steve H on September 17, 2024, 11:15:48 AM: The one that looked blue and black to some people (including me), and white and gold to others, that is: Well, this Guardian article is about colour perception, and a test you can do. I see green more than 75% of the gen. pub., apparently.
The article:
https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2024/sep/16/blue-green-viral-test-color-perception
The test:
https://ismy.blue/
Title: Re: Remember "The Dress"?
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 17, 2024, 11:25:15 AM: I see blue more than 75% of the population.
Title: Re: Remember "The Dress"?
Post by: Gordon on September 17, 2024, 11:44:56 AM: My result was "Your boundary is at hue 174, greener than 55% of the population. For you, turquoise is blue."
Title: Re: Remember "The Dress"?
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 17, 2024, 11:45:34 AM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on September 17, 2024, 11:25:15 AM
I see blue more than 75% of the population.

ETA - looking at the graduations on either side of the line that it drew, I wonder if I saw them on a different screen with different light whether my answers would be different.
Title: Re: Remember "The Dress"?
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 17, 2024, 11:47:57 AM: Quote from: Gordon on September 17, 2024, 11:44:56 AM
My result was "Your boundary is at hue 174, greener than 55% of the population. For you, turquoise is blue."
Mine was "Your boundary is at hue 177, greener than 75% of the population. For you, turquoise is blue."

So a relatively small move in terms of hue has a big effect at this level
Title: Re: Remember "The Dress"?
Post by: splashscuba on September 17, 2024, 03:59:51 PM: Your boundary is at hue 195, bluer than 99% of the population. For you, turquoise is green.
Title: Re: Remember "The Dress"?
Post by: Roses on September 17, 2024, 04:10:30 PM: "Your boundary is at hue 190, bluer than 98% of the population. For you, turquoise is green."
Title: Re: Remember "The Dress"?
Post by: jeremyp on September 17, 2024, 04:25:16 PM: 177. 78% Green

Funny, when I first saw the final picture I thought "my boundary is exactly average right on the border between blue and green" and then I realised, that's the point. Different people see the border in different places. Duh!
Title: Re: Remember "The Dress"?
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 17, 2024, 04:39:19 PM: My result was: Your boundary is at hue 177, bluer than 78% of the population. For you, turquoise is green.
Title: Re: Remember "The Dress"?
Post by: Harrowby Hall on September 19, 2024, 02:46:41 PM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on September 17, 2024, 11:47:57 AM
Mine was "Your boundary is at hue 177, greener than 75% of the population. For you, turquoise is blue."

So a relatively small move in terms of hue has a big effect at this level

Mine was at the same point.

Earlier this year I had cataract surgery - with a gap of four weeks between my left and right eyes. Following the operation on my left eye (the first) I was able to consider the extent to which my aging lens had denatured the colour of the world around me. White (through my new lens) looked little like the experience I called white through my (so far unoperated) right eye.

I wonder, therefore, if some of the differences reported here are due to the effects of aging?
Title: Re: Remember "The Dress"?
Post by: Sebastian Toe on September 19, 2024, 08:22:19 PM: Your boundary is at hue 174, just like the population median. You're a true neutral.
Title: Re: Remember "The Dress"?
Post by: Maeght on September 19, 2024, 09:16:37 PM: Did it twice and got different results. Both times when the graph came up I felt the boundary was in the wrong place!