In the image that confused social media users today, a navy-blue dress and a yellow-white dress actually appeared to be the “same” color. We explained the reasons for the “coincidence” in this image, which does not actually contain any optical illusion.
Not a day goes by without a photo, picture or video trending on social media. To explain the issue for those who have not come across it; In the video, a part of the navy-blue dress was cropped with Photoshop and placed on top of the yellow-white dress, showing that it was actually the same color.
The video rightly confused people who are not familiar with drawing techniques. Some popular accounts even shared the video as “our brain is playing tricks on us” he shared with the statement. However, The thing is actually very simple. And it would be an exaggeration to say that there is an optical illusion.
The viral video is as follows:
First of all; Let us remind you that this is not a photograph but a drawing created by an artist. Artists; They play with colors to distinguish day and night, light and darkness. To give an example; In the drawing, night is identified with blue light. Therefore normally An otherwise white object is colored a light blue tone at night. Red objects are brought closer to purple, and blue objects are brought closer to dark blue.
Explanation of everything: Cedric with blue hair
In the comparative image above, there are two scenes from the cartoon called Cedric. Cedric, who is normally blonde, has a browner skin tone in night scenes. has blue hair We see that it is. While watching the cartoon, probably none of us “Why is his hair blue?We didn’t question it because we all knew it was about moonlight.
The same colors were used to highlight light and shadow
Now let’s combine this information with the dress drawing. Yes, the dress on the left is navy-blue, and the dress on the right is yellow-white. However, when we look at the light and dark areas on the wall, we see the area marked with the yellow arrow where the dark blue-blue dress is located. yellow light that she had fallen, and that the rectangular area marked with a red arrow containing the yellow-white dress was located. the shadow fell We see.
The illustrator used lighter tones and colors close to yellow in this area to emphasize the yellow light falling area of the dark blue-blue dress. To emphasize the shadow area of the yellow and white dress, darker and bluer colors were used, as in the Cedric example above. As a result, as we see in the video An image where the same colors are used in two dresses emerged.
If the colors are the same, why do we think they are different?
Actually, the answer to this question depends on how we interpret what we call “reality”. As you can see in the example above, white appears gray in low light. Conversely, a black t-shirt looks gray under high light. However that you are conscious of high or low light You know that black color and white color are not actually the same.
This is equally true in the viral video. For two you know that the yellow-white dress is actually yellow-white even though the part in the shadow is blue, and that the dark blue-blue dress is actually dark blue-blue even though the part in the light is close to yellow. Even though half the dress is the same color, you know they are different.