Clay Bennett for February 28, 2015

Did I miss something in the news? What is the big deal about a dress?

A silly twitter trend no doubt, but ‘enlightening’.

The science behind that dress.

Although I’m not an American and not partisan to their politics, I found Bennett’s cartoon pretty funny.

Very funny. Even Republicans should chuckle at this a bit and see the humor.

For the record, I have seen the dress both ways. It seems to depend on which device I’m viewing it on, but I haven’t cared enough to try to figure it out.

A great summary of right wing reacting instead of using open minds, much less open eyes.And yes like many questions in life the answer is not as obvious as many think.

Nos Nevets, you have to notice the Republican logo on the wall. Whatever Obama says …

The color you see depends upon the lighting level and your own eyes. Apparently both colors exist but some people’s eyes are more sensitive to one over the other depending upon the lighting level. Some people see it as white and gold others as blue and black. I think you have to see the dress in person to know what you will perceive it to be.

I saw it as blue and gold. Not blue and black, not white and gold. Blue and gold. Anyone else? (But different pictures seem to show different colors. Any given picture I see consistently.)

We had a small group look at exactly the same picture most saw gold and white a few saw blue and black. All knew they were right.

Dude, it’s a well known and studied phenomenon. The brain is very good at identifying colors within the correct context, but can easily be tricked by removing the context. The brain interprets the blue color as looking as white would look in the context of dim light or shadow. It’s an optical illusion, not propaganda.

That IS the absolutely PROPER conservative answer! Congratulations! (And Lord – let us pray that Obama never advises wiping one’s butt after sh*ting!)

That IS the absolutely PROPER conservative answer! Congratulations! (And Lord – let us pray that Obama never advises wiping one’s butt after sh*ting!)

It’s viewpoint of an optical delusion; just like American politics today.

That’s funny. To me, anyway.

Cheers ahab ; -)

@ lonecat I saw, or is it: perceived off-white and gold. shrug

Painters, of course, know all about this phenomenon, and if you look closely at paintings of objects partly in shadow you will see how painters have learned to represent the color of both the shaded and unshaded part.

“but but buuush picked it 1st…’”Doesn’t matter who picked it first. Obama picked it now, so Republicans will pick the other one.

“Bill Clinton says he did not make a white stain on that blue dress..”And Bush says he didn’t make up the weapons of mass destruction. They both lied.

Thanks for the chuckle, Mr. Bennett.

All of the above?

My wife has a form of Synesthesia (one of the most common forms) where all letters and numerals have their own individual colours. I was hoping that my daughter would inherit this ….trait (‘anomaly’?), but alas, not. My father-in-law, who is an abstract painter and one who I thought would have it too, does not have Synesthesia.

“Now he can have dreams in uv that other humans can only imagine.”Lost me on that one. Dreams are not imagination by definition? Do believe it’s time for another beer.~~

We have one right here! I-Play-One is an ophthamologist if I recall correctly.

Just to jump in at a slight tangent before you guys carry on in the consciousness debate……the synesthesia my wife experiences surely shows it is perception in the way it interprets those wavelengths?

Aha, thanks for clarification!