seeing that as blue

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Jonathan Townsend
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seeing that as blue

Postby Jonathan Townsend » February 27th, 2015, 11:04 pm

Any thoughts on a lighting based method where blue and black are seen as white and gold?

http://mashable.com/2015/02/26/dress-wh ... lue-black/
Mundus vult decipi -per Caleb Carr's story Killing Time

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Re: seeing that as blue

Postby erdnasephile » February 28th, 2015, 6:30 pm

The WSJ had a slightly more detailed, scientific explanation of the dress paradox.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dress-a ... whats_news

This article also includes a picture of the blue/black dress in different lighting.

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Re: seeing that as blue

Postby Tom Moore » February 28th, 2015, 8:04 pm

Go google "samoiloff effect" for a not dissimilar principle and some real world applications

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Re: seeing that as blue

Postby erdnasephile » February 28th, 2015, 8:24 pm

Tom Moore wrote:Go google "samoiloff effect" for a not dissimilar principle and some real world applications

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Here's a NY Times article (circa 1921) where Mr. Samoiloff discusses his principle:

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-fr ... 838A639EDE


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