re: What color is this dress?

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What about our computer at work analyzing the lace as gold? Our computer photo analyzer thing says gold in the picture. So I now feel the picture is gold. Not the dress though

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Take a look at a black object aroound (mouse, remote, etc.) Now position it under a light. If someone asked you what color it was, you would say black. Now take a picture of it under the light using a flash. Let your computer analyze it. It will say gray/brown, or whatever depending on the pixel and how the light affects that pixel.

Just because the computer says brown/gray, and the light from the flash makes it come off that way to you, your brain allows you to ignore the flash and overhead lights so you know it's still a black object.