These robes were crated by Roman, a very skilled elven tailor, as a commission for a filthy rich merchant of Athkatla. Since his only daughter was soon to be wed to the descendant of a noble local family, the merchant asked that the dress would draw all eyes to itself, stealing the gaze from her rather unappealing looks. Roman imbued the dress with light versions of the spells Blur, Mirror Images and Prestidigitation. The spells allow the dress to shine through a complex and elegant manipulation of light and illusion. The end result is that the dress is perceived by the onlooker as to change colors according to which colors the person has in mind at the time. This effectively grants a deflection bonus of +2 to AC (+6 vs missiles), but also a penalty of -10 to Hide checks. Additionally, any enemy that tries and attack the wearer has to first save on Will (DC 20) or be dazed for 1d2 rounds (mesmerized by the light play of the dress). Unfortunately for the merchant, when the day of the wedding came, the robes proved to be the center of a quite heated argument between the bride's and the groom's families. The day ended with 1 dead, 3 broken arms, 5 bleeding noses, 8 broken ribs and 2 eyes pulled out of their socket (fortunately, the eyes were not both of the same person).
Ok guys. If you enjoy this kind of thing then I highly recommend watching a show called "Brain Games". It should be on the National Geographic channel. Check your local listings as they say...
Its also on the American version of Netflix.
I watched a few on hulu plus but I don't know if they're still there
I see a dress in very poor lighting. I can see it as either white and gold or blue and black depending on whether I imagine the lights above to be blue, or mixed blue and white, or a combination of white, blue, and yellow. The photo is also taken with a bad camera.
I think @meagloth's picture of the same dress in good lighting with higher resolution photography, further down the thread, clarifies the issue.
Interestingly, I saw this dress gestalt used in a political cartoon in this morning's newspaper. The caption was "Blue and black or gold and yellow? I say it's whatever Obama says it is."
Ok guys. If you enjoy this kind of thing then I highly recommend watching a show called "Brain Games". It should be on the National Geographic channel. Check your local listings as they say...
Colour is a funny thing, especially pigment vs light. Light has colour, pigments reflect or absorb it. A pigment's apparent colour is entirely dependent on the lighting, as a given pigment will reflect or absorb based on its own characteristics. The dress is not always shown in full spectrum light, which will affect its apparent colour. Things get more interestingnif you remember humans only see a certain set of light wavelengths, yet others also exist... birds of prey can often see more ultra violet shades than a human can, making hunting rodents much easier... they urinate while walking around, and that urine is extremely visible in the ultraviolet spectrum. Very handy trait I would say. Infrared is at the other end.
Gloss and opalesence really messes with stuff though. Opals are trippy. This is also why black light is so cool, as it changes the apparent colour of pigments.
Anyways, why exactly is this even being discussed? Didn't everyone learn the science of colour in school?? Kids these days...
Also I see the 'real' colour which makes a nice change since I'm slightly colour blind and am used to not being able to see stuff which other people can.
To me the 'gold/black' looks gold and the 'white/blue' looks pale blue. So if there had been an option for pale blue and gold then I'd have picked that. As it was the closest was the gold/white option.
I see gold and blue. I've heard about this on the regional radio station first, talk of a dress with a discussion of how different people see different colours due to the amount of cones on their retina.
We can't tell without opening the box with the dress and the radioactive isotope. Once we do that, the wave probability function will collapse, and the dress will be either one or the other color combination. The downside is that there is a 50% probability of killing a cat by doing this.
We can't tell without opening the box with the dress and the radioactive isotope. Once we do that, the wave probability function will collapse, and the dress will be either one or the other color combination. The downside is that there is a 50% probability of killing a cat by doing this.
I don't believe quantum theory is used in dressmaking.
I see blue and gold. I wonder whether the ones who see this saw the picture first on the forum (I did) and if it isn't a quirk of how this forum displays the image.
Scientific answer! People who see blue and black think the dress is being bleached by sunlight People who see white and gold think it's in the shade. It's all very psychological and complicated
Back in the 2000s, the court originally ruled against the FCC, making them unable to regulate the Internet as the FCC defined it, leaving it up to the ISPs, who basically do whatever the corporations tell them. But on the same day as this dress thingy, the ruling was rendered moot by the FCC vote to properly classify broadband as a faster version of a dial-up connection to the outside world, which they ARE allowed to regulate. Pretty important. And heartening!
still, if it is, that's good for you and I'm glad for American internet-users (what do you call people in the United States anyway? 'Staters'? The name American would apply for Canadians in the north up to Argentinians in the south).
(what do you call people in the United States anyway? 'Staters'? The name American would apply for Canadians in the north up to Argentinians in the south).
Personally I use the term "USAians", though they rarely appreciate it. Seems the most common thing is "Americans", wrong though it is. I always facepalm at "America is the best country" and similar statements because, you know, it's no more a country than Asia, Europe or Africa for instance.
@Son_of_Imoen Apologies, I got so wrapped up in recounting the history that I didn't even see that part of the question. I believe it's U.S. only, yes. Although I know many EU countries have already reached similar conclusions. Perhaps others as well? One can only hope. @Silverstar I too feel that the term Americans should apply to North, Central, and South America, as America is a continent, not a country. Not sure what to call those of us living in the USA, but personally, I'm a New Yorker, and identify as such whenever I travel abroad. Anyhoo, I think I've hijacked this thread enough already
Personally I use the term "USAians", though they rarely appreciate it. Seems the most common thing is "Americans", wrong though it is. I always facepalm at "America is the best country" and similar statements because, you know, it's no more a country than Asia, Europe or Africa for instance.
I just started a topic on the GOG forum about it (I'm DubConqueror there), just minutes before your post, I encountered the term USAian first over there. I like, I think I will use it too.
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These robes were crated by Roman, a very skilled elven tailor, as a commission for a filthy rich merchant of Athkatla. Since his only daughter was soon to be wed to the descendant of a noble local family, the merchant asked that the dress would draw all eyes to itself, stealing the gaze from her rather unappealing looks. Roman imbued the dress with light versions of the spells Blur, Mirror Images and Prestidigitation. The spells allow the dress to shine through a complex and elegant manipulation of light and illusion. The end result is that the dress is perceived by the onlooker as to change colors according to which colors the person has in mind at the time. This effectively grants a deflection bonus of +2 to AC (+6 vs missiles), but also a penalty of -10 to Hide checks. Additionally, any enemy that tries and attack the wearer has to first save on Will (DC 20) or be dazed for 1d2 rounds (mesmerized by the light play of the dress).
Unfortunately for the merchant, when the day of the wedding came, the robes proved to be the center of a quite heated argument between the bride's and the groom's families. The day ended with 1 dead, 3 broken arms, 5 bleeding noses, 8 broken ribs and 2 eyes pulled out of their socket (fortunately, the eyes were not both of the same person).
I think @meagloth's picture of the same dress in good lighting with higher resolution photography, further down the thread, clarifies the issue.
Interestingly, I saw this dress gestalt used in a political cartoon in this morning's newspaper. The caption was "Blue and black or gold and yellow? I say it's whatever Obama says it is."
Apparently it's already a meme.
It's pink and green.
Gloss and opalesence really messes with stuff though. Opals are trippy. This is also why black light is so cool, as it changes the apparent colour of pigments.
Anyways, why exactly is this even being discussed? Didn't everyone learn the science of colour in school?? Kids these days...
Also I see the 'real' colour which makes a nice change since I'm slightly colour blind and am used to not being able to see stuff which other people can.
Next up, urban gear.
People who see blue and black think the dress is being bleached by sunlight
People who see white and gold think it's in the shade.
It's all very psychological and complicated
/partypooper
Anyway, the dress is blue :P
still, if it is, that's good for you and I'm glad for American internet-users (what do you call people in the United States anyway? 'Staters'? The name American would apply for Canadians in the north up to Argentinians in the south).
@Silverstar I too feel that the term Americans should apply to North, Central, and South America, as America is a continent, not a country. Not sure what to call those of us living in the USA, but personally, I'm a New Yorker, and identify as such whenever I travel abroad.
Anyhoo, I think I've hijacked this thread enough already
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/what_are_inhabitants_of_the_united_states_called
let's continue the discussion there and not get ourselves distracted from the color of the dress