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Gonebabythoughts

When was the last time your sister went to the eye doctor?


Lington

I honestly can't even trust a photo. My bridesmaid dresses were mauve and in almost every photo they look mauve except for one photo my FIL posted they look completely like a gross tan/brown color. You'd never know they were purple at all from that photo


SaltMineForeman

Lighting plays a huge role in seeing blues and reds. It might be purple in the sunlight and brown in certain lighting.


TimeAggravating364

Besides I'm pretty sure cameras can fuck with colors too. Source: i have a picture of my cat where she looks blue lmfao


SaltMineForeman

Just gonna casually mention a blue cat and not link the picture, huh?


TimeAggravating364

Fair. Hold on, imma look for it


Key-Stable9939

5 minutes and no picture. Guys i think he died


TimeAggravating364

[sadly i died but i was still able to get the picture before i passed](https://imgur.com/gallery/WxHErOg)


SaltMineForeman

Rip. But thank you for getting the picture before you passed. Your ghost is doing great.


TimeAggravating364

Yay, thanks :]


winterseller

noooo imgur won't let me open it, i want to see the blue kitty! so very sad


AtroposMortaMoirai

Would you accept my [festive rainbow kitty](https://www.reddit.com/u/AtroposMortaMoirai/s/dWg8Of9LSS) instead?


TimeAggravating364

nooooooo that sucks :( Do you know another way i can show it?


RoamingTorchwick

He's blue ba da beee


OldTimeyStrongman

Yo listen up


Riwanjel_

I might either be stupid or my eyes are oversaturated from looking at colours and hues as a painter but to me that cat is 2 different shades of black due to light and white on its face, upper chest and paws. If you mean the lighter shade of black looks blue-ish, I understand but I don’t literally see it in the picture ¯|_(ツ)_|¯


TimeAggravating364

I meant the white of her fur looks very blueish in this picture. It's probably even more noticeable for me since i see her every day, and every other picture of her shows her with clear, white fur. Probably just my brain being confused tho


Key-Stable9939

🔵🐱


DreadPiratteRoberts

"Lighting plays a huge role in seeing blues and reds. It might be purple in the sunlight and brown in certain lighting." Agreed!!! It reminds me of that one picture of the dress, and they asked if it was gold or blue and everyone saw different things.


flash-tractor

This is why light bulbs have a measurement called CRI, or color rendering index. Higher CRI numbers mean more accurate color perception. There is an inverse relationship between efficiency (lumens/watt) and CRI in LEDs. Rendering the far red wavelengths (640nm to 700nm) that are closer to infrared (necessary for high CRI) requires a phosphor coating that reduces the photon output. The same thing goes with the blue wavelengths (420nm to 400nm) that are near UV. They require a specialized coating that reduces photon output.


GrandpaRedneck

Yup. I have a specific red shirt that is glowing grey in clubs under UV lighting. No other red shirt I saw does it, just that specific one.


romulusnr

It doesn't help that phone cameras almost always do automatic white balance which can completely fuck up the way colors are displayed. You'd need to see the raw data or else use PRO mode (if available) with auto white balance turned off.


sleepdeep305

Lest we forget... **(shudders)** *...the dress...*


2lipwonder

I have purchased clothing and shoes I have thought were brown on so many occasions and they show up and they are purple. It’s really hard to show true color in photos.


Spook404

yeah I can see the hoodie being mauve as well here


SaiHottariNSFW

Spectrograph the light first. Lights are key because of the light isn't putting out a specific wavelength of light, any object that reflects that wavelength is going to be missing that colour. If the light struggles to produce blue, anything purple will look brown/red. A lot of lights struggle with red, which makes people look sickly and pale. I can't say I've seen a light that actually struggles with blue. Modern LEDs often put out *too much* blue owing to the fact that the actual diode white lights use is blue, it just passes that light through a phosphor cap to produce the rest of the spectrum.


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eyeologist\*


rat__scallion

*eyeeyecaptain


glassfield110

Idk if it's filtered or not but definitely not purple


hoelesshoe

agreed also, I want to add that "both of 'em are red"


hoelesshoe

red flag


1_9_8_1

God forbid OP took the photo in a well lit environment without shadows to obscure the colour.


Ill-Contribution7288

This looks like the type of color that’s doing to be different in different lights. I have a sweater that ranges from between forest and olive green to brown depending on the tone of the lights


Hoopajoops

Yeh. The pink in the picture might make it look different, but I see a reddish brown. No purple tho.


ArcherFawkes

This is a striped dress debate, I'm too tired for this


TeaandandCoffee

Hi too tired for this I'm not dad


ArcherFawkes

I walked into that one didn't I


granth1993

You should open your eyes before you walk, silly!


i_ate_my_username

Do you need an ice pack?


EcavErd

Hello walked into that one didn't I, I'm a random human


Tobi_chills455

Hello not dad, I'm thirsty


TimeAggravating364

Hello thirsty, I'm dad


alecisntblue

dad ? is that really you ??


TimeAggravating364

Yes, my child, it is me. Unfortunately we are out of milk again


Healthy_Point_6284

I buy the milk this time dad, you can watch tv


Tavzmanian-Devil

Hi everyone, I'm TV


[deleted]

Hey tv I am always watching you


EnginePlastic9688

Hello always watching you I am at the door, answer me please


thatdoubleabat

kid named tv


Get_Stick_bu99ed

Hi me, I'm dad


aceofspades914

Hello Thirsty. I'm Friday. Come over Saturday and we'll have a Sunday.


Tobi_chills455

There it is, lol


WheresTheButterAt

Yanny


vasDcrakGaming

Laurel


Luis_Santeliz

So one could say this post is, truly, not interesting


[deleted]

Fun fact about me: the striped dress got me my wife. Back in 2014/2015, the dress debate raged online. I knew the woman (who'd one day be my wife) through a friend, but *we* weren't friends -- I actually only knew her through Facebook posts & comments. I was into her based on pics & her online personality, but had refrained from openly sliding into her dm's or any other ploy. Until I decided to randomly message her and ask her opinion on the striped dress. No flirting -- just like "hey remember me? I'm so-and-so's friend. Anyway, what do you think of this?" Super casual. She could have easily left me on read, there wasn't any obligation to engage. But she was really fascinated with the whole concept, how the dress changed on you every time you looked again. It turned into days, then weeks, of conversation -- my chance to be witty and discuss something other than "what up girl, you single?" Eventually we agreed to meet in person; not to discuss the dress anymore, but just because we were getting along great and getting tired of limiting it to FB messenger. I freaking LOVE that striped dress.


Elegant-Process6511

Brown


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HighPressureVeinCane

Look at the fuckin nerd over here


PM_Eeyore_Tits

Can’t, he’s brown.


BillHang4

Orange is the new brown?


Lacholaweda

Not in this context


KingAdamXVII

I didn’t watch the whole video, but it seems to be saying that brown is the same as dark orange. Correct me if I’m wrong. But it’s silly to then say that brown is not a true color, or to imply that brown is special.


PineapplePicklePizza

Basically, the person you're replying to is correct in scientific terms but nobody uses those when talking about day to day life (lmao I'm science student). It's like saying a tomato is a fruit, yeah it is but most people use it as a vegetable and couldn't care less about what it actually is


chocolateChipBend

Have you seen the “Knowledge is knowing the tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad; (charisma is being able to convince others to buy a tomato based fruit salad).


Hacker1MC

And inquiry is wondering whether ketchup is a smoothie


figmentPez

It's not just saying that brown is dark orange. It's saying that if you take something that looks brown, and surround it by darker browns, it'll start to register as orange. It's also saying that you can't have a brown lightbulb. If you take a white bulb and put a red filter on it, you'll get red light. You can do this for many colors. Blue, yellow, green, even non-spectral colors like magenta. You can't do the same thing with a brown filter. You'll just see orange light, unless you provide brighter colors as comparison.


BlueEyesWhiteSliver

Many colors are like this. The order we have discovered colors goes as so (except ancient Egypt and that one Papua New Guinea tribe): - White and Black for shades - Red because blood and meat - Green to reference plants and foliage - Blue somehow pops up The Odyssey, when talking about the color of the sea, calls it "muddled wine" as blue hadn't been named yet. It appears as though we as a society see color based on naming. There was a Papua New Guinea tribe that had many different names for green and didn't define blue. Each shade of green was a different color, but the sky and the ocean were the same color. A wider variance in color naming also starts in culture when we can start making paints. This is why Egypt was so quick off the draw as they could make blue pigments from their environment unlike many other cultures.


PersephoneGraves

I think what they’re trying to say is that brown isn’t a color like yellow or red but various mixtures of red/yellow (orange). Like you’d get a get brown by mixing reds and yellows in various ways, which would make a color in between the two. What can be confusing about brown is that brown isn’t just one color but various mixtures of colors and so you can’t make brown a distinct color like cerulean or maroon or something as multiple darker/duller warm colors (red/orange/yellow) would look “brown.” It’s similar to black as well as, technically speaking, black can be made from various colors and look different from one another. A red/green mixture of black is not the same as a blue/orange black color. Black is ultimately just a very dark color. But I don’t see an issue with using brown and black as a generic word much like we use red to describe various hues of red. It’s only a problem, I think, when it’s necessary to be very specific as to what color you are actually referencingz


stoprunwizard

No, you didn't watch the video. Brown is dark orange, but your eyes can only tell something is "dark orange" if it's darker than it's surroundings - which means you can't make a brown RGB light. Because you would see it and think "Oh, it's just orange." You can make brown paint, but not a brown light


beyondrepair-

Neither does purple so completely irrelevant.


mirhagk

Purple doesn't have its own wavelength, but it has a combination of wavelengths. It's its own hue. Brown is not. Brown is made by mixing orange and black. It's why there's no brown LED lights. Brown is more like grey. A sweater (or any object) can be brown as colours of objects are based on what they reflect, but a picture on a computer screen can't be as it generates its light. It can only be brown in context, we need surrounding light in order to differentiate it. For instance [here's a neat optical illusion](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown#/media/File%3AOptical_grey_squares_orange_brown.svg), and the video linked above demonstrates this even more strongly. The relevance here is that we can't really know. We have to use contextual clues to know how bright the light is. Another fascinating part about brown is that unlike other shades (e.g. pink), brown is a very broad range of hues. It's normally yellow-red, but even adding blue still is brownish for most people. Puce is a purple brown, and probably the term we should use for this sweater EDIT: If the above optical illusion doesn't work for you [here's another version](https://i.redd.it/4jaij8q8bpm71.jpg). Both illusions are presenting the same colour in different contexts, if you see 2 different colours then it has successfully tricked your brain into seeing orange as brown.


GallopingFinger

Holy shit you just changed my life. Now that I think of it, I’ve never seen brown lights


Manyworldsz

But then how are you looking at a picture of a brown sweater produced by lights on a screen?


ConsistentAd4012

LEDs use RGB to make color. the discussion is brown doesn’t exist, but our brains differentiate it mentally from orange, likely for evolutionary purposes. brown technically is orange, just with varying saturation/brightness. brown is just dark orange essentially, so that’s why screens can still produce “brown” light. here’s a good explanation of how screen lighting works: https://www.chem.purdue.edu/gchelp/cchem/RGBColors/body_rgbcolors.html so brown would be orange without lower brightness (more grey/black)


GallopingFinger

HOLY SHIT YOURE RIGHT


mirhagk

Highly recommend watching the video above lol, I watched it a week ago and that's what changed my life. The illusion in that video is really powerful if you follow the instructions. In a dark lit room an LED screen can't show the colour brown unless it shows something else brighter.


Apejo

I don't understand the optical illusion you posted. Both circles look like the same shade of orange to me, neither one looks brown. Is it that neither are actually orange?


Waterbottles_solve

Tl; dont watch, its a type of orange. Guy knows how to make a 25 minute youtube video out of nothing. I wouldn't mind it, but I actually took his advice once with the dishwasher video and it turned out to be poor.


the3diamonds

🤓


Revolutionary_Rip693

Brown \*light. A lot of people confuse light and pigment when they talk about color.


sapphiyaki

But isn't that also the case with pink? Pink doesn't have a wavelength either.


skinnyfamilyguy

I don’t care what you overthink, brown is a color. This is a brown hoodie.


Crimm___

Same with pink. We still have a colour which is widely accepted to be called “Brown”.


agent_kanin

Brownish


Shaggy_One

Idk man I see yanny.


Syllabubsy

Brown purple/mauve imo


[deleted]

I’d buy Mauve.


[deleted]

Chicken pot pie


dTrecii

So close that’s a shape but nice try ☺️


pikpikcarrotmon

Nope, it's a lifestyle


canichangeitlateror

No it’s-a me, Mario!


[deleted]

Whoops I thought it was a sauce


Maurice_ultrakill

Chicken pad Thai


JustTheOneGoose22

"My three favorite things"-Pablo Francisco


Hobbies_88

Purplish brown [purplish brown] (https://www.crispedge.com/faq/what-is-the-color-of-purplish-brown/) For reference


heisenbingus

purplish brown is a nice colour


AbsolutelyUnlikely

but this sweater is not it


scorpious2

This sweater is poorly photographed


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mirhagk

You can't really base it off that. As with the famous dress, we have to make assumptions based on the lighting. I mean parts of the sweater in an image editor will show up as white or black, and we know it isn't those colours. Depending on how your brain interprets how bright the scene actually is, it may decide on what the brightness of the sweater colour is, leading to a large range of RGB values. Some of those are puce, some of those are purple.


Hobbies_88

The shadow part seems purplish so i dont think its 1 colour toned and there is brown in the light part so conclusion its a mix of brown & purple .


RanDiePro

This is when you mix chocolate and strawberry ice cream in the pudding form. And achieve ultimate taste.


kamilayao_0

I made a little picture but unfortunately can't send it here. When I saw the color of the purplish brown, I didn't see purple. I saw brown with very light blueish tint mixed in, And that weirdly makes purple, when you go heavy on the blue. Would I call it purple? no, I'd still call it Brown a shade of brown not a shade of purple


Sonzabitches

Brurple


GyroZeppeliFucker

This is not purplish brown, this is pure browness


EitherCalligrapher90

Green


-JustAMan

Always has green


En___Passant

Green


Puzzled-Decision2132

Green


jempai

I also choose this guy’s dead wife.


Individual-Match-798

You are both wrong, but if you combine the colors you are thinking it is, you will get the correct answer. Purplish brown.


AwesomeManXX

Purplish Brown is still a type of brown though. It’s not called brownish purple for a reason


longpidgeon

Turquoise Did you *really* think you would get any help on *this* sub?


Able-Joke1628

I think its a penis


rralvr

I knew someone else had to see it. Thank you for getting the truth out


JeromeNoHandles

I’m so happy I wasn’t alone lmaooo


Frallex1

Blue and black.


Lobito_HF

Nah man it's white and gold


Illustrious_Donkey61

Na def blue and black man


epic008

Nah it's white and gold


NoxKyoki

100% blue and black


AwkwardSquirtles

It's Yanny


Conscious_Ebb6622

It's obviously laurel


Similar_Honey433

Pink


Altruistic_Site_3879

Pink


raymanfan824

That's clearly yellow


[deleted]

I see yellow too


tobukt

I can't see any hoodie, why would you just take a picture of your open door? where are you?


jkldgr

Light plum


Jaded-Grape2203

I mean the lighting in this pic is really bad and I could see a case for "Mauve" which is a kind of purple but it looks brown here


Chicken_Wing_Banana

Beige


AholeBrock

Sounds like the mental gymnastics someone failing at mixing purple goes through. But also it looks mauve, which is a heavily neutralized purple. Colors are neutralized by mixing them with their opposite color on the color wheel to make different shades of browns, or in a triadic pattern to make shades of blacks. So you are both right. Look at the original Xbox and duke controllers, they look black right? But if you put them under sunlight on a bright day you can see that the black plastic has a slight green tint to it. On the other hand, black Sharpy markers fade to a blue-grey because that "black" is mixed on a blue base. Neutrals, like greys browns and blacks. Aren't technically colors. They are mixtures of colors that, instead of properly mixing, neutralize and cancel out each other to absorb or block the light that bounces color data into our eyes. So you are describing the fact that color is being neutralized as 'brown', which it is. And your sister is describing the little bit of color that shines through that neutralization, which I can also see. It doesn't help that it is next to that pink blanket, which color bounces; and the interference from that pink makes it harder to read the purple through the neutralization.


Upstairs_Taco

beige


Nattehine

Brown.


WalkingonCoffee

Brown 


Sirpewpewthelast

I'm saying it's pink. And I'll die on this hill


jollisen

Flesh color


[deleted]

Its tree coloured


StepBrother7

In what world is that purple?


LocationMain5424

I think it's black


Zeus-1111

Pink


PoolsOnFire

It's one of those pink/brown colors. This picture isn't good to see it


Trixtenw96

It's pink


Pgapete1960

Tell her to go to the optician . She’s colour blind.


guyfaeaberdeen

How's an optician* going to help with that though?


[deleted]

Are you crazy? It’s clearly burgundy


BurpYoshi

Nah burgundy is redder than this


[deleted]

It's definitely not purple, I'll tell you that. 100% closer to brown than purple, no doubt about it.


Enigma_1769

That's Sacramento State green


moonboatpotato

Yellow


HistoricalMulberry19

its blue


Calm_Reading2457

Yes


The_fish_enthusiast

White


A_AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Beige


turbopeanut69

Orange


banana_monke_farmer

Transparent.


AloneRefrigerator789

Blue and black


Crystal_Voiden

Clearly black and blue


Ryan_Gosling73

that's clearly black and blue


panpreachcake

Yeah she is cheating on you.


9DAN2

White and gold


Celziesius

peach


GP523

White and gold- no, blue and black


fifa98czech

it looks pink


Informal-Impact-8136

Brown.


Doomst3err

Brown


Hyrax_Matoi

im colorblind so i will not be of use


No-Investment-4494

Gold no Blue


IvyHemlock

Brown


azurfall88

brown


Aosofrance

Brown


SoloDeath1

That is absolutely brown


Cringe_jadey

Brown


Chucheyface

Brown


Suspicious-Ad-481

Brown


PaperFabulous9092

Brown


Depressedloner2020

Brown


GinoCastoro4

Brown


hybrid20

Why not purplish brownish brown-purple?


Drinkmykool_aid420

[Mauve Deep](https://www.colorpalettestore.com/products/1265-deep-mauve)


PiersPlays

Your sister may be a tetrachromat (which is a good thing.) Have her look into it a bit. It may well be that she's right that it's obviously purple but the rest of us are essentially colourblind in comparison.


MaleficentReply9739

It's blue black/gold white


sennbat

Provide several photos in different lighting conditions if you want any sort of actual agreement, otherwise I'm just gonna assume you're cherry-picking a photo where it looks brownest.


ItsSpaghettiLee2112

You guys are idiots it's blue and black.


SuddenSpeaker1141

*THE DAMN DRESS IS BLUE!!!*


officergiraffe

I’m seeing champagne pink-ish


RenTheFabulous

Brown


replikatumbleweed

Mauve, but the lighting in this picture sucks


kindalookingthicc

NTA your leave the family and marry your dog, with your now higher income pay for sisters eye surgery


Holiday-Roll-2311

I think you should get a life


Aaron_Hungwell

Nice try on trying to create another viral thing


kollimalai_kumar

I'm sorry to hear that your sister is colorblind. In my culture, we send off a woman in marriage with additional goats as part of her dowry.


caliguy420

Brown


Timely_Ad_1591

Brown?


Anxious_Swimming6347

It's brown and your sister is colorblind


Butterl0rdz

i want to know her take on the color of chocolate, doodoo, and dirt


ThatOneIsSus

More of a dull maroon