Which seemed white and gold to some, and blue and black to others, as a new controversy began on social networks. Briton Nicole Coulthard posted in Facebook a photograph of Vans sneakers and said that she and her friend saw the color of shoes differently: one sneaker was gray with turquoise laces, and the other was pink with white.
In the editorial office of The Village, ten people voted for the color gray, and only three saw pink. For some, the color of their shoes changed by the end of the day. In fact, the sneakers turned out to be pink.
To stop the debate, we talked to an ophthalmologist, a psychologist and an artist and figured out why people see colors differently and what influences this.
Svetlana Snytko
General Director of the Center for Therapeutic Ophthalmology, ophthalmologist
The reason for different perceptions of colors is impaired color vision. These violations can be established using Rabkin tables . Color perception depends on visual pigment; this indicator is most often congenital, but can also be acquired - after injury or neuritis.
Rabkin's polychromatic tables are used to identify color blindness. According to the degree of color perception, they are distinguished: trichromantics (normal), protoanopes (people with impaired perception in the red spectrum) and deuteranopes (people with impaired color perception of green).
Sergei Klyuchnikov
psychologist, director of the center for practical psychology
The perception of color is influenced by living conditions, the state of a person in at the moment, vocational training And general condition organs of vision. Physiological causes include visual defects, such as color blindness, as well as situational mood. In a gloomy mood, a person reacts to dark shades, and when positive mood The picture for him becomes sunny and cleaner.
Sophistication in identifying colors also plays a role. This aspect may be related to natural conditions or special training. Northern peoples who live in Chukotka or Alaska distinguish much more colors of snow, since the success of hunting and survival depend on this. Professional education also plays a role: artists have a sharper palette of perception.
To an ordinary person It is enough to see approximately, and he already draws a conclusion about the picture. Due to the visual culture that has now befallen us, the array of color information, people no longer recognize shades, they define them rather by shape. Color has ceased to be an indicator in our conditions.
Mikhail Levin
artist, curator of the Pre-foundation Art & Design and " Contemporary art» at the British Higher School of Design
From the point of view emotional perception colors are influenced by cultural background, social status, and upbringing in the vision of color. People associated with creative activities are distinguished by their observation of colors. When a person is constantly in contact with this, he sees color more sensitively and deeply and places accents more strongly.
In order for a color to be perceived calmer or, conversely, to cause an emotional outburst, a certain harmony of colors is created. And this combination can just influence perception. The same red can be perceived differently depending on the color around it. There are scientific works by Joseph Albert about tools for influencing the perception of colors.
Perception also varies depending on the conditions and location. This is why artists always work in daylight - colors are perceived better in a natural environment.
These experiments with a dress and sneakers look like some kind of illusory trick. I think this is because the image is shown digitally. The human eye reacts differently to images on the screen. There are settings that you can use to adjust color rendering. For some, it is more suitable when the color is more saturated, but for others, high contrast begins to hurt the eye.
Again, about cultural perception: a parallel can be drawn with. For a person raised in Japanese culture, a riot of color is typical, but for a European it is not. Many of my students complain about this exhibition as a painful experience: some even get headaches. We are just not used to perceiving such intensity of colors.
Tests
More than two years have passed since a strange-colored dress appeared on the Internet, which caused a huge amount of controversy and gossip.
And now users of the World Wide Web are arguing about what color this pair of sneakers is.
Initially, one of the users posted a photo with sneakers on his page on the social network Twitter, then the photo spread throughout the Internet.
Optical illusion
So take a look at this photo. What color are the sneakers?
Some claim that the picture shows sneakers gray with blue (or menthol) laces. Others claim that this is a pink pair of shoes with white laces.
Briton Nicole Coulthard put on public display a photo of Vans sneakers that one of her friends sent her.
The catch is that she still can’t figure out what color these sneakers are – gray with mint blue laces or pinkish with white.
The girl herself claims that the shoes pink color. However, she wanted to know what Facebook users thought. Nicole posted a photo and asked what people thought of her.
"Guys, what do you see in the photo? Please confirm that the color of the sneakers is pink and white," Nicole captioned the photo.
The girl said that her friend bought the shoes some time ago and sent a photo to her mother. To which she confidently stated that “blue suits her.”
Optical illusion trick
“My friend retorted that the sneakers were pink. But when she looked closely at the photo, she also saw that they were blue. How can this be? After all, she definitely bought pink ones!” – Nicole continues her story.
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Remember how two years ago the Internet went crazy trying to determine what color the dress was: white and gold or blue and black?
And last year’s flip-flops (black-blue, white-gold, brown-blue, blue-gold...)?
Now the networks are overwhelmed by a new wave of controversy. Briton Nicole Coulthard posted a photo of sneakers that a friend sent her. However, she still can't decide what color these shoes are - gray with turquoise laces or pinkish with white.
On her Facebook, Nicole addresses her subscribers:
“Girls, what do you see? Please tell me it’s pink and white!”
Nicole said that a friend bought these sneakers a couple of weeks ago and sent a photo to her mom, to which she noted: “And blue suits you!”
The friend objected to her mother that the sneakers were not blue at all, but even pink. But looking at the photo again, she saw turquoise! Despite the fact that I bought them as pink!
Such incidents can be recalled endlessly - there were also disputes about the color of strawberries, about cakes and much more. But it is much more interesting to ask the question: how do such optical illusions arise?
It would seem that most people do not suffer from color blindness - otherwise traffic lights would hardly cope with their purpose. But why then do so many people see seemingly diametrically opposed colors - for example, pink and blue?
How can they be confused?! It's not red and orange, it's not blue and purple, it's not yellow and gold - these are completely different shades!
Here's what scientists say about this phenomenon.
The system of color perception was developed in humans during the process of evolution. We have developed daytime vision, in which we distinguish all elements of the surrounding world, including color.
Light enters the eye through the lens, hitting the retina at the back of the eye. Waves of different lengths differently activate neural connections in the visual cortex, which translates signals into images.
Night vision allows us to see the outlines and movement of objects, but their color range is lost. However, even in daylight, color perception is not always unambiguous: in different lighting conditions, the color scheme of an object is perceived differently, and the brain also takes this into account.
The same color may appear pink-red to us at dawn, white-blue during the day, and red at sunset. The brain makes a decision about the “reality” of color, in each case making allowances for related factors.
This is what explains the difference in perception of the same image different people. Each person has his own visual experience, his own level of concentration, his own specific eye movements. The level of lighting in your own environment, the color scheme of objects that the brain recorded before switching attention - all this taken together makes a difference in perception.
Scientists have known this factor for a long time. But fundamental scientific knowledge itself does not attract such wide public attention: this became possible only during the period of widespread development of the Internet in combination with interesting topic for discussion.
But the artist Mikhail Levin finds his own explanation for this phenomenon:
“These experiments with a dress and sneakers are like some kind of illusory trick. I think this is because the image is shown digitally. The human eye reacts differently to images on the screen. There are settings that you can use to adjust color rendering. For some, it’s more suitable when the color is more saturated, but for others, high contrast begins to hurt the eye.”
Indeed: everyone’s monitors are configured differently, which is a good thing to remember in disputes. Who hasn't discovered that a photo taken on a phone looks completely different on a computer screen than it did on a smartphone?..
Oh, by the way: what color do you think the sneakers are?
A new optical illusion has taken over the Internet again - users social networks people all over the world are discussing what color the sneakers are in the photo.
Briton Nicole Coulthard posted a photo of a sneaker in a Facebook group, accompanied by a question about the color of the shoes - the frame provoked an incredible resonance on the Internet, causing heated debate among users who were divided in their opinions about what color the shoes were.
N. Coulthard, in an interview with Metro UK, notes that a friend bought these sneakers for her a couple of weeks ago - she photographed them and sent the photo to her mother, who replied that “blue suits her.”
“I wrote back to her, ‘They’re pink, mom,’ but then I looked at the photo and also saw blue,” says the girl, who set the world’s social networks on edge with her published photo.
Let us remind you that this is not the first optical illusion that has clashed heads and quarreled users of social networks - let us remember the story of a dress that once “blew up” the network because of an undefined color.
The majority saw the above dress in white and gold, and only a small part said that the dress was blue and black. Disagreements and disputes online have been related to the way our eyes perceive light - each person has his own visual experience and expectations, as well as the level of attention and specific eye movements unique to him.
For example, even what a person looked at before looking at a dress can have a direct impact on what colors they see - the level of lighting in the room in which the person is located also matters.
Illumination is very important for color recognition, which is a combination of how much light falls on an object and how much light is reflected from it. In the case of the dress, some people perceived the image as blue-black, because to their eyes it seems that the lighting is quite strong and there is little reflected light, others perceived more reflected color, so they saw the dress as white and gold.
This issue was dotted by Caitlin McNeil, who published a resonant photo and said that the dress is actually blue and black.
