Despite being the same lovely woman, I am infinitely more attracted to her in the horizontal stripes.
I call shenanigans!
Her knees look different on the right aswell
Razzle dazzle camouflage!
I’m genuinely surprised so many people are familiar with this.
It’s something talked about in perception courses/classes.
The lines make it difficult for humans and machines to accurately gauge depth perception.
For humans it’s related to mach bands. And the way lateral inhibition works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_bands https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lateral_inhibition&wprov=rarw1
It’s funny how they also represent an era. Vertical stripes=50s horizontal=90s/early 2000s, slanted =futurama
Something feels manipulated about this, but it also feels like the author/photographer went out of their way to make sure you couldn’t prove it was manipulated
If you zoom in and measure distances in pixels you’ll see it’s manipulated.
What you’re likely seeing as throwing you off is differences because this is an actual human wearing this - PLUS it’s essentially an optical illusion. This isn’t 3 versions of the same image with just the pattern changed. So yeah, these are actually not perfectly matching up if you overlay them on top of each other. I wouldn’t say manipulated per se, just that they’re 3 different images so they’ll have some differences.
Yup.
So let’s take the body/pose on the right, copy it to all three positions mask the dress only, and overlay only the dress pattern in the same mask to actually show the differences between the patterns only.
I agree with you, but if you measure the width of the dress at the tip of her fingers, the left and right are about 99-100 pixels, while the middle one is 105 pixels wide. Her face in all three images is about 38-39 pixels wide (measured at the earlobe), so that rules out they stretched the entire image slightly. But 5 pixels is significant enough to kind of muddy the validity of the OP’s message since it no longer rules out all but the appearance of the dress. It sadly happens that sometimes effects are exaggerated, even when there is a real effect at play.
I think the biggest difference is the cut of the dress.
Bingo
Look at the amount of visible background inside the elbows. They are each increasing in conforming the body as you move to the right.
Can someone repost this using something other than Imgur? They block the UK and Mullvad (though if someone is using Mullvad and can access it, let me know what server you’re using please)
EDIT: nevermind, I can see it through the web version of Lemmy, just not through Sync or Imgur directly
Can someone repost this using something other than Imgur? They block the UK
You gotta get out man.
Source : left the UK after brexit
Never had a problem with the se-xxxx-wg-xxxx servers. Can view directly from Sync.
That sucks :(
Nah it’s fine, I’m getting used to having to find workarounds to use my VPN. For example, my GP’s online system blocks any connections from outside the UK so I end up using my work laptop
Oh, does Imgur not block Proton? I thought all VPN IPs were in a list somewhere and blocked en-masse, I wonder why Mullvad doesn’t work then
Never had a problem with Imgur using PIA.
Occasionally Imgur is blocked but you can just switch the VPN to a less populous country and it will not be blocked. Still annoying though.
Ahh, that makes sense, thanks!
You’re the real hero, here.
I thought everyone knew that stripes change your perception of something. In this case a lady.
They say horizontal stripes make you fat. But who tf eats horizontal stripes?
Aren’t french fries horizontal stripes depending how you hold them?
I should really start eating my fries vertically
They’re better diagonal tbh.
That’s why I eat mine up and down like a baby bird
If you’re only chewing your own fries you’re missing out on a great family activity.
Thanks, I threw up in my mouth a little bit.
Save some for me
Grandma?
That’s the spirit.
So which one is supposed to be the good one? Her body looks identical to me in all three photos.
Really? To my eyes, the vertical stripes are unflattering, the horizontal stripes accentuate her figure in a good way, and the diagonal stripes make her look somewhat slimmer
I see a perfect hourglass figure in all three pics, with just the right amount of curves.
There’s this old propaganda that horizontal stripes make you look “fat,” e.g. bad, and vertical stripes have the opposite effect, thinning, e.g. good. This is harmful rhetoric, as it encourages women to overprioritize looking thin.
It is true that the horizonal stripe dress accentuates the curves, whereas the vertical stripes diminish them. But the values ascribed to these features are ass-backward. Curvy is good! Love the horizontal stripes personally.
I don’t think anyone here is against the horizontal stripes. The vertical ones don’t make her look fat, they just totally obfuscate her figure and make her look shapeless
First one: I better watch out, she’ll call a foul on me
Second one: I better watch out, she’s probably a felon on the run
Third one: I can’t watch out because I don’t know where she is
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Brb tossing out any horizontal stripes I have left from my closet.
Wait what about flannel? The stripes are perpendicular, so would they cancel each other out?🤔
Horizontal lines are known to do that but I think the photos aren’t equivalent either way. If you cover the dress up or shoulders down, the middle one has a bigger gap between her legs and wider face without being able to see the stripes from what I see.
Loading it into an editor she has about an inch less per hip in the diagonal picture. Its pretty significant.
Ah I see it now. You can also tell by looking at the gap differences between her waist and arms.
Horizontal stripes actually look great on a skinny person. Or any person, if the pattern is good by itself — while these black/white stripes aren’t really a shining example of that (though they would work on a twig-shaped heroine in a 60s French new-wave film).
Vertical stripes are typically boring imo.
Vertical:
Flannel’s plaid disrupts any curves so it’s pretty good for covering up bellies in particular. A big reason I’m a fan of the season of flannel (plus scarfs are nice, too).
Plaid is great in all seasons. I have many pearl snap plaid shirts ranging from thick and warm flannel to super thin beach flannel to just the cotton shirts.
(from left to right) a) trying to look slim b) about to escape from prison in 1930 c) trying to confound enemy nation’s Navy
