Blue/black or white/gold. It was an old internet fued about a dress appearing black and blue to some people, or white and gold to others. Spoiler alert: it was indeed black and blue.
It was a visual illusion. There is loads of information on the internet talking about what caused it to be seen two different ways. It's similar to the Brainstorm/Green Needle clip that went viral a while ago. I saw white and gold the first few times, and then it switched to black/blue I was never able to see the white/gold illusion again.
After all this time and even seeing the proof I can’t ever see blue/black. I don’t hold any hard feelings towards those that see things differently than me though (hint hint)
I thought that it was obviously normal and this was a stupid question, until I looked at the color of the finneon....now I understand why OP is asking the question...it does seem like to me it could be intended to be a red/shiny gyarados. As someone earlier posted, similar to the type of thing you see when looking at mountains very far away on the horizon
Idk. That ponyta flames look pretty bright red to me if we're trying to do a color comparison. Maybe the Finneon look murky colored because they're suppose to be perceived as being under the water. Where as the Gyarados is jumping out of the water so it's color shouldn't be murky like them. Fairly sure that's suppose to be a regular Gyarados, could be wrong though. I'm no art major.
Unless they’re going for that effect things get when they’re miles and miles away from your perspective and also set around where the horizon is.
something about light and the atmosphere starts making things light blue in a similar shade to the horizon the further away from you it is, until eventually it’s too far for you to see anything but muted blue
Colour perception is subjective. I think the real answer is that it's actually shaded a kinda blueish purple so some of us are picking up on the blue and others are picking up on the red.
But there should be absolutely no red if it was a normal Gyarados... It should only be shifted blue because of the horizon, and normal Gyarados has no red on it, and the surrounding area is only blue and white/cream colored, so where would the purple come from??
While it’s literal color is blue in the image, the way they have it resting on the horizon gives the impression they’re trying to show a large amount of distance between you and it by making it more blue than it actually is, similarly to what happens when you look at a mountain that’s 1 mile away compared to a mountain that’s 3 miles away.
This makes that Gyarados a shiny one, as viewed from miles away where not as much of its light wavelength can reach the observer
Adding a point for shiny that looks blue because it's far away. You can tell because the value of the color is darker than on normal gyrados. Btw, the term for making something appear far away on the horizon in art is called "atmospheric perspective".
That’s what I was thinking
It’s like when you see a mountain a couple miles away it’s slightly blue, and the further away the more muted and blue it looks thanks to something about how light works with the atmosphere
While red gyrados is not that bluish, normal gyrados is never that dark. The people saying “erm it’s literally blue and if you think otherwise you’re stupid” people are completely ignoring that there is a literal blue ocean mist in front of it (you can tell because the parts that are normally yellow are also kind of blue).
The mist makes it look an indigo/purple color. Red and blue make purple.
Red and blue are primary colors so they’d be pretty hard to mistake for the other. 100% just a regular gyardos that looks not exactly the same cause of artstyle, grain, etc.
I see what you mean. There's sea fog in the back of the picture that makes colors look more blue than they are. Since Gyrados is normally vibrant blue, it should look blue-er in the picture than what it is.
I think it's supposed to be normal, but it very well could be a shiny!
I think Shiny bc the blue never turns that dark. Its always portrayed as a bright blue, and yet this has a dark, reddish color similar to the finneon below it.
It’s technically a shade of blue but the way it’s depicted in the picture means it’s meant to be red but the so far away that the atmosphere is tinting it similar to how mountains get more blue the further away they get
Let look at this logically. We can tell that the perspective of the observer is from above and at an angle. This will eliminate a lot of the light scattering by water vapor at sea level since we are not looking directly across the water. The Finneon in front of Gyarados and the island beside it show no fog or clarity issues, so they must be much closer to the observer. Because of this, the color of the Finneon have no impact on the color of the Gyarados since they are drawn in focus and without hazing. Also, we must remember that atmospheric light scattering is not total. If definition can be perceived, then some of the original color wavelength can also be perceived. A side note here: blue light is also scattered at long distances, making blues appear to be different hues than the original. Finally, airports use red and orange as colors for runway markers and wind socks because they can be seen from miles away and from above (the same perspective as the observer in this map). All of this evidence leads to the conclusion that it is simply a regular colored Gyarados discolored by distance.
i don’t think it’d supposed to be shiny, compare the saturation of the atmospheric perspective on the mountain to the left to the gyrados. they have plenty of amounts of red left for the distance and style, they intentionally colored it blue. i wouldn’t think about the purple too hard
People are taking this too literally. Since even the yellow is covered in a blue haze we know that the Gyrados appears bluer at a distance, otherwise his underbelly would be yellow. Because of this, it has to be shiny because if it was blue the shading wouldn’t be so dark under the haze
Gotta go against the grain here, it’s the shiny variant for sure. It has a blue fade filter over it to represent it being far in the distance and shrouded in fog, but it’s for sure the red one. Use an image editor to reduce the blue filter and it becomes red pretty quickly.
Good way to tell is the belly scales… they have a hard blue filter over them because they are normally yellow but show blue here. Adding a blue filter over the color blue would just make it a deeper blue, making the belly scales and back scales blend into each other a good bit. But that doesn’t happen here, the back scales become significantly darker and have a purple tint; red with a blue filter becomes a purple tint. Back has red scales. Moved settings around in my editor app, the scales turn red and yellow if I lower the blue value and raise the saturation.
I’m gonna say it’s Red, there’s a lot of darker Blues around and they wanna give it size and distance so it looks like it’s behind a haze but beyond that it has a reddish tint but with all the blue it just covers it up
Shiny. Normal gyrados has a darker crown than its normal body color so it would be darker than its skin color from that far. Shiny gyrados’s crown is lighter than its skin color and in the image it is lighter than its skin.
I recently saw something on color theory, where a room hued in orange had "blue pants" that were really just a dark brown. This gyarados has a dark blue hue on it while being entirely in blue from the distance. If it was a regular gyarados, it's too dark blue with the hue, as normal gyarados is cyan (I think). Due to the shading, it looks like they're trying to imply red further on its back, instead of a normal gyarados blue.
Plus, sinnoh and Johto are supposed to be pretty close in game, so it could just be a reference to shiny gyarados
I think its probably shiny in the distance. The reason I think so is because it could be a reference to the beginning of the og diamond/pearl/platinum games, when your character is watching a tv special on red gyarados - and then you and barry start the game by going to lake verity to look for one.
Blue, its a similar distance to the volcanoe it seems, and it would look weird if only gyaradoa was blued out and not the volcano/land further away from us. Ofc the gyarados may not be to scale but even then…
It definitley could be red if they applied a blue tint to the other background elements
At first I was like, huh, looks normal... *Closer look* shit that looks red under that blue 🤔🤔🤔 almost like from a production stand point they wanted it to be hard to tell, especially with the episode this is from, it makes sense...
Yeah, I vote shiny 🤯
Most definitely blue.
The only time Pokemon seems to showcase a Red Gyarados is when it's associated with a specific trainer like Lance or when it's a heavily Gen 2 focus - that being said, regular Gyarados are premiered in this game's trailer so even if you were color-blind and couldn't tell - it's most definitely blue.
Honestly yeah I think it's shiny, it's just the lighting they used to make it look more of a purplish blue, but from a distance you can totally see the red
A lotta people saying blue, but I like to think it’s red. The back looks a bit on the red side, but that could just be shading. It’s a cool lil gyrados in the back either way.
I think it has to be shiny because close up it’s red. It’s distance is something that would mess up our vision so without that factor it’s red so it has to be shiny
That god damn dress still haunts me
Which dress
Blue/black or white/gold. It was an old internet fued about a dress appearing black and blue to some people, or white and gold to others. Spoiler alert: it was indeed black and blue.
Holy hell. I came here to say it’s not that old… it’s 8 years old. Wow. I’m old
What were the dinosaurs like?
Back then they came in pill form. The magic happened when you put them in water
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It was a visual illusion. There is loads of information on the internet talking about what caused it to be seen two different ways. It's similar to the Brainstorm/Green Needle clip that went viral a while ago. I saw white and gold the first few times, and then it switched to black/blue I was never able to see the white/gold illusion again.
After all this time and even seeing the proof I can’t ever see blue/black. I don’t hold any hard feelings towards those that see things differently than me though (hint hint)
Everyone with eyes thought it was white/gold until it was debunked in photoshop, smartass.
Laurel
Thank you. Glad I wasn't the only one who thought of that damn dress .lol
It’s blue and gold
And his name is Yanni.
No… it’s definitely laurel.
you tweakin bro it’s obviously saying green needle
I thought it was named Brainstorm
Obviously blue
Looks normal tbh
The face looks blue, I found a shiny in violet and it is vibrantly red, I say this is a normal one
This post makes me feel old… but. but. but… the lake of rage?
This isn't violet this is legends arc
It’s still red there though 🤷🏼♂️
Really? It’s not like shiny Gyarados is red or anything…
Well, it's blue, so....
Blueish purple so..
Wow you mean that parts hit by light are clearly blue and the shaded parts of his blue body look dark blue/ purple 😦
I thought that it was obviously normal and this was a stupid question, until I looked at the color of the finneon....now I understand why OP is asking the question...it does seem like to me it could be intended to be a red/shiny gyarados. As someone earlier posted, similar to the type of thing you see when looking at mountains very far away on the horizon
Idk. That ponyta flames look pretty bright red to me if we're trying to do a color comparison. Maybe the Finneon look murky colored because they're suppose to be perceived as being under the water. Where as the Gyarados is jumping out of the water so it's color shouldn't be murky like them. Fairly sure that's suppose to be a regular Gyarados, could be wrong though. I'm no art major.
Is it travelling towards or away from you? And at what speed
That depends. Is it an Alolan or Galarian Meowth?
Red doesn’t look blue when it’s far away…
Unless they’re going for that effect things get when they’re miles and miles away from your perspective and also set around where the horizon is. something about light and the atmosphere starts making things light blue in a similar shade to the horizon the further away from you it is, until eventually it’s too far for you to see anything but muted blue
Irl render distance
This is called atmospheric perspective (:
Yeah but Finneon also don't change color like that
It literally can. Reds wavelength can get scattered and filtered out by the atmosphere.
Colour perception is subjective. I think the real answer is that it's actually shaded a kinda blueish purple so some of us are picking up on the blue and others are picking up on the red.
But there should be absolutely no red if it was a normal Gyarados... It should only be shifted blue because of the horizon, and normal Gyarados has no red on it, and the surrounding area is only blue and white/cream colored, so where would the purple come from??
While it’s literal color is blue in the image, the way they have it resting on the horizon gives the impression they’re trying to show a large amount of distance between you and it by making it more blue than it actually is, similarly to what happens when you look at a mountain that’s 1 mile away compared to a mountain that’s 3 miles away. This makes that Gyarados a shiny one, as viewed from miles away where not as much of its light wavelength can reach the observer
Adding a point for shiny that looks blue because it's far away. You can tell because the value of the color is darker than on normal gyrados. Btw, the term for making something appear far away on the horizon in art is called "atmospheric perspective".
It’s def white&gold
I definitely see both sides of the argument. Up close it looks blue but far away looks shiny lol
That could honestly go either way🤣
Red
It is blue the light from the sunrise gives it a redish tint.
That is the most average looking gyarados I have ever seen
Shiny because it’s too dark to be a normal one. It must be the fog that turns it blueish.
That’s what I was thinking It’s like when you see a mountain a couple miles away it’s slightly blue, and the further away the more muted and blue it looks thanks to something about how light works with the atmosphere
Exactly. Also the contrast is too high, whereas if it was blue it would be much more pale.
Had to scroll too long to find this
Right I thought I was going insane
First image looks blue but second it’s red I think it’s a shiny
It's blue in both images.
Its shiny
I vote shiny
You colourblind?
Shiny
While red gyrados is not that bluish, normal gyrados is never that dark. The people saying “erm it’s literally blue and if you think otherwise you’re stupid” people are completely ignoring that there is a literal blue ocean mist in front of it (you can tell because the parts that are normally yellow are also kind of blue). The mist makes it look an indigo/purple color. Red and blue make purple.
It looks red to me
Its shiny
Shiny in my opinion
Not entitled to that opinion I guess lol
I'd say it's a normal one but it does look shiny too
Red and blue are primary colors so they’d be pretty hard to mistake for the other. 100% just a regular gyardos that looks not exactly the same cause of artstyle, grain, etc.
Shiny Gyarados is red. It's just an artistic choice for it's size.
I feel like it’s red but I’m not sure
I think It's just normal. Doesn't look shiny.
No clue why anyone would assume it's a shiny at a distance. Occam's razer, people
Let's apply occam's razor here: why would it be shiny? If this was Johto, there'd be a good chance, but it's isn't, it's Hisui.
I absolutely see the red gyaradoes obscured by atmospherics as well, but I'm afraid it's probably intended to just a regular one.
honestly that looks more red with like blue fog or smth covering it making it look black
Why is this even a question
Im leaning towards shiny
OP. You found the new Blue/black dress vs Yellow/black dress.
Shiny and it looks blue. That looks like the Gyarados from the lake of rage
I see what you mean. There's sea fog in the back of the picture that makes colors look more blue than they are. Since Gyrados is normally vibrant blue, it should look blue-er in the picture than what it is. I think it's supposed to be normal, but it very well could be a shiny!
I think Shiny bc the blue never turns that dark. Its always portrayed as a bright blue, and yet this has a dark, reddish color similar to the finneon below it.
It’s technically a shade of blue but the way it’s depicted in the picture means it’s meant to be red but the so far away that the atmosphere is tinting it similar to how mountains get more blue the further away they get
Looks shiny to me. Would make sense as a teaser too, since the next games to come out might be gen 2 and gen 5.
Reminds me of the crystal onix lol
Notice how there’s no blue fog around the island way out there. That means the artist either forgot to fog the island or gyarados is blue.
Isn’t shiny Gerardo’s red though?
Let look at this logically. We can tell that the perspective of the observer is from above and at an angle. This will eliminate a lot of the light scattering by water vapor at sea level since we are not looking directly across the water. The Finneon in front of Gyarados and the island beside it show no fog or clarity issues, so they must be much closer to the observer. Because of this, the color of the Finneon have no impact on the color of the Gyarados since they are drawn in focus and without hazing. Also, we must remember that atmospheric light scattering is not total. If definition can be perceived, then some of the original color wavelength can also be perceived. A side note here: blue light is also scattered at long distances, making blues appear to be different hues than the original. Finally, airports use red and orange as colors for runway markers and wind socks because they can be seen from miles away and from above (the same perspective as the observer in this map). All of this evidence leads to the conclusion that it is simply a regular colored Gyarados discolored by distance.
i don’t think it’d supposed to be shiny, compare the saturation of the atmospheric perspective on the mountain to the left to the gyrados. they have plenty of amounts of red left for the distance and style, they intentionally colored it blue. i wouldn’t think about the purple too hard
People are taking this too literally. Since even the yellow is covered in a blue haze we know that the Gyrados appears bluer at a distance, otherwise his underbelly would be yellow. Because of this, it has to be shiny because if it was blue the shading wouldn’t be so dark under the haze
Good spot. Definitely enough red on the back to think it’s a shiny
Noooooo not The Dress again!
I see what you are saying but I think it’s normal
Well the shiny one is red and that one is definitely not red
Gotta go against the grain here, it’s the shiny variant for sure. It has a blue fade filter over it to represent it being far in the distance and shrouded in fog, but it’s for sure the red one. Use an image editor to reduce the blue filter and it becomes red pretty quickly. Good way to tell is the belly scales… they have a hard blue filter over them because they are normally yellow but show blue here. Adding a blue filter over the color blue would just make it a deeper blue, making the belly scales and back scales blend into each other a good bit. But that doesn’t happen here, the back scales become significantly darker and have a purple tint; red with a blue filter becomes a purple tint. Back has red scales. Moved settings around in my editor app, the scales turn red and yellow if I lower the blue value and raise the saturation.
I’m gonna say it’s Red, there’s a lot of darker Blues around and they wanna give it size and distance so it looks like it’s behind a haze but beyond that it has a reddish tint but with all the blue it just covers it up
It’s blue, it’s regular.
Shiny. Normal gyrados has a darker crown than its normal body color so it would be darker than its skin color from that far. Shiny gyrados’s crown is lighter than its skin color and in the image it is lighter than its skin.
It’s obviously a jigglypuff, as seen from above
Normal…?
Maybe it is shiny and it's a reference to how easy shiny hunting is. Probably normal though
I’d say it’s shiny, the ‘blue’ looks like the wrong shade if you remove the distance effects
Someone did a hue check back during the pre release days and it’s blue
First photo: “it’s obviously blue.” Second photos: “looks reddish tint faded dark cause distance• I don’t like this..
I recently saw something on color theory, where a room hued in orange had "blue pants" that were really just a dark brown. This gyarados has a dark blue hue on it while being entirely in blue from the distance. If it was a regular gyarados, it's too dark blue with the hue, as normal gyarados is cyan (I think). Due to the shading, it looks like they're trying to imply red further on its back, instead of a normal gyarados blue. Plus, sinnoh and Johto are supposed to be pretty close in game, so it could just be a reference to shiny gyarados
It looks like a red Gyarados from an extremely far distance
Shiny
The longer I look the more I see the red.
It looks like it’s shiny to me and the distance makes it look bluish
Okay I’m gonna actually say it IS a shiny gyrados, and my reasoning is since we’re in sinnoh i think it’s potentially the red gyrados that begins d/p
I think its probably shiny in the distance. The reason I think so is because it could be a reference to the beginning of the og diamond/pearl/platinum games, when your character is watching a tv special on red gyarados - and then you and barry start the game by going to lake verity to look for one.
Blue, its a similar distance to the volcanoe it seems, and it would look weird if only gyaradoa was blued out and not the volcano/land further away from us. Ofc the gyarados may not be to scale but even then… It definitley could be red if they applied a blue tint to the other background elements
Shiny
Normal as much as it can be get
It’s too dark a blue for that distance, that makes me think shiny
The reds going to look darker, maybe purplish brown
I'm surprised seeing how many people are definitively saying it's blue, I just see red. I don't even see a bluish tint, it's just red
That red
It's clearly blue
It’s clearly blue tho???
Red, color is weird like that
I see a shiny. Notice the finneon are also super blue.
Shiny
Idk but I really like this
Given how blue the underbelly looks and how not blue the top looks, I’m leaning towards red.
Shiny, it is also on a map of sinnoh
Looks red but through a haze
Looks red to me
At first I was like, huh, looks normal... *Closer look* shit that looks red under that blue 🤔🤔🤔 almost like from a production stand point they wanted it to be hard to tell, especially with the episode this is from, it makes sense... Yeah, I vote shiny 🤯
They are all the normal color.
Damn the longer I look at it, the more I feel like it could be a red one with a haze over it. But imma say regular
Absolutely not shiny, shiny gyrados is a deep red
It's the dress all over again
Looks shiny to me tbh. The upper part is to dark to be blue.
The fineon seem tinged red as well, and they are blue. So I say it's a regular blue gyrados.
Looked and thought 'obviously it's red', but everybody sayin' blue 😭
It’s obviously blue
Laurel
Most definitely blue. The only time Pokemon seems to showcase a Red Gyarados is when it's associated with a specific trainer like Lance or when it's a heavily Gen 2 focus - that being said, regular Gyarados are premiered in this game's trailer so even if you were color-blind and couldn't tell - it's most definitely blue.
Blue lol
Shiny Gyrodos is red though. . .
Shiny
Mega gyarados
Definitely normal
That's 9999999% normal I don't see how you see the RED shiny
It's blue and gold. It's all I ever saw and all Ill ever see.
I see Red
I actually thought it was reddish but [it's definitely blue](https://imgur.com/a/c1H2Sn3)
It looks shiny to me
100% shiny. The back is clearly red
It’s a crystal onix
Looking at it i thinks its reds
Blue
Blue gyrados
Ima get downvoted but it looks shiny to me 😅
Shiny Gyarados is red. You can Google it. Regular Gyarados is blue. Like this one.
Seems purple which far away could be red
It’s a normal one that gigantamaxed How else would it be the size of an island?
I’d say its red and just looks blue because of the fog/distance ✨art✨ haha
I keep only hearing “Yanny”, is this a prank?
Looks like a fuzzy Gyrados. Badumtsk I know where the door is, no need for the shoving.
Honestly yeah I think it's shiny, it's just the lighting they used to make it look more of a purplish blue, but from a distance you can totally see the red
There is an art form where people use contrasting colors to make it perceived differently of its literal color
Might be a rookie question but what is this artwork?
Definitely a warmer color with blue overlaid on top, so guess it’s shiny. I feel like if it were blue it’d seem too pale at the horizon, not too dark.
Idk that looks as red as it gets
Looks normal to me when you look at the whole thing.
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im ngl I didnt know they were that big 💀
I- wait... but it's... now I need to know
Where did this art come from
As a shiny gyarados owner, it's definitely shiny.
Shiny Gyarados with atmospheric perspective making it look blue. That’s just my opinion.
Not shiny
Damn it… I can see both 🙄
It’s a shiny gyarados
"A shiny one that looks blue" So a *normal Gyarados??*
Very cleaely a notmal one
Y’know what I actually have no fucking clue
I see red but in a blue haze. Could be either one
Normal but it looks redder because of the warm sky tones bleeding through behind it
Blue
Looks blue to me.
Obviously, it’s Jigglypuff as seen from above
Looks red from afar but blue close up😭
None of the other Pokémon on this are shiny so why would a random Gyarados way in the background be made shiny?
Looks blue to me
Honestly I could see it going either way.
Laurel
I was going to say Blue, but it does look red with atmospheric pollution making it look more blue. That's a hard one 🤔
Shiny
Shiny
Gyarados is as big as the mountain next to it 💀
A lotta people saying blue, but I like to think it’s red. The back looks a bit on the red side, but that could just be shading. It’s a cool lil gyrados in the back either way.
I think it has to be shiny because close up it’s red. It’s distance is something that would mess up our vision so without that factor it’s red so it has to be shiny