Why the hell do horizontal stripes make you look thicker?
Because our brains are dumb
(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
I thought everyone knew that stripes change your perception of something. In this case a lady.
Despite being the same lovely woman, I am infinitely more attracted to her in the horizontal stripes.
Just wondering, are you a PoC?
The vertical is the worst of them.
Yeah, it kind of makes her look like both a bitch and a burglar.
Hips looks wide.
I call shenanigans!
Gj. Thanks for demonstrating this picture is bs.
Not same pose. Look at the different size gaps between elbows and body.
When they said the same pose, they just mean they are front facing, arms to the side, as opposed to different positions for each dress. It’s pretty darn close. She had to change dresses between shots, so the poses aren’t going to be perfectly identical, but they are close enough to make the point that a person looks different depending on the stripes.
Do you really think that extra half inch of daylight between her arm and body somehow faked the result?
The way to do this would be to edit the dress in Photoshop or similar. One picture, three designs and the model is the same in each.
Agreed
Nope, I wouldn’t fully believe it. Actual photos are much more convincing.
I don’t trust any photo manipulation for any reason. I understand that it is often necessary for economic, artistic, or graphic design efficiency, but for things I have to trust, I want real photos.
Computer model with dress (e.g. Unreal Metahuman). Change the material but dimensions stay exactly equal.
Absolutely. When the post is about how things look different based on the patterns chosen, everything we’re looking at has to be the same or we can’t really compare.
This isn’t a peer-reviewed drug study, it’s just a demonstration. Things don’t have to be absolutely perfect to demonstrate the basic concept that the orientation of the stripes makes a difference in perception.
If she was facing front on one pose, sideways for another, and facing backwards for another, I’d agree with you. But three front facing photos, in the same pose, shot from the same distance in the same light, is good enough to demonstrate the difference effectively. I would much rather have this display, over a faked display of the same photo, with the dress patterns applied with AI or something. Then I would doubt the result. But doing it this way convinces me.
If you are demonstrating an optical illusion then the width of the subject must be measurable equal.
I’m sold on the third one being best. Good enough for the Internet.
Also the i think the different collars matters. Low No collar, high black collar, high no collar.
Her knees look different on the right aswell
It’s funny how they also represent an era. Vertical stripes=50s horizontal=90s/early 2000s, slanted =futurama
They say horizontal stripes make you fat. But who tf eats horizontal stripes?
I personally think I use vertical stripes look the most fat
Aren’t french fries horizontal stripes depending how you hold them?
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.
That’s the spirit.
Save some for me
Grandma?
I should really start eating my fries vertically
They’re better diagonal tbh.
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
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
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.
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!
Give her the 'ol Razzle Dazzle
The pyrotechnicrats, the ol’ razzle dazzlers
The magic bean imbibers
The green giant of the rhyme contrivers
Supreme violence of the time describers
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 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:
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.
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.
The horizontal stripes look the best…
I have trouble estimating her position, direction and velocity.
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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.
The dress, it’s power grows.
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.
Also, when people are trying to make a point, inadvertently they’ll stand differently and have different posture ever so subtly.
Yeah, for sure. When I did the overlay I noticed the hands didn’t match up, so I had to look close at the pose to see it’s 3 different images with 3 different real dresses. Sort of defeats the purpose of doing this entirely.
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.
This is the kind of high tech solution that people with a closet would never think of. Good job
What if you paint all the white stripes black? That’d be … mildly interesting.
Why can’t I see your picture? Is it the app I am using?
Might be blocking embedded pictures or not loading pictures from other instsnces? All just guesses.
used lemmy.zip’s CDN, what’s your favorite image site, i’ll copy it over
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.
I feel this would be better as a Photoshop job. Keep the same base and just change the pattern. I guess it might be hard to have the lines follow the shape of the body though
Maybe one dress with three differently colored stripes, then you could filter it so each image only showed one pattern and erased the other two.
