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[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 57 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 23 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is the kind of high tech solution that people with a closet would never think of. Good job

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 2 days ago

What if you paint all the white stripes black? That'd be .. mildly interesting.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Why can't I see your picture? Is it the app I am using?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

used lemmy.zip's CDN, what's your favorite image site, i'll copy it over

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Might be blocking embedded pictures or not loading pictures from other instsnces? All just guesses.

[–] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

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.

The dress, it's power grows.

[–] rdri@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

If you zoom in and measure distances in pixels you'll see it's manipulated.

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think the biggest difference is the cut of the dress.

[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago

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.