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Animation of tubular, zebra-striped radial lines rotating around an algorithmically generated small mass of organically shaped grayscale pixels

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Everyone on the Internet in 2015 had an opinion on whether “the dress” was black and blue or white and gold, making it one of the first memes to achieve worldwide virality

The Subject of this Portrait

At the time this portrait was created, the subject was available online at web.archive.org/web/20150227014959/http://swiked.tumblr.com/post/112073818575/guys-please-help-me-is-this-dress-white-and 

Photograph of a woman’s dress that is either blue and black or white and gold depending on how one sees color, against a blurred out yellow-ish white background
The original dress photo posted to Tumblr

Attributes

Subject Name
tumblr_nkcjuq8Tdr1tnacy1o1_500.jpg
Subject Creation Date
02/27/2015
Subject Weight
105,996 bytes (106 KB)
Subject Location
web.archive.org/web/20150227014959/http://swiked.tumblr.com/post/112073818575/guys-please-help-me-is-this-dress-white-and
Entities in Portrait
1 File
Entity Types in Portrait
JPG
Portrait Type
Individual

Portrait Details

Screenshot of a series of flat, radial, zebra-striped lines on the right side of the image and concave, radial, zebra-striped lines (in perspective) on the left side of the image, inside the center of which lies an algorithmically generated small mass of organically shaped grayscale pixels
Portrait detail
Screenshot of a series of flat, radial, zebra-striped lines on the bottom side of the image and concave, radial, zebra-striped lines (in perspective) on the top side of the image, inside the center of which lies an algorithmically generated small mass of organically shaped grayscale pixels
Portrait detail
Screenshot of a series of zoomed in flat, radial, zebra-striped lines on the left side of the image and concave, radial, zebra-striped lines (in perspective) on the right side of the image, inside the center of which lies an algorithmically generated small mass of organically shaped grayscale pixels
Portrait detail

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Documentation of this internet-native artwork is stored permanently on blockchain should future changes in web-based technologies affect how it displays.

Permalink
arweave.net/7vKOTggAkH2IgsVUuLBPwCBScYvwyK7xzJRexuytULI
Format
video/quicktime
Resolution
1296 x 2304
Duration
1'00
Transaction
viewblock.io/arweave/tx/7vKOTggAkH2IgsVUuLBPwCBScYvwyK7xzJRexuytULI

Artist
Eric Corriel
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