Is That Dress White And Gold Or Blue And Black? The New York Times

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"The information in the picture is ambiguous. People arrive at different interpretations of the lighting in the scene and how light flows...to the dress and eventually the eye. "It's white and gold," the actress replied when asked by Jimmy Fallon, "but it actually sort of looks blue and gold." Dr Paul Coxon, a physicist at Cambridge University, has tweeted that if the dress was combined with social media users' love of cats "the universe would explode". Alana MacInnes, of Uist, and Caitlin McNeill, from Colonsay, sought views on Tumblr about whether it was gold and white or blue. Our perception of color depends on interpreting the amount of light in a room or scene.

Now almost two years since the controversy, science may finally explain why people reported such a split in their perceptions of its colour. "Everyone went to DEFCON 5 immediately when someone disagreed. It was like you were questioning something even more fundamental than their religion," Wired articles editor Adam Rogers said. "Different people can look at the same thing, particularly if it's a photograph displayed on a monitor or phone and claim they are seeing very different things. There are also several versions of the same picture floating around online, and it could easily be a question of which picture you’re looking at.

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Prof Westland explained that the confusion could stem from how we name colours, as there are often blurred lines between how we interpret what colour something is. Prof Westland said that the "strange" lighting in the picture had probably contributed to the confusion. "The surprising thing is that this doesn't happen more often. People think if they take a photo of something, people will see the same thing but of course that is not true." If the photograph showed more of the room, or if skin tones were visible, there might have been more clues about the ambient light. It’s not every day that fashion and science come together to polarise the world.

In fancy terms, it has to do with the way in which light enters your eye, the “chromatic axis” variation, thanks to daylight and the fact that different colors have different wave lengths. BuzzFeed’s Claudia Koerner, meanwhile, unearthed the origin of the picture—in Scotland. A “bride and groom couldn’t decide if the dress was blue and black or white and gold… So they posted the photo on Facebook,” according to BuzzFeed, where you can check out the full yarn.

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When cues about the ambient light are missing, people may perceive the same color in different ways. Within a half-hour, her post attracted some 500 likes and shares. The photo soon migrated to Buzzfeed and Facebook and Twitter, setting off a social media conflagration that few were able to resist. The resurgence of the little black dress as a symbol of change is a reminder that fashion is constantly changing and that new looks are always available. There is something for every occasion with the little black dress, whether you are looking for something classic, trendy, or a little out of the norm. For example, say you know your mug is white, but the light being reflected from the mug is slightly red.

It is highly probable that people who have an additional fourth cone did not get tricked by the blue/black dress, or white/gold, no matter the background light. Some saw the dress as black and blue; others swore it was gold and white. (A small minority saw it as brown and blue.) The resulting debate over its true colors went viral, prompting millions of tweets and causing a brief Internet sensation. Such a large sample size allowed Wallisch to note other patterns among respondents, aside from their sleeping habits. Women and people aged over 65 were “disproportionately” more likely to see a white and gold dress than men and younger people. This could be due to younger generations spending more time indoors, with the vast majority of jobs these days being indoor office-based roles.

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Toddlers may experience a lower level of colour constancy than adults, making the world even more confusing for them. It has also been suggested that Monet was somehow able to disregard this automatic process in order to paint scenes showing how light progressed over the day. To most of us, the change in the colour of light over the day would be less noticeable. He found that larks were significantly more likely to see the dress as white and gold, compared to owls.

As the participants viewed the images, they could identify shades ranging from light blue to dark blue, with yellow/gold accents to dark brown/black accents. Several researchers discovered that the colors people reported are the same as those in the daylight. According to research, people are more likely to perceive a surface as white or gray if the amount of blue varies. Using a gold-tone inverted image, they striped lighter stripes blue while darker stripes were blue. Almost 98% of the participants saw those lighter stripes as vivid yellow today. This image is a fascinating example of something on the edge of a perceptual boundary.

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This leads to ambiguity and the possibility of different interpretations. On 3 March, the Johnstons, Bleasdale, and MacNeill appeared as guests on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in the United States. "We discovered a novel property of color perception and constancy, involving how we experience shades of blue versus yellow," the researchers wrote in the study. A third study, conducted by researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno, recruited 87 college students and asked them to name the colors of the dress. About the same number of participants reported seeing it as white/gold as blue/black .

As you scan over this image, do you see gray or black dots? It's called a scintillating grid illusion, made by superimposing white discs on the intersections of gray bars against a black background. Dark dots seem to appear and disappear rapidly at the intersections, although if you stare directly at a single intersection, the dark dot does not appear. “It has to do with the tiny cones in the back of our eyeballs that perceive colors in a slightly different way depending upon our genes,” explains CNN’s Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen. The fabric of a dress nearly caused the fabric of the Internet to unravel Thursday night, with people engaged in spirited debate over the color of the $80 item, reports CBS News correspondent Elaine Quijano.