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So, because the photo is taken in lighting with a blue hue, it may be causing the blues in the dress to reflect a white color. And while the dress may in fact be blue and black, the lighting does, for some viewers, make it appear to be white and gold. However, the actual physiology of your eye might come into play with how you perceive the dress. According to Neitz, an individual’s lens, which is part of the eyeball, changes over the course of one’s lifespan.
#Thedress colour has sparked fierce debate with people seeing it either as black and blue or in gold and white. By 1 March, over two-thirds of BuzzFeed users polled responded that the dress was white and gold. Some people have suggested that the dress changes colours on its own. Media outlets noted that the photo was overexposed and had poor white balance, causing its colours to be washed out, giving rise to the perception by some that the dress is white and gold rather than its actual colours. Someday last year I opened my Facebook app and almost all the posts on the news feed were this photo — “The Dress”.
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This debate is reminiscent of themes from the movie The Matrix, in which the protagonist Neo realizes that our brains are the source of all of our perceptions and, essentially, of our individual reality. Another related movie is Inception, another movie about altered perceptions and beliefs about reality. Our brains are the most amazing supercomputers that exist. They are constantly computing information to help us perceive the world. Yes, the eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and skin are required to take physical information such as light waves, sound waves, chemicals, and touch into neural signals so that we can sense them. However, it is the brain that constructs our perception of reality for us.
A superficial controversy, to be sure, yet one that underscores serious scientific questions in neuroscience that are related to perception, and the ability of human vision to distinguish surface colors under different lighting conditions. All related philosophical and epistemological debates aside, let’s get down to the science of how and why the general public can’t agree on the color of this fashionable dress. There is an entire subfield of psychology called sensation and perception, within which vision scientists vastly outnumber the researchers who devote their studies to the other senses.
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She saw the dress “obviously blue and black” in real life, and reposted the photo to ask the questions to her followers. On the same day, it went viral and led to further public discussion surrounding the image. “The Dress” is mentioned more than 10 million tweets within a week and covered by other social and mainstream media such as CNN, The Washington, New York Business Journal etc.
At the end of the day, you’re combining a “cool” color with a “warm” color. It’s worth mentioning that it’s hard to go wrong with a black suit and blue shirt combo. When we view an object, the light source reflects off of it and the light waves that reach our eye are processed by photoreceptors in the retina. These photoreceptors send information to our brain, which then constructs our perception of the object.
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There are many cues to depth, and together they limit how good an estimate of depth your visual system can provide. But I've studied individual differences in colour vision for 30 years, and this is one of the biggest individual differences I've ever seen. Black clothing also makes objects seem smaller in size.
But the wavelengths your eye detects may not be the wavelengths of the object you're looking at. Also somewhat to my surprise, I found no effect of time of day when viewing the image, no effect of whether people grew up—or are living now—in an urban versus rural setting. A separate study, conducted by the personal genomics company 23andMe, showed that a person’s genetics doesn’t seem to affect perception of the dress, either. Another early study showed that the dress phenomenon was not merely an artifact of language, or how people choose to classify colors using words. And this is exactly what I found—the effect is subtle but statistically reliable and dose-dependent; in other words the more someone self-identified as a lark, the more likely he or she was to see the dress image as white and gold.
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Well, it turns out some people see it as blue and black, while others see it as white and gold. Despite the Internet memes, how you see it tells you nothing about whether you are depressed, manic, crazy, or whatever. It simply has to do with differences in the way our eyes process light and our brains process visual information. The blue light is being reflected off the dress, and our brains are seeing that as blue. And the black light is being absorbed by the dress, and our brains are seeing that as black.
Photoshop tells us these are the areas of the dress closest to white and gold in the photo. Neuroscientist Bevil Conway believes ‘The Dress’ phenomenon marked the greatest extent of individual differences in colour perception ever documented. For a smart-casual event, consider a black tweed suit with a light blue OCBD shirt and a dusty pink knit tie. A pink tie worn over a blue shirt will coordinate well but will often be eye-catching. Pink is a very “warm” and vibrant color, while blue is an unmistakably “cool” color.
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