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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.
I see black and blue, no matter what screen or version of that picture I look at. It does not seem to be an issue with the monitor or viewing conditions. 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".
White and gold or blue and black? The dress has confused the internet
But that still doesn't explain why some people's brains assume the lighting is one way and some assume the opposite. Williams himself sees the dress as white and gold. Light is made up of different wavelengths, which the brain perceives as color. Light entering the retina, the light-sensitive part of the eye, activates cone cells that are sensitive to either red, green or blue wavelengths. But the wavelengths your eye detects may not be the wavelengths of the object you're looking at.
The picture of the dress was taken by Ms MacInnes and posted on social media by Ms McNeill. "Those who interpret the dress as illuminated by a blue light will discount for this and see it as white/gold whereas those who interpret the illumination as reddish will tend to see it as black/blue." There company also makes also white, pink and red options, all with black lace. There are, however, no white and gold versions to be had.
White and gold or blue and black? The funniest memes to come out of #TheDress debate
Stay up-to-date on all the latest news from the 3D printing industry and receive information and offers from third party vendors. Neuroscientist Bevil Conway believes ‘The Dress’ phenomenon marked the greatest extent of individual differences in colour perception ever documented. The colour of surfaces A and B are identical. Place your finger over the join where the top and bottom half of the image meet.
Take a look and decide for yourself.Buzzfeed has a poll which currently puts it at 72% white and gold, and 28% black and blue. Right now there are about 2 million votes, so that is probably statistically significant. Wired has even looked at the science behind why people are seeing the dress as gold and white, blue and white, blue and blue or blue and black. As usual, the comments on reddit beneath the viral post are priceless, with some wondering if the above photo represents a blue and black dress that was bleached out on the left, or some other strange phenomena. Thus, people who perceive the surrounding area as dark are likely to see the blue in the dress as white and the black colors as 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 photo of the dress just happens to hit the sweet spot of ambiguity in terms of lighting and shading.
I'm not a relativist; I'm not saying there is no way the world is. There are definite facts about the world and they are discoverable. The only thing that is blue and black or white and gold is people's experiences.
The Blue/Black-White/Gold Dress & Questioning Reality
Weichel put Business Insider in touch with McNeill who said one of the oddest parts of the experience has been watching celebrities share her picture. What is the significance if this hypothesis is right? "An understanding of either sort of bistability, if that's what this is, would be really cool, particularly if we could figure out how to create and manipulate it in the images." The Falcons placed RB Cordarrelle Patterson on injured reserve and signed Caleb Huntley to the 53-man roster.
After all, when you walk outside during the day, every inch of space around you is filled with photons—but it’s not like you see any of them. You see things like buildings and trees instead. Well, ultimately, it's because the neurons in our brains fire a certain kind of way. Human beings evolved to see in daylight, but daylight changes the colour of everything we see. Human eyes try to compensate for the chromatic bias of daylight colour.
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