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The blue and black dress illusion was a phenomenon that occurred in 2015, when people were divided on whether a dress was blue and black or white and gold. The illusion caused a lot of debate and discussion, with people taking sides on what they saw. Long ago, way back in 2015, “the dress” became a polarizing viral behemoth. Like the Capulets and Montagues, the masses were split into two camps — those who looked at the dress and saw blue and black and the others who saw gold and white. They could not see eye to eye and frantically sought to understand why they saw one set of colors while others did not. Even the notoriously nonpartisan Taylor Swift broke her media silence to enter into the fray, siding with team #blackandblue.
However, if people believed the dress was just shadowed in natural light, they thought it was gold and white. BUT… This still doesn’t explain what kind of evil optical sorcery is freaking me the hell out!! When I first saw the photo is was clearly gold and white.
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At least 125 people have died in a crush at an Indonesian football match that has become one of the world’s worst stadium disasters. Hundreds were also hurt in aftermath of home team Arema FC’s loss to bitter rivals at the overcrowded stadium late on Saturday in Malang, East Java. The crush took place after police tear-gassed fans who invaded the pitch. About a week before the wedding, the mother of the bride sent a photo to the couple of what she planned to wear. If you look at the bottom part of the figure, the overall appearance of the graded background looks darker than when you look at the upper part of the figure.
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The photoreceptors convert light rays into nerve signals, which are then processed by nerve cells in the inner retina, sent to the brain, and translated as images. By changing the background behind the cirlces we are forcing our brains to process the colors a certain way. Now, scientists say there’s a definitive explanation for the discrepancy, despite the fact that the dress is confirmed to be black and blue .
When light hits our eyes, the receptors turn these colors into electrical signals that are sent to the brain. Our brains determine the color that we see by blending the signals that each receptor senses — like how a TV screen made of millions of different-colored pixels makes an image. Depending on whom you ask, itmight be black and blue or white and gold. The upper set of colors look noticeably different than the lower set of colors. Here is another optical illusion showing the same principal but only comparing different shades of gray.
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Parts of the image seemed to imply backlighting whereas others implied yellowish, overhead store lighting. Depending how the viewer interpreted this setup, the apparent colors could shift dramatically, from black and blue (the real-life colors) to white and gold. If you assumed that the dress was in a shadow, your brain would subtract out some blue from your internal image of the dress, to account for a shadow’s blueish tint.
“The jacket” divides viewers anew, this time on the question of whether it is white and blue, or brown and black, or another pair of colors entirely. That’s exactly what I found, in a study run on this website last year. I asked Slate readers a number of questions about their lifestyle choices, habits, and the circumstances under which they first saw the image of the dress. Among a group of roughly 8,000 people, I found that 28 percent saw the dress as black and blue and 61 percent saw it as white and gold. Given the inherent noisiness of collecting data online due to extreme variations in viewing conditions, I was quite surprised by the consistency and strength of the effect. The bride and groom couldn't decide if the dress was blue and black or white and gold.
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"This was a wedding on the tiny island that we come from on the west coast of Scotland called Colonsay and about 100 people were there. Ms McNeill told Newsbeat that it all started when her friend's mother wore the dress at a wedding. "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." Place your finger over the join where the top and bottom half of the image meet.
The blue and black dress illusion is one of the most famous optical illusions of all time. The dress, which appeared on the internet in February 2015, became an overnight sensation, with people arguing over whether the dress was blue and black, or white and gold. The illusion is thought to occur because the human brain interprets colors differently in different lighting conditions. Still, it wasn’t clear why some people would take the dress to be in shadows, while others would see it as being lit from overhead.
