The dress is a photograph that became a viral internet sensation on 26 february 2015 when viewers disagreed over whether the dress pictured was coloured black and royal blue or white and gold.
Optical illusion dress blue black white gold.
Take solace in the fact that while others assume the world is lit by.
It s an age old argument which has been dividing opinion since shopper cecilia bleasdale shared a photo of a 50 black and blue dress she was thinking of wea.
Our brains can correct the reflective part of the dress darker to be black or the dark parts of the dress lighter to appear gold.
The phenomenon revealed differences in human colour perception which have been the subject of ongoing scientific investigations into neuroscience and vision science with a number of papers published.
But the illusion is all related to the way.
Don t be scared and confused this is just how our brains work.
Who immortalized the debate in an optical illusion cartoon form.
Blue and black or white and gold.
The dress is blue and black but if you presumed it s gold and white you shouldn t necessarily think that s a bad thing.
Gold and white or black and blue.
Dress colour debate goes global.
A debate about dress colour becomes an internet sensation.
The first step in reaching a truce in the dress war is to construct a demonstration that can show to the white and gold crowd how the very same dress can also look blue and black.
This is a fun viral phenomenon and one that is a useful teaching moment.
Other people are deciding that it is less illumination on a white gold dress it is.
The dress color debate is the result of an optical illusion.