The dress and eye color

[RK800]

My eyes are blue and green (bi-colored eyes, yay) and the dress, if I look at the screen straight on looks like a grayish-white and gold and using gimp to check the colors confirms this.

The colors are browns, blue-grays, grays, yellows and whites. The picture was probably edited in some way or the camera was terrible.

If you play around with the contrast you get this:

The dress got an absurd amount of coverage when it came out, so much of this work has been done. While the majority of people see it as white-gold, you can find at least one other picture of the dress in which it's clearly blue and black, and the store entry for the dress which also labels it such.

As far as I know, however, there are only a few tentative theories about why this is such a compelling optical illusion. If anyone knows more, I'd be interested in reading it.

I've heard it has to do with how you brain perceives the lighting behind the dress (like if you brain thinks it artificial light instead of natural).

[Larien]

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