Why Do People See Different Colors On The Dress
Camila Farah
Ben dreyfuss bendreyfuss february 27 2015 i was apparently wrong.
In all seriousness i don t believe people see that as something other than some version of gold and white. The reason a colour may look different in a photograph than it is in real life is down to the colour temperature in the environment when you were taking the picture. Colour illusions are images where the object s surrounding colours trick the eye into incorrectly interpreting the colour. If people envisage that it s located in say a room lit by blueish natural daylight perhaps near a window they may see it as white and yellow because our brain tries to remove the blue as a.
People who saw the dress as a white gold color probably assumed it was lit by daylight so their brains ignored shorter bluer wavelengths. A popular hypothesis for why people saw the dress differently was color constancy a perceptual phenomenon by which an object appears to stay more or less the same color regardless of the lighting. What s happening with thedress is that your eye is either. No one knows exactly but wallisch provides one answer in a study published earlier this year.
Conversely people whose brains assume the dress is under artificial lights are more likely to see it as blue because they re mentally discounting yellow. Other people are deciding that it is less illumination on a white gold dress it is in shadow but more reflective this is just like the famous adelson checkerboard optical illusion. White and gold or black and blue. Those who saw it as a blue black shade assumed a warm.
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The most striking thing about the dress that ate the internet is that no one has come up with a definitive explanation for why some people see the colors one way white and gold and others another. If a colour temperature is.Source : pinterest.com