The internet erupted in an energetic debate earlier this year about whether an ugly dress was blue and black or white and gold.
Optical illusion dress blue black white gold.
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.
This is a fun viral phenomenon and one that is a useful teaching moment.
It makes the blue part look white and black part look gold.
The dress color debate is the result of an optical illusion.
Company behind optical illusion dress that divided the internet makes it in white and gold so can anyone still see blue and black colours of two tone dress became a topic of global debate on.
Who immortalized the debate in an optical illusion cartoon form.
Gold and white or black and blue.
Dress colour debate goes global.
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.
Don t be scared and confused this is just how our brains work.
A debate about dress colour becomes an internet sensation.
Take solace in the fact that while others assume the world is lit by.
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.
Other people are deciding that it is less illumination on a white gold dress it is.