The final scientific explanation of the dress illusion long ago way back in 2015 the dress became a polarizing viral behemoth.
Blue white dress explanation.
And while the dress may in fact be blue and black the lighting does.
People who see the correct black and blue might be looking at the dress somewhere.
The point is your brain tries to interpolate a kind of color context for the image and then spits out an answer for the color of the dress.
Even neitz with his weird white and gold thing admits.
The dress in the photo if the photograph showed more of the room or if skin.
If you think the dress is in shadow your brain may remove the blue cast and perceive the dress as being white and gold.
In the case of the dress some of us interpret those wavelengths to be blue and black and others interpret the wavelengths as white and gold.
Some people see the dress as white and gold while others swear it s blue and black.
In reality it s light coming off of the computer.
Some people even flip between the two or see some combination.
Even taylor swift and kanye west weighed in.
The brain compensates for the darker blue tinting and interprets the blue part as white and the black part as gold.
Remember the dress the photograph that sparked an online firestorm about whether the garment was white and gold or blue and black.
Now researchers have studied the phenomenon scientifically.
Like the capulets and montagues the masses were split into two.
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.