Striped Dress Controversy
A debate between family and friends about the colour of a dress for a wedding has become an internet sensation.
Striped dress controversy. 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. On every platform available blogging sites comment threads and social media users are asking what others see. If we take two pieces of the dress and average the colors in photoshop we get a flat pattern of color.
Alana macinnes of uist and caitlin mcneill from colonsay sought views on tumblr. Not since monica lewinsky was a white house intern has one blue dress been the source of so much consternation. Now neuroscientists have further decoded the phenomenon demonstrating that the optical illusion is linked to.
In february 2015 the photo of a striped dress stirred a worldwide internet debate. On 25 february 2015 an image of a striped dress that appeared to be white and gold in color to some viewers but blue and black to others began to circulate on the tumblr social blogging network. The striped dress appears to be white and gold to some people but blue and black to others a phenomenon that neuroscientists say has to do with how our brains interpret colors differently.
Remember the dress the photograph that sparked an online firestorm about whether the garment was white and gold or blue and black. I want to emphasize that this is not just a isolated weird case. Don t be scared and confused this is just how our brains work.
The dress color debate is the result of an optical illusion. What we perceive is a constructed illusion based upon algorithms that make reasonable assumptions about. Now researchers have studied the phenomenon scientifically.
This question about the color of a dress is unifying the internet in debate. And yes it s blue the fact that a single image could polarize the entire.
