David Brainard, Ph.D., a color vision expert and psychology professor ... those who saw a picture of a dress originally posted on Tumblr and said it was blue and black, and those who saw the ...

Color scientists already have a word for it: Dressgate. No surprise to those of us whose minds were collectively blown by the dress that’s blue and black to some, and white and gold to others ...

Roman Originals It was the dress which sparked a global debate. Now scientists have finally explained why people couldn’t agree on the color of “that dress.” When the dress went viral in ...

Everyone remembers the moment they were asked and answered this iconic question in 2015: "What color is this dress?" Millions joined in on the viral debate about the color of this $77 lace dress ...

He ran it through Photoshop, too, and now figures that the dress is actually blue and orange. The point is, your brain tries to interpolate a kind of color context for the image, and then spits ...

When cues about the ambient light are missing, people may perceive the same color in different ways. Related Article The Dress in Question A photograph of a dress on Tumblr prompted an Internet ...

Wrong. Because if people identify colors so wildly differently, we’d have arguments about color names all the time. It wouldn’t take some stupid photo of a dress in 2015 to reveal this phenomenon.