If The Dress did your head in, wait until you see some of these.
When the world lost its collective mind about the colour of The Dress, it taught us one important lesson – we cannot trust our eyes (or as it turns out, our friends, family or colleagues).
But as scientists have explained, there is a reason for the blue/black/gold/white fiasco. Some of it is biological – and some of it is the context in which we see the image.
Read more: The science of The Dress made simple.
Azeem Azar, a tech-company specialist, demonstrated how vital context is when he posted this image on twitter.
Going on @skynews with @adamboultonSKY to talk about fashion. (The green and blue are the same colour) #thedress pic.twitter.com/TKdjRYicTj
— Azeem Azhar (@azeem) February 27, 2015
The colours in the spirals are the same – a turquoise colour – but if you put them beside pink or orange and our eyes adjust to perceive them differently. Read more: What celebrities thought about The Dress. Click through our gallery for more colour illusions that are based on the same science of The Dress.
Top Comments
I see it as blue and gold! Cannot and have not ever seen the black in it
I am sure there are being two dresses being interchanged on the net to promote this story and we will all find out how fooled we have been all this time. Otherwise, how come no other descriptions of clothes have ever been so misinterpreted to date. We are all being taken for fools.
Nope, every single image of the dress appears blue to me :) I've looked on about 4 different devices and multiple websites. Two colleagues sat next to each other and looked at the same picture on the same device and saw different things.
Although it's given me a sense of who has developed theory of mind and who hasn't :)
My husband & I saw the dress as white & gold. I called my 2 boys (10 & 7 years old) over to look at the same picture & they both saw blue & black. They are too young to even care about the story & knew nothing about it.
Because it isn't the dress itself, but the freak photo that was taken of it and how different eyes sprocess and interpret what they see. If you wanted to test that theory, download the picture onto a device, then switch off the Internet connection and test it on friends. That way you know that nobody can possibly be switching images.
That's what I thought until a group of my friends post-dinner had different opinions of the same image at the same time!