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This debate started on Tumblr last night between a couple, where the girl saw White and Gold and her boyfriend saw Black and Blue. And that's when they almost broke the internet. This ugly dress went viral within hours.
Scientifically: Light enters the eye through the lens—different wavelengths corresponding to different colors. The light hits the retina in the back of the eye where pigments fire up neural connections to the visual cortex, the part of the brain that processes those signals into an image. Critically, though, that first burst of light is made of whatever wavelengths are illuminating the world, reflecting off whatever you’re looking at. Without you having to worry about it, your brain figures out what color light is bouncing off the thing your eyes are looking at, and essentially subtracts that color from the “real” color of the object. “Our visual system is supposed to throw away information about the illuminant and extract information about the actual reflectance,” says Jay Neitz, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington. Wired
So what colors do you see? Are you Team White and Gold or are you Team Blue and Black. Let us know.
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