This hideous little dress, it seems, is tapping into questions ... it’s under harsh fluorescent light or soft daylight, blue light or yellow light. That’s called color constancy, said Anya ...

What little you can see of the background ... So if you perceive the lighting to be light and bright, you’ll see a blue dress. If you perceive the illumination to be dim, with the dress in ...

Light enters the eye through ... admits that the dress is probably blue. "I actually printed the picture out," he says. "Then I cut a little piece out and looked at it, and completely out of ...

resulting in the impression of a white/gold dress. “The blue and black are reflecting enough light to scale up to white and gold with the overexposure,” Fairchild said. “What little you can see of the ...

Some people see a blue and black dress washed out in bright light. Some people see one interpretation and then switch to the other. Let’s Take Some Averages The striped dress takes up most of ...