Dress Color Experiment
The original photograph of the dress The dress was a 2015 online viral phenomenon centred on a photograph of a dress. Viewers disagreed on whether the dress was blue and black, or white and gold. The phenomenon revealed differences in human colour perception and became the subject of scientific investigations into neuroscience and vision science.
The phenomenon originated in a photograph of a. Rather than seeing the color of the dress itself as either white or blue with gold or black trim, the participants reported seeing a spectrum of shades from light blue to dark blue, with yellow. Crucially, the demonstrations established that #thedress phenomenon occurs not only for images of the dress but also for the real dress under real light sources of different spectral composition and spatial configurations.
The science of color perception
Keywords: #thedress, color perception, spatial context, chromatic illumination, color constancy, material. PICK A COLOR In one of the first experiments with The Dress, Bosco Tjan of the University of Southern California and his colleagues asked students to match the blues and golds in the photograph. Science We Finally Know Why People Saw "the Dress" Differently Remember "the dress"? It disrupted our understanding of color, and, yes, it took science two years to catch up.
The picture of the dress of arguable quality sparked the question, "what is the *REAL" color of the dress? Technically, when you take it out of bad lighting - it's blue and black. Here is the original image in the middle, with the version on the left white-balanced as if the dress was white-gold, and the right version white-balanced as if it was blue-black. Wired So what colour is it really? The Wired design team did some Photoshopping and found that the dress is, in fact, blue.
Experiment according to dress color (D13~D17) | Download Table
In a language-independent measure of perception, we asked subjects to identify the dress' colors from a complete color gamut. The results showed three peaks corresponding to the main descriptive categories, providing additional evidence that the brain resolves the image into one of three stable percepts. What experiments can help us to resolve this deep mystery? I believe we need to reconsider many basic experiments to explore individual difference in hue discrimination, scene segmentation, color constancy of different material properties, and color memory.
Overnight the color of the dress phenomenon blew up all over social media. If you are unsure of what this is, it was the debate over whether a dress was white and gold or blue and black. Social media went crazy, with talk shows discussing the debate and celebrities tweeting arguing what the true color of the dress was.
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Scientists became so intrigued that they even started their own.
