In reality it s light coming off of the computer.
Blue white dress explanation.
Some people see the dress as white and gold while others swear it s blue and black.
And while the dress may in fact be blue and black the lighting does.
Like the capulets and montagues the masses were split into two.
The phenomenon revealed differences in human colour perception which have been the subject of ongoing scientific investigations into neuroscience and vision science with a number of papers published.
The dress in the photo if the photograph showed more of the room or if skin.
Remember the dress the photograph that sparked an online firestorm about whether the garment was white and gold or blue and black.
So because the photo is taken in lighting with a blue hue it may be causing the blues in the dress to reflect a white color.
In the case of the dress some of us interpret those wavelengths to be blue and black and others interpret the wavelengths as white and gold.
The dress is a photograph that became a viral internet sensation on 26 february 2015 when viewers disagreed over whether the dress pictured was coloured black and royal blue or white and gold.
If you think the dress is in shadow your brain may remove the blue cast and perceive the dress as being white and gold.
Some people even flip between the two or see some combination.
The first step in reaching a truce in the dress war is to construct a demonstration that can show to the white and gold crowd how the very same dress can also look blue and black.
Even taylor swift and kanye west weighed in.
Now researchers have studied the phenomenon scientifically.
The brain compensates for the darker blue tinting and interprets the blue part as white and the black part as gold.
The final scientific explanation of the dress illusion long ago way back in 2015 the dress became a polarizing viral behemoth.