The Internet erupted in an energetic debate yesterday about whether an ugly dress was blue and black or white and gold ... color something is, it essentially subtracts the lighting and background ...

Depending on whom you ask, this dress might be black and blue or white and gold. The illusion captured ... The visual system "fills in" the color of the background (assumed to be behind the ...

Without you having to worry about it, your brain figures out what color ... on the black background some might see it as white." He even speculated, perhaps jokingly, that the white-gold prejudice ...