the dress is a photograph that became a viral phenomenon on the Internet in 2015.
viewers of the image disagreed as to whether the dress depicted was black and blue or white and gold.
the phenomenon revealed differences in human color perception, which have been the subject of ongoing scientific research in neuroscience and vision sciences, resulting in numerous articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
The dress viral phenomenon
The phenomenon originated from a faded color photograph of a dress posted on the social networking service Facebook.
in one week, more than ten million tweets mentioned the dress, using hashtags like thedress, whiteandgold, blackandblue
The original photo of the dress
Although it was ultimately confirmed that the dress was black and blue, the image sparked a lot of discussion online about different wearers’ perceptions of the color of the dress. members of the scientific community began studying photography in search of new insights into human color vision.
