Between our brain’s color constancy and the eye’s inability to correctly perceive value, we’ve got the perfect recipe for visual confusion—aka the reason that dress went viral nearly a decade ago. Color constancy helps us understand, say, that a white house in shadow is still white—even when it looks bluish-gray. But it also tricks us when we try to objectively see what’s in front of us. In this video, I tried to paint the dress from reference and broke down why some people see blue and black wh
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Between our brain’s color constancy and the eye’s inability to correctly perceive value, we’ve got the perfect recipe for visual confusion—aka the reason that dress went viral nearly a decade ago. Color constancy helps us understand, say, that a white house in shadow is still white—even when it looks bluish-gray. But it also tricks us when we try to objectively see what’s in front of us. In this video, I tried to paint the dress from reference and broke down why some people see blue and black wh
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