As is the case with most color pairings white doesn t compete for attention allowing the warmth of rose gold to shine.
What does the white and gold dress look like.
The internet is going crazy debating the colors of this dress.
Which taking the example yellow and white dress shows that the original dress cannot be white and gold because the inverted colors of white and gold yellow are black and blue.
It does to show the importance of.
People who see gold and white are compensating to the photo s lighting and aesthetic.
As a general rule white is an excellent backdrop for rose gold especially when you really want your rose gold to be the star attraction in the room.
People who saw the dress as a white gold color probably assumed it was lit by daylight so their brains ignored shorter bluer wavelengths.
White and gold or black and blue.
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 point is your brain tries to interpolate a kind of color context for the image and then spits out an answer for the color of the dress.
And just so everyone knows personally when i look at the original picture i see white and gold.
And while the dress may in fact be blue and black the lighting does.
According to ben the photo taken with a camera phone in poor lighting casts the whites in a blue tone and mutes the gold to a darker color.
Which the original dress inverted is not.
According to three quarters of the people in one poll including the author it is gold and white.
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.
People who see blue and black are seeing the photo at face value.
Why people see the dress differently blame your brain and not your eyes for the way you see the dress.
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.
Those who saw it as a blue black shade assumed a warm.
The result can be a serene palette with a pop of sunny glam.
Even weirder is that some people will initially see it as white and gold but then look at an enhanced version of the picture and then see the different version.