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By Jalelah Abu Baker, jalmsab@sph.com.sg, mypaper, Published on Mar 03, 2015, Agence France-Presse
PHOTO: The photo that sparked the online debate (left) and how the dress really looks (right). Even Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, weighed in on the question.
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My Paper, Tuesday, March 3, 2015, Page A9, Lifestyle
IT CAN be hard to believe that a blue/black and white/gold dress broke the Internet last weekend.
An innocent question about the colour of the dress from a teenager on a small Scottish island, posted on social media last Thursday, had unanticipated far-reaching implications.
Everyone from celebrities like Taylor Swift and Mindy Kaling to politicians in the United States, and even Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, weighed in on the question.
Science has come to the rescue to explain the difference in colour perception. Here are five things you should know about the dress that has the Internet world splitting its head.
The dress is blue and black, period.
Peter Christodoulou, owner of British clothing company Roman Originals which made the dress, told the Washington Post that it is blue and black.
But a white and gold version will be out soon.
An actual white and gold version of the dress can be expected by the end of the year. Mr Christodoulou told the Washington Post that there have been many requests for a white and gold version of the dress following the Internet frenzy, and that the clothing company would take about five months to make the dress available.
The science behind it
If you see the dress as white and gold, your brain has removed shadows cast on the dress. In a scientific explanation, the New York Times attributed the divide to "colour constancy", the eyes' ability to assign fixed colours to objects under widely different lighting conditions.
Different people may pick up different visual cues in the image, which can change how they interpret and name the colours, the article said.
Age matters
According to a poll on Buzzfeed, which first picked up the dress colour question and confused the Internet world, age seems to play a part in colour perception. The poll showed that the majority of the 74 per cent who saw the dress as blue and black were above 60 years old.
Why the immense interest?
The Inquisitor online news website, beyond looking at the science of the colour of the dress, delved (dig) into the science of why people care about it.
It seems the vast majority of people "would rather discuss the colour of a dress, a funny, innocuous debate, than deal with hard truths like beheadings by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria", it said.
This is because people do not feel they have much to say about more serious topics because they are not experts, while they are experts on what they see and what they do not.
An innocent question about the colour of the dress from a teenager on a small Scottish island, posted on social media last Thursday, had unanticipated far-reaching implications.
Everyone from celebrities like Taylor Swift and Mindy Kaling to politicians in the United States, and even Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, weighed in on the question.
Science has come to the rescue to explain the difference in colour perception. Here are five things you should know about the dress that has the Internet world splitting its head.
The dress is blue and black, period.
Peter Christodoulou, owner of British clothing company Roman Originals which made the dress, told the Washington Post that it is blue and black.
But a white and gold version will be out soon.
An actual white and gold version of the dress can be expected by the end of the year. Mr Christodoulou told the Washington Post that there have been many requests for a white and gold version of the dress following the Internet frenzy, and that the clothing company would take about five months to make the dress available.
The science behind it
If you see the dress as white and gold, your brain has removed shadows cast on the dress. In a scientific explanation, the New York Times attributed the divide to "colour constancy", the eyes' ability to assign fixed colours to objects under widely different lighting conditions.
Different people may pick up different visual cues in the image, which can change how they interpret and name the colours, the article said.
Age matters
According to a poll on Buzzfeed, which first picked up the dress colour question and confused the Internet world, age seems to play a part in colour perception. The poll showed that the majority of the 74 per cent who saw the dress as blue and black were above 60 years old.
Why the immense interest?
The Inquisitor online news website, beyond looking at the science of the colour of the dress, delved (dig) into the science of why people care about it.
It seems the vast majority of people "would rather discuss the colour of a dress, a funny, innocuous debate, than deal with hard truths like beheadings by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria", it said.
This is because people do not feel they have much to say about more serious topics because they are not experts, while they are experts on what they see and what they do not.
By Jalelah Abu Baker, jalmsab@sph.com.sg, mypaper, Published on Mar 03, 2015
Reference
- My Paper, Tuesday, March 3, 2015, Page A9, Lifestyle
- http://epaper.mypaper.sg/emnd/fvxen/fvxp/fvxpress.php?param=2015-03-03
- http://mypaper.sg/lifestyle/5-fun-facts-about-famous-dress-20150303
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