White and gold, or blue and black

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The dress is blue and black.

Scientific explanation: http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/

Actual photo: http://swiked.tumblr.com/post/112158479910/trinititties-snac...

If you see white and gold, as I did, try looking at https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-0njXlUIAARYpf.png then looking back at the original.

I don't know why anyone hasn't done it yet, but heres the colour makeup from mspaint http://i.imgur.com/6BuG9m7.jpg

I did the same thing. The strange thing is this puts you in a third camp nobody is mentioning: blue/gold(brown). Maybe some of our eyes just take it for what it is and don't do background compensation??

I'm in the blue/gold(brown) camp too, although I can consistently see white/gold looking at the top half and blue/black looking at the bottom half.

I came a little late to the party; wasn't really on Twitter a whole lot yesterday.

I clearly see blue and black. Thought this was nonsense until I showed the picture to my girlfriend without context, and asked what color: "White and gold. Why?"

Same happened to me, nearly 8 minutes ago as well!!

Light blue, dark gold. Although the lack of gamma correction makes any color reproduction dubious at best.

Science FTW: http://imgur.com/jlOFmTU

I see white & gold, my wife sees light blue & grey, my daughter sees purple & gold and my son sees white & gold too. Strange, but a great breakfast topic of conversation

From the background you can tell that the dress is not white, because the lighting is not dim. It is clearly a shade of blue dress.

I see only blue and black, but some people claim they see white and gold.

Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1492/

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