aje dress Fleur Mini Dress-COLLAGE FLORAL / 6 Founded in 2008 Day 8 Styling: Aje Dress

When the dress occupies most of the image, some people take the blue cloth as their reference for the illumination and so see the dress as white cloth in blue light and the black frills as gold or yellow

But think of it this waybecause a woman on a tiny Scottish island decided to post a strange photo to Tumblr, I (and probably millions of people the world over) learned about color constancy, this amazing adaptive calculation we didnt even notice our brains are doing every second of every day

Some feature online superstar 'Grumpy Cat' while another uses Kim Kardashian, who caused her own internet sensation when she 'broke' the internet with her post of her own racy magazine cover

But the most likely explanation is that colour constancy is responsible for the differences of opinion

What little you can see of the background shows this overexposure (and that overexposure has been digitally enhanced in some versions floating around the internet). His colleague Roy Berns agrees