BREAKING NEWS: Majestic Dress Discrepancy Hits Home

This just in, a major discrepancy has surfaced across the globe due to a controversial Tumblr post by a widely-known specimen that appears to be a woman. Many people have feared a possible outbreak of war and utter chaos due to a simple disagreement over a dress. For some, the dress is black and blue, others see it as white and gold. This picture quickly grew more popular and popular as time went on. This debate is tearing families apart, forcing people to think that certain people are going crazy. Others think that other people are just messing with each other. Others argue that the dress is not even a dress at all (See Video below).

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I am shocked to announce that the dress is indeed colored black and blue. I myself first saw the dress as white and gold, later I saw it as black and blue. We can only turn towards science to answer what the heck is happening. To answer our questions, we have Dr. Smith, a scientist and professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He stated; "We don't take a perfect photo. We have limited information and use context to figure out what's going on." This basically means that our brain tries to solve the whole puzzle, even if there is little information available. The picture taken itself is not of good pixel quality, that's why the image is not 100% accurate of what the dress actually looks like in real life. Another scientist, by the name of John J. Guehl III, stated that; "It (the brain) decides what's the part that counts and makes changes on how it is perceiving the other parts…" This whole dress drama can be seen as an optical illusion and should be dismissed. People should be less concerned about this dress as science shows clear proof that this is nothing to be worried about.

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-      -Written by Dave Skylark (also known as Arhaam Mukati)

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White, gold, black or blue or even pink for Katy Perry

White and gold or black and blue? Seems simple and stupid but this "stupid" question over the dress' colors created a huge debate and for the past weeks, people from all around the word have been sharing, on the Internet, what they see. It all started when a girl, after arguing with her husband, shared this photo on Tumbler asking for the true color of the dress. Since then, this debate became worldwide, and scientists eventually started debating over it too, seeking for a true answer to end all this. They concluded that after all, blue and black was the "true" color of the dress and since different people see different colors because of the different ways our different brains analyze the information it gets from our eyes, it is normal to interpret the color of this dress not in the same exact way. As a matter a fact, it isn't, like many people think, taking a photo with our eyes and posting it in the brain. We take in limited information through our eyes resulting in an imperfect photo and we use the context to figure out what's going on and complete the missing pieces. Some scientists even referred to this dress as an optical illusion saying that the brain figures out the important parts of a picture, and ignores the rest of it. It also decides what parts are important and makes changes on how it perceives the other negligible parts depending on that. Scientists also stated that since the dress takes up most of the photo, there are few details and information in the photo and therefore, the brain has to make guesses about the light when the picture was taken, which can go either way. And once again, since, for each individual, our brain operates differently, some people might pay less attention to the blue background light, and not ignore the white or yellow light, seeing a blue and black dress and vice versa. This interpretation can also be affected by their own personal experiences according to some scientists.

Personally, I find that although this topic may seem useless, if you really understand it and get into it it's actually really interesting because you get to discover and learn how your own brain and body interprets the external world compared to others and how your brain is unique in many ways. To be honest, when I first spotted this picture a couple of weeks ago, I remember seeing a blue and black dress. And intrigued by how and why some of my friends saw it as white and gold, I got back to it a couple of days later, seeing it as well as white and gold. I did the exact same thing again and I went back to seeing it as black and blue. And today, I understand why every time my brain interpreted this visual information differently. And for me, it is really important and meaningful to learn something actually interesting and yet intriguing about ourselves and I am very grateful to Miss. Ahmad for choosing this topic as an assignment.

 

Joseph Moussa 8Y

 

The Color Of #TheDress

It all started with a girl's post on Tumblr that took the whole media
to a storm. A whole worldwide debate began upon what the color of the
dress was, either there was a team black and blue or team white and
gold. While some people saw one of these shades, some actually saw
both! I saw the dress as white and gold, and still see the same color.
This dress created several misunderstandings and finally science
stepped in to help solve this mystery. A professor at the University
Of Pittsburgh name Matthew A. Smith explained that the brain takes
information from the world through the eyes and tries to figure out
what is going on. Each person interprets the image in a different way.
Your surroundings also play a role on how you see the image. People
living in Pittsburgh believe that the dress is black and gold, because
it is the color of Steelers and some local teams. The dress turned out
to be black and blue

Here is a link where AsapSCIENCE explains about the dress:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AskAQwOBvhc

-Nalini Singh

The Great Dress - Color Debate of 2K15

     For the past month, the media has been having a huge rave about a dress that was posted on Tumblr by a 21-year-old, Caitlin McNeill. The photo of the dress was originally token by Cecilia Bleasdale, who was buying a dress for her daughter's upcoming wedding. With the photo being sent to her daughter, Grace Bleasdale, she had also shared it with her newly wed husband, Keir Johnson. Keir and Grace had many various discussions about the color of the dress, with Keir seeing white and gold, while Grace sees black and blue. The true colors of the dress went further in to craze in Twitter when over 1 million tweets included the hashtag #TheDress.

     As from my own encounter with the dress, I saw it as black and blue. Though as science came to the rescue and finally explained this dress. Before we start, the dress was actually BLACK and BLUE (even check out the wedding pictures of Grace and Keir with her mom). The brain has learned to perceive things in many different ways; meaning images aren't processed the way we see it, but how the brain builds it. From the article, Professor Smith said that since the dress took about 90% of the space in the photo, some people forget to focus to on the blue light background, making their brain recognize the dress as white and gold, while the people who ignore the yellow, white light background, the see the dress as black and blue. This leads to the actual lighting of how the dress was taken in.

     This debate took interest in me for a while, but at the end of the day it is just a dress that was bought for a wedding and won't really matter.  

,Valerie Uy 😊

The Dress Debate

So basically, there is a dress which is blue and gold, and everybody that looks at its picture either thinks like its blue and gold or its gold and white. First, a girl took a picture of this dress and sent it to her friend, and her friend saw it gold and white. As a result of this, an argument started, and they noticed that everyone sees it differently. The scientists started to argue about this dress too, and finally, they agreed that its actually blue and gold, and that everyone sees it differently, because of the light around the room, and how your brain sees the picture.  

Wesley Yamac Sunkar    

The Great Dress Color Debate of 2015!

The Great Dress Color Debate of 2015!

The whole color of the dress debate began with a tumblr post asking people what color the dress was. People began arguing over if it was white and gold or blue and black. The reason that people see the dress differently is because the image is not perfect, there is not enough information. Each mind interrupts the image differently by guessing. Our mind makes the guesses out of the little light that their is in the image. People in Pittsburgh even saw it black and gold because of the color of their team the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Taha Sarfraz

Write a short paragraph that explains the central idea of the article. Use at least two details from the article to support your response.

The Great Dress - Colour Debate of 2015

This all began with someone posting a picture on Tumblr asking people what colour the dress was. There has been a really long debate as to what color the dress really is and has ruined many friendships because of constant arguing without scientific evidence. But now, thanks to Matthew A. Smith, a professor of ophthalmology and neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh, says that people don't see the reality behind this picture.   

The scientific truth is that each of our brains see this picture in different ways. When we look at an object, it's colour doesn't only depend on the individual colour that it gives of, but also depends on the colours and objects surrounding that certain object. Everyone processes images differently, our brain and eyes are not the same as everyone else. 

From what I instantly see in the picture, the dress is blue and black.

Sayuri Moodley 

The Great Dress-Color Debate

One day, a girl posts a picture of a dress on her tumblr - simply confused - because her and her friends couldn't agree on what color it was. If I were her, I would just assume my friends were messing with me. However, it turns out these girls were being serious. The picture of the dress spread quickly, and literally started a WAR. Blue and black VS white and gold. Some people were able to see both! how is that even possible? 

Personally, I saw it as white and gold, and it bothered me to find out that the dress was actually blue and black. Either way, it all comes down to science. The reason why people like me were able to see it as white and gold, is because of how our brains perceive images differently. Its not about how we saw it, but more about how our brains processed it. As Professor Matthew A. Smith said, in the photo, the dress took up most of the space, and there weren't many other details visible to help the brain see exactly how it was. That is when our brain starts guessing and filling in information that isn't there. As the article said, the people who didn't pay much attention to the blue background light, saw the dress as white and gold. If you had paid no attention to the bright yellow light coming in from the back, then you would have seen it as black and blue. This also shows how it was possible for people to see it both ways at different times. 

I actually found this whole debate thing interesting, because it showed us what amazing things our brains can do. 

Sana Mehmood

The Great Dress Color Debate of 2015!

The Great Dress Color Debate of 2015!

Many people have been debating about the color of a picture of a dress that was posted on Tumblr. This dress in located in a shop in Pittsburg. The person who posted the picture asked what color the dress was. People answered either white and gold or blue and black. 

Scientists have discovered why people see different colors. Many people think that our eyes see something and then sends it to our brain for us too see something. However according to Professor Matthew A. Smith this isn't the only thing that happened when we see something. Not only do we have too see something but our brain has to interperate what the object is by looking at what is surrounding it. Therefore, in the picture of the dress we can only see the dress and a little bit of the room behind it. People also process things differently that is why people see the dress in different colors. Another reason people see the dress in different colors is that they decide to ignore some things because if we perceived everything humans would go nuts!

Even people in Pittsburg see the dress in different colors because of past experiences. The actual color of the dress in blue and black!

Nina Carlos-De Clercq

The Great Dress Color Debate of 2015

The Dress is a photo taken of a dress which people see different colors. This

photo spread across the internet like a wildfire. Some people though it was blue and black some people thought it was white and gold. the true color of it is actually blue and black. The reason different people see it differently is because of the way ones brain analyzes things. There aren't so many details in picture so the brain has to make guesses to know how the picture actually looks. Some peoples brains actually don't pay attention to the blue lighting in the background which causes them to see the dress white and gold. Some peoples brains don't pay attention to the white and yellow lighting in the background which causes them to see black and blue.

A very nice video to explain this is a video that can be found on Yahoo News:

https://gma.yahoo.com/video/color-dress-111056451.html

The Great Dress-Color Debate of 2015

"It's black and blue, I swear!" 

"No! It's not! It's white and gold!" 

          This debate has been going on for quite a while now because of a picture that has been spread around, thanks to the wonderful internet. I had heard about this dress, and one day, my friend sent me a picture of the dress via WhatsApp, asking me what color the dress was. The answer was obvious to me; "Black and Blue" I replied. "Although other people see it as white and gold or something" I went out later and she even asked her brothers what colors they saw. It was a debate of Blue and Black, White and Gold, "A disgusting green" and white was also an answer.

         "Scientists explained different people saw different colors because of the different ways our brains analyze the information it gets from our eyes." After learning about the brain and the eye in class, I thought about the photoreceptor cells we have in our eyes. Maybe that had a role in why people saw white and gold or black and blue. There was even a theory that if you saw black and blue, that you were depressed. "When the brain does not have enough information, it interprets the image and makes guesses." This is also something we discussed in class. If our eye cannot see everything, our brain interprets what else could be in the picture. Truly, neither sides of the argument is right or wrong, because it's just what our eye sees. But if you ask me, everyone should just listen to Maryam because she's always right because she saw black and blue. :)

Maryam Babar

The Dresses Color?

The central idea that this article is discussing is how our eyes use context to try and guess what we are actually seeing. An example of this is "We don't take a perfect photo. We have limited information and use context to figure out what's going on." - Smith. Another example of this is when the article stated that "With so few details in the photo, the brain has to make guesses about the light when the picture was taken." I think based on these two piece of supporting text and other parts of the text, the main and central idea of this article is how surrounding information affects what we see.

- Ibrahim Ahmed

The Dress Color?

The central idea that this article is discussing is how our eyes use context to try and guess what we are actually seeing. An example of this is "We don't take a perfect photo. We have limited information and use context to figure out what's going on." - Smith. Another example of this is when the article stated that "With so few details in the photo, the brain has to make guesses about the light when the picture was taken." I think based on these two piece of supporting text and other parts of the text, the main and central idea of this article is how surrounding information affects what we see.

The Great Dress-Color Debate of 2015

Recently this year, there has been a dress that went viral on the internet that caused the debate of that color it is. Some say that the color of it is black and blue, but others disagree and say that it is white and gold. I saw the dress as blue and black at first, but later on as gold and white.

After this entire debate, Scientists stepped in to explain everything: the brain perceives the colors you see by using context. So, when the brain doesn't have enough information to interpret an image, it fills in the missing blanks by guessing what could be there, using a few details. As it was explained by the chief of ophthalmology at West Penn Hospital, the brain makes out some parts of the picture it believes to be crucial and ignores the rest. Each person's brain interprets this information differently, which allows some people to see one of the two combinations of colors, or both. Some people ignoring blue and black background light in the image, but others paying attention to that only, blocking out the white light.

According to the scientists who have studied this, it turns out that the original color of the dress is actually blue and black. :)

Sarah Amer

The Great Dress-Color Debate of 2015

The dress that freaked out the internet, the one that even caused fights and arguments, actually had a scientific explanation. Some people saw it as white and gold, some blue and black. But the actual color was black and blue. Sow how can this happen? When the eyes receive light, the eye processes the image but the brain processes the meaning of the image, and tries to make sense of it. When we don't receive enough info, our brain often jumps to conclusions, as you can see in optical illusions. People who payed less attention to the blue background light saw the dress as white and gold. People who payed less attention to the white and yellow light saw the dress as black and blue, and vice versa.

-Dylan Dev

The Great Dress-Color Debate of 2015

     Earlier this year there has been a debate about the color of this mysterious dress. Some argued and said that the dress was white and gold, while others said the dress was blue and black.It all started with an account on tumblr asking people to help him/her figure out the color of the dress. That is when an internet frenzy began over that dress. Arguments broke out all over the world, but as usual science jumps in to ave the day. 

     Scientists have concluded that the reason people saw different colors of the dress, was because of the way our brains analyze the information that we receive from our eyes. But in the case of this picture, the dress takes up most of the picture and so there were few details in the photo and the brain would have to take guesses. And as we all know guesses can go different ways, since at the end of the day, it's all about the way that person sees the image and comprehend the information.

Lina Abdelgabar 

Is It Blue and Black or White and Gold?

This dress became a world wide debate. Some people see the dress as white and gold because your brain makes guesses. When there isn't enough information in the picture (like background color) your brain will make an automatic guess; Since the dress took up most of the picture the brain did not have enough supporting details to make out the actual color. As Professor Matthew A. Smith said "Our brain takes information from the world through our eyes then uses context to try to figure out what's going on" as I said before there wasn't enough context for the people that saw white and gold. Those peoples eyes did not process the blue background the same way the people that saw black and blue did. At the end the dress is originally black and blue. 

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Lamees Alawami 

The Great Dress-Color Debate of 2015

The dress that freaked out the internet, the one that even caused fights and arguments, actually had a scientific explanation. Some people saw it as white and gold, some blue and black. But the actual color was black and blue. Sow how can this happen? When the eyes receive light, the eye processes the image but the brain processes the meaning of the image, and tries to make sense of it. When we don't receive enough info, our brain often jumps to conclusions, as you can see in optical illusions. People who payed less attention to the blue background light saw the dress as white and gold. People who payed less attention to the white and yellow light saw the dress as black and blue, and vice versa.

The Great Dress-Color Debate of 2015

The whole idea of this article was to prove that the dress color was black and blue and that people who see it gold and white are wronge. They proved it using Science . They said that the brain have limited information and it has to guess the rest of the information to find uout what's happening
We don't take a perfect photo. We have limited information and use context to figure out what's going on." said Matthew A. Smith, a professor of ophthalmology and neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh. Another scientist explained that the brain takes the important part of the information he needs and can ignore the rest. John J. Guehl III, chief of ophthalmology at West Penn Hospital, said that the hearing works the same way " A mother can ignore a roomful of noise, but will hear her baby make a sound" he said.

                  Thank you :) 

       Abdelrahman Ghazaly
 

The great dress color debate

From receiving and learning about this very weird Internet debate, i have learnt that the color of the dress is actually blue and black. I still see white and gold in the original picture, but this is for a reason.

The picture shows very few details about the dress, and our brain has to guess the rest, to fill it in. Since we are all unique, our brains interpret the picture in different ways. If the blue and black light are ignored, then we see white and gold, but if we ignore the white and gold light, we see blue and black.

-Jacob Reyes

The Great Dress-Color Debate of 2015 - What did I understand from it?