Nearly every Windows user has had a run-in with the infamous “Blue Screen of Death” at some point in their computing life.

OK, that dress really is blue and black but it sure doesn't look that way to a lot of people. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

Show that same patch on a neutral black background and I bet it would appear orange." He ran it through Photoshop, too, and now figures that the dress is actually blue and orange.

Is it black and blue? After... The Internet is abuzz with discussion of a photo of a fairly nondescript dress that has become famous in light of a heated argument over what color it is.

That explains how a blue/black dress looks white/gold in an image, but it doesn’t explain why different people see it differently. Fairchild gives two explanations that attribute to the effect: ...