Assessment of #TheDress With Traditional Color Vision Tests: Perception Differences Are Associated With <i>Blueness</i>
Feitosa-Santana, Lutze, Barrionuevo and Cao approached the dress with standard clinical colour vision measures, since no existing colour vision theory fully accounted for the split. Fifty-two observers completed colour naming, colour matching, anomaloscope settings, unique white settings and colour preference tasks, and their chronotypes were recorded. Roughly two in five reported white and gold, three in ten blue and black, and the remainder some other combination. Every difference reaching significance involved blue percepts. Observers who saw white and gold required significantly more blue in their unique white settings than those who saw blue and black, the two groups differed on anomaloscope matching, and their colour matches to the bright region of the image formed two nearly distinct clusters lying along the range of chromaticities that daylight takes. The authors conclude that variation in attributing blueness may be the determining variable, which they link to how observers interpret the illuminant.
Feitosa-Santana, Lutze, Barrionuevo and Cao approached the dress with standard clinical colour vision measures, since no existing colour vision theory fully accounted for the split. Fifty-two observers completed colour naming, colour matching, anomaloscope settings, unique white settings and colour preference tasks, and their chronotypes were recorded. Roughly two in five reported white and gold, three in ten blue and black, and the remainder some other combination. Every difference reaching significance involved blue percepts. Observers who saw white and gold required significantly more blue in their unique white settings than those who saw blue and black, the two groups differed on anomaloscope matching, and their colour matches to the bright region of the image formed two nearly distinct clusters lying along the range of chromaticities that daylight takes. The authors conclude that variation in attributing blueness may be the determining variable, which they link to how observers interpret the illuminant.
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Feitosa-Santana, C., Lutze, M., Barrionuevo, P. A., & Cao, D. (2018). 'Assessment of #TheDress with traditional color vision tests: perception differences are associated with blueness.' i-Perception, 9(2). Fifty-two observers; every significant difference involved blue percepts; white/gold observers required more blue in their unique white settings. doi:10.1177/2041669518764192
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DOI: 10.1177/2041669518764192