This slide prompted me to go back and re-read the wikipedia article for the dress (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress), and I didn't realize that it still is/ever was a hot topic of research in vision and cognitive science. (As a side note, the dress is actually blue-brown)
brk
How does the perception of color vary from individual to individual?
motoole2
@brk There can be physiological differences from individual to individual that affect how we perceive color. For example, approximately 10% of males (and a much smaller percentage of females) are color blind or, more often, deficient in one of the three color channels. One of the most common examples is red-green color blindness, where an individual cannot separate the difference between the two. This might be because one of the cones is missing, or the spectral response of the M- and L- cones overlap too much. In the latter case, there are companies that sell glasses that allow one to more easily distinguish between red and green, by applying a spectral filter to only let certain wavelengths (colors) through to the eye.
This slide prompted me to go back and re-read the wikipedia article for the dress (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress), and I didn't realize that it still is/ever was a hot topic of research in vision and cognitive science. (As a side note, the dress is actually blue-brown)
How does the perception of color vary from individual to individual?
@brk There can be physiological differences from individual to individual that affect how we perceive color. For example, approximately 10% of males (and a much smaller percentage of females) are color blind or, more often, deficient in one of the three color channels. One of the most common examples is red-green color blindness, where an individual cannot separate the difference between the two. This might be because one of the cones is missing, or the spectral response of the M- and L- cones overlap too much. In the latter case, there are companies that sell glasses that allow one to more easily distinguish between red and green, by applying a spectral filter to only let certain wavelengths (colors) through to the eye.