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The picture on the left is the infamous black and blue dress. The picture on the right is what happens to the picture on the left when you adjust the lightest point of the dress to white (which would also explain the completely burned out background of the original picture).

WADR to all the really interesting things people have had to say about the science of perception, I'm going to vote for an instagram filter error.

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[out_there]

Huh. I've got to say, I looked at the dress and thought white and gold (dingy off-white and olive-ish gold) and had no idea how anyone was looking at the picture and seeing black and blue, unless their monitors had very strange settings.