The Dress: An Interactive Classroom Experiment by Andrew Robinson Precarious Physicist Medium The science behind the controversial blue black, gold white dress The actual dress was black and blue. The confusion came from how lighting and color perception tricked people's brains, making some see it as white and gold. It became a viral example Science explains how time spent outdoors colors your view of #thedress Los Angeles Times Watch the dress change from Black & Blue to White & Gold right in front of your eyes by P Van Medium