White gold or blue-black: What's really behind the clothes puzzles

"Swiked" is pretty flabbergasted. Never, says Caitlin McNeill, the woman behind the Tumblr pseudonym, she would have thought, with the publication of a simple photos to break such a debate from the fence. At the then still Celebrities by US rapper would involve including the Prime Minister of Singapore.

Gentleman tricks by saifullah0508 All they did was to post a photo on Tumblr and ask: Is this dress in white and gold or blue-black?
Shortly afterwards debated tens of thousands that question - and the media interviewed perception psychologists and color experts about the ambivalence of human color perception. Rarely learned in such a short time and in such large spread so much interesting and true about this topic - SPIEGEL ONLINE also was on the ball.
The only problem is that the color of the dress unclear depended neither on individual psychological factors have on individual differences in the definition and naming colors. The diversity of display of color and contrast on different displays probably played only a minor role so different as backlights or the weather in the Outer Hebrides.
What really caused the color debate was this: an enormously bad photo.
And that was definitely and without question blue-black dress that had Caitlin McNeill's mother previously worn short to a wedding. In Natura whose color was completely uncontroversial, but on the photograph, the now world-famous strange effect resulted. The McNeill took so curious that they posted the picture on Tumblr. The rest is history - albeit a rather oblique.
And who has what of it?
For Caitlin McNeill, the whole thing is pleasing. On day three after the "Dress Gate" spreads just world the news that the young woman singer in the folk group Canach. That resides on the beautiful Isle of South Uis, famous for its bog mummies and 2.9 billion old gneiss rocks. Also but it does not get any easier for an aspiring young group to be known.
This 320 square kilometers small island is - you guessed it - in fact, where the Hebrides earn the title of "exterior". Directly to the left of it is a respectful distance only Greenland, closer otherwise the continental shelf of Europe - who lives in South Uis, lives in real periphery. But what the heck, it's yet: a lousy phone photo Thanks be