But the dress was more than just a viral phenomenon it was a boon to science
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"That's what the brain interprets as colour but its complicated by things like the device you may be viewing the photograph on, the lighting in which you're viewing the photograph and what's going on inside your head
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Therefore, arguably, people who originally saw it this way have better colour constancy
In the third study, US scientists led by Dr Michael Webster, from the University of Nevada, linked The Dress phenomenon to the eye's evolution in the presence of natural lighting.