What color is this dress View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1425006778.141381.jpg
There is no dress.
Your eyes have retinas, the things that let you interpret color. Theres rods, round things, and cones that stick out, which is what gives your eye a textured appearance in the colored part. The cones see color. The rods see shade, like black, white and grey. Cones only work when enough light passes through. So while I see the fabric as white, someone else may see it as blue because my cones arent responding to the dim lighting. My rods see it as a shade (white).
Theres three cones: small, medium and large. They are blue sensitive, green sensitive, and red sensitive.
As for the black bit (which I see as gold), its called additive mixing. Blue, green and red are the main colors for additive mixing. This is where it gets really tricky. Subtractive mixing, such as with paint, means the more colors you add the murkier it gets until its black. ADDITIVE mixing, when you add the three colors the eyes see best, red, green and blue, (not to be confused with primary colors red, blue and yellow) it makes pure white.
Blue and Black: In conclusion, your retinas cones are more high functioning, and this results in your eyes doing subtractive mixing.
White and Gold: our eyes dont work well in dim light so our retinas rods see white, and this makes them less light sensitive, causing additive mixing, (that of green and red), to make gold.
It doesn't matter what color the dress is... It's what's underneath the dress that counts