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"What's happening here is your visual system is looking at this thing, and you're trying to discount the chromatic bias of the daylight axis," Bevil Conway, a neuroscientist who is now a senior investigator at the National Eye Institute and the National Institute of Mental Health, told Wired at the time

Whether you saw blue and black or white and gold, one thing is certain: #TheDress remains an icon

But we understand a lot more about why

The bright background could be interpreted either as a light source, or as glare (without you even realizing that your brain is making this calculation)

I'm awful with colors lol so maybe someone else has insight on if black and navy would look okay