Remember that online debacle over a certain dress that some people saw as blue and black while others thought it was white and gold? Well, it turns out that optical illusions aren’t as rare as one might think and scientists have weighed in on the causes of some the internet’s strangest optical illusions and why people perceive colors differently.
Artwork, including paintings and photographs, have been baffling optical illusions for centuries, and while most of these illusions originated on the Internet, scientists looked back to some of the older illusions for their research.