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The dress illusion can be explained by lighting assumptions.
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INSUFFICIENT LEANING
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Is it true that the dress illusion can be explained by lighting assumptions?
Unclear. A textbook and a Wikipedia article describe lighting assumptions and poor white balance as popular explanations for the dress illusion, but neither presents a settled scientific account, and a review notes no theory fully explains it.
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The dress - Wikipedia. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress
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Ploran, E. J. & Foley, H. J. (2025). Sensation and Perception. play.google.com. https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=mO2VEQAAQBAJ&source=gbs_api
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