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There's no color more evocative of the changing of seasons and the beginning of a new chapter than burgundy

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Start With a Design Quiz: Tell Unbox the Dress about your gown and what youd like to create

The influence of background lighting on assumptions about the dress color can be clearly seen in the XKCD comic below (from Even though the dress is the same color in both halves of the image, the two instances probably look different to you due to their different backgrounds: In the simulation that follows, we will explore how to model the effect of experience on leading different people to interpret the image differently