Can anyone reproduce the white/gold vs. blue/black dress's binary perception effect with a totally different subject?

Question

Yesterday I asked about the strange Internet phenomenon of the dress which people very strongly perceive as either white and gold or blue and black. Here is the original:

There are many theories about why people's perception is so divided, but none of the explanations are really satisfying to me — I understand about white balance, but usually most people seeing a daylit photo incorrectly set to tungsten respond with "what's that weird blue tint everywhere? some kinda instagram filter". Here, though, to some people, the perception is so strong that even the idea of a blue tint is sometimes discounted.

This is fascinating to me as a photographer, and it seems like it should be fascinating to a lot of us, especially because we obsess so much about color calibration and getting colors to be accurate — yet here, the same image, seen by people from the same culture in the same conditions on the screen, clearly is perceived differently.

Rather than speculate on more theories, though, what I want to know is: How can I make a photograph of a different subject which exhibits this very strong binary response? Not something where everyone looks and thinks, I don't know, either way depending on the lighting, nor something where just about everyone is fooled by a consistent optical illusion (like the Rubik's cube color illusion), but a photograph where people will instantly be very passionate about two different perceptions.

None of the various explanations I've seen — even those which include diagrams — are meaningfully generalizable to a real solution. The proof is in the pudding — if an explanation is correct, it will be easy to use it to create a different photograph with the same effect. But I haven't seen one yet.

I don't care how complicated a setup is required... with an originally blue/black object or white/gold, or with gelled lights, or whatever — just, reproduce the effect in another scene. It'd be most interesting to see the effect in a high quality image taken with fancy gear, but if a low-quality cellphone is intrinsically required and you can do it with that, that'd be interesting to see too. And I don't want just examples... I want to know how I can reliably recreate the same effect.

By doing that, we should be able to identify what elements are really essential to the effect — and maybe make use of it in other aspects of photography!

Answer 1

As Count Iblis explained, people likely have a pretty good idea of how that dress should look. The image is ambiguous, but each option cancels the other out - the dress can't be kinda both.
Similar to the picture above, where it is really hard to make the dancer switch direction - but it is possible.

People probably are even less able to switch "direction" when it comes to color perception. I simply can't see a white and gold dress unless you brighten the image. Then, still, I can only imagine what it actually feels like.

You probably would need to find something that some people already tend to believe is one way, while others believe the opposite. Then you'd have to make it so ambiguous, that every interpretation is possible.
The tricky part is to "bake in" that ambiguity. Even when brigthening the dress, the color ratio of the dress to the background stays the same, still letting me interpret the image as a blue, black dress.

The only real chance you'd have to recreate this effect on another subject is to choose something already polarising and then testing out and refining its ambiguous presentation.