[Pic] right brain vs left brain

[limok]

if you look at it an angle you will find it alternates clockwise and anticlockwise. if you look at it dead on straight its always anitclockwise

[Manic9803]

explain what you mean?

Its on a relay, or a timer. It goes from clockwise to counter clockwise.

[benplace]

Its on a relay, or a timer. It goes from clockwise to counter clockwise.

No its not.

[PyX]

Clockwise first, but I can also see her go counter-clockwise... when I switch between both I need some time for concentration though :p

[snyper]

Its on a relay, or a timer. It goes from clockwise to counter clockwise.

No, its not...

[benplace]

This works for me, if I look at her toe on the leg sticking out and run my eyes up her leg towards her mid section it changes direction. That work for you guys?

Did anyone else try this? It seems to work for me.

[raskren]

Its on a relay, or a timer. It goes from clockwise to counter clockwise.

No it doesn't. It's an animated GIF that contains an illusion. For those of you that don't get it - it contains REAL MAGIC!!!!1

[Manic9803]

No its not.

Oh rly? Solid facts there Benplace, thanks for playin. KTHNXBAI! :rolleyes:

[KeR]

After being able to only see her spinning Clockwise, I managed to get to the point where I can have her spin in either direction.

:D

[benplace]

Oh rly? Solid facts there Benplace, thanks for playin. KTHNXBAI! :rolleyes:

Well I can control when she switches directions, how can that be a timer?

[RuudJacobs.NET]

changes every couple of seconds, depending on me speaking or thinking

[Manic9803]

Well I can control when she switches directions, how can that be a timer?

Illusion? I can stare at it, and not pay any attention I try not to focus and BOOM it suddenly changes. Try to stare at it, without devoting attention to anything. Stare at the leg and the way it swings, you'll see it glitch then swithces. Has nothing to do with our brain's.

[markwolfe Veteran]

Its on a relay, or a timer. It goes from clockwise to counter clockwise.

Hey, Manic.

Since you are so sure you are being tricked, go ahead and open up the .gif in GIMP (free software) or Photoshop or such if you have that. Confirm each frame for yourself, and see for yourself.

Amazing how people can be so stubbornly sure about something that just isn't true. It is playing the same images in the same sequence without reversing. You can play with timing and slow it down, too, if you want to try it at a slower speed.

[Manic9803]

Hey, Manic.

Since you are so sure you are being tricked, go ahead and open up the .gif in GIMP (free software) or Photoshop or such if you have that. Confirm each frame for yourself, and see for yourself.

Amazing how people can be so stubbornly sure about something that just isn't true. It is playing the same images in the same sequence without reversing. You can play with timing and slow it down, too, if you want to try it at a slower speed.

I'm at work at the moment I will have to try this later.

[Kaidiir]

Started off counter-clockwise, then I got it to go clockwise.

:D

[benplace]

Can someone please try looking at her toe on the leg sticking out, and run your eyes up towards her mid section?? This makes it switch for me everytime I do it. I want to see if it does for everyone else

[gigapixels Veteran]

Can someone please try looking at her toe on the leg sticking out, and run your eyes up towards her mid section?? This makes it switch for me everytime I do it. I want to see if it does for everyone else

It didn't work for me, but then again the test seems to be entirely incorrect for me anyway.

[murderdoll]

i r stunned ;/

this is fascinating

[TheDreamX]

This is really weird. It's spinning counter-clockwise and I can't, for the life of me, make it appear any other way. Freaky!

[Phalesafe]

It's so hard not to focus on the nipples :laugh: But I guess if she goes both ways everyone is in for a good time :rofl: Seriously - I guess if your "Middle Brained" you see her act like a washing machine on agitation.

[Lt-DavidW]

Oh rly? Solid facts there Benplace, thanks for playin. KTHNXBAI! :rolleyes:

Illusion? I can stare at it, and not pay any attention I try not to focus and BOOM it suddenly changes. Try to stare at it, without devoting attention to anything. Stare at the leg and the way it swings, you'll see it glitch then swithces. Has nothing to do with our brain's.

You are wrong.

You jumped to a conclusion based on your blind faith in a deceived perception, knowing full well that this thread described it as an illusion in the first place. Perhaps you don't quite understand what an illusion is:

Illusion

il?lu?sion

?noun

1. something that deceives by producinfalse or misleading impression of reality.

2. the state or condition of being deceived; misapprehension.

3. an instancebeing deceived.

4. Psychology. a perception, as of visual stimuli (optical illusion), that represents what is perceived in a way different from the way it is in reality.

This is a silhouette of a spinning womA silhouette looks the same whether the object in questionx degrfromaway from the angle of incidence.

This means that when she is looking directly to the left and appearing to spin clockwise, it will look like she moves through 90 degrees to face away from the viewer, when in fact a viewer seeing her spin anticlockwise would instead say that she is factowards the viewer. Again, this is because the light blocked by the dancer is the same and symmetrical whether shex degrees from the angle of incidence in either direction.

We only assume this is not possible because we are preconditioned into thinking that everything we view has three dimensional depth. Please think and analyse the facts correctly next time before jumping to incorrect conclusions.

[Cormier6083]

I'm apparently left brained.

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

At first I watched her turn clock-wise, and I looked again, and it was going counter-clockwise.. So I watched very closely, now she only spins clock-wise..

[kernatch]

i've analysed this gif a lot because i saw it on another site first.

1. it is not a cheap trick (e.g. the gif switching randomly)

2. it works because it's a silhouette - you can't tell if certain parts are behind or in front. all there really is is 2D movement and your brain is making it 3D and giving it a rotation. let's focus on one area so i can explain better...

if you're picturing her going clockwise, when you see her out-stuck leg go from the left to the right, you're imagining it going behind her other leg. however, the exact same 2D motion of her leg going from left to right can also be interpreted as it rotating in front of her leg.

3. if it wasn't for the shadow i would say this gif has no ultimate direction, i.e. it is down to your brain's preference. i've studied the shadow long and hard and i believe it shows that ultimately, it is rotating anti-clockwise. this isn't really the point though. let's look at one without a shadow.

same effect, and now we definitely know there is no ultimate direction.

4. to help some people understand, i took a single frame and drew in features. it shows how the same silhouette can be interpreted in two ways.

try opening these up in two tabs and flicking between them.

5. this is just a more sophisticated version of a necker cube

is it facing down and left, or is it facing up and right? with this one it's a lot easier to flip between both. again, ultimately, it's just a bunch of 2D lines. our brain does the rest.

here's a rotating necker cube. it can be perceived as either rotating clockwise or anti-clockwise.

6. i'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with left/right brain theories.

[x-scratch]

well i read things from right to left so what does that tell you & btw this pic made me get a headche