Your brain is right

[ralusek]

Or left, I'm not sure. Unfortunately, I don't know the validity of this claim, since I can very easily change the direction she spins, but the claim is:
If you were viewing her from the top, a counter-clockwise spin means you're Left-Brained (Logical), and Clockwise spin means you're Right-Brained (Creative).

Now, granted, I have opened this up a few times and seen her spinning in different directions on different occasions. After a little, I tried making her change directions by concentrating, and it's not too hard. Try looking at her feet, and understand that the foot going behind the leg and to the left is going to make her spin counter-clockwise, and behind and to the right is clockwise. If you start at the feet, get it to switch, then focus on the whole thing, it's not too hard to change. We're a little more complicated than "left or right brained," i'm afraid.

http://media.noob.us/leftrightbraintest.gif

EDIT: Mixed up the brain hemispheres :D

[ZacD]

For me it switches when I take my eyes off of it.

[adam]

I love that one and love other illusions like it.

POST MORE OPTICAL ILLUSIONS!

[MRico]

I saw this a while ago...and couldn't make it spin counter-clockwise....and still...it keeps rotating clockwise for me.

[Autocon]

OH SHIT THATS NUTS!

[Mezz]

I saw this a while ago...and couldn't make it spin counter-clockwise....and still...it keeps rotating clockwise for me.

+1

Seriously. Am I missing something? I can't even figure out how I'm supposed to see her spinning a different way... does this mean I've been using the wrong side of my brain all along? o.o

[Joshua Stubbles]

It switches for me every time I glance at the the foot reflection and back up.

[Junkie_XL]

+1

Seriously. Am I missing something? I can't even figure out how I'm supposed to see her spinning a different way... does this mean I've been using the wrong side of my brain all along? o.o

scroll down so you only see the reflection for a bit...then quickly drag the mouse up fast scrolling all the way back up and at the same time take your eyes off it by looking at the polycount banner very fast. The figure then goes counter-clockwise in your peripheral vision and you can slowly look down at it and it'll remain counter-clockwise.

[killingpeople]

What side of brain are you when you see her boobs facing you the entire time she spins?

[slipsius]

it started by spinning clockwise. but i can change it to counter clock wise with ease. niiiiice

[ralusek]

What side of brain are you when you see her boobs facing you the entire time she spins?

Amygdala.

[Frump]

I've seen this before and I can make it go both ways. I prefer the way it looks going counter clockwise though. Not that that makes any difference. Is there any more optical illusions like this?

[ralusek]

Here's another one. It looks like segments of the grid are rotating, but it's really just one grid. Very frustrating, and I already have a headache:
http://www.moillusions.com/wp-content/uploads/i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb234/vurdlak8/illusions/dor_grid_300x300.gif

EDIT: and a better example:
http://www.moillusions.com/wp-content/uploads/i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb234/vurdlak8/illusions/dor_grid_fast.gif

[pior]

hehe
one trick to change her spin : try 'switching' it when the two legs become one silhouette. Easy!
Not sure why they put the weird floaty castshadow tho. I dont think it adds anything to the illusion?

Mezz, don't worry, that just means you're a girl :P
OH SNAP!!!!!

[arrangemonk]

well it seels im too tired to get it atm (being tired is an emotion) so it spins clockwise
edit:now it spins counter clockwise

[luke]

It switches for me every time I glance at the the foot reflection and back up.

I could only seen clockwise, tried what u said then she turned!

[sampson]

it was clockwise for me like 10 minutes looked away looked back. was anti-clockwise. MIND WAS BLOWN

but according to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spinning_Dancer

"The illusion has been incorrectly[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spinning_Dancer#cite_note-2) identified as a scientific personality test (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_test) that supposedly reveals which hemisphere of the brain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralization_of_brain_function) is dominant in the observer. Under this unproven interpretation, it has been popularly called the Right Brain–Left Brain test,[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spinning_Dancer#cite_note-3) and was widely circulated on the Internet during late 2007 to early 2008."

[danshewan]

MIND WAS BLOWN

This. Couldn't figure out why my brain didn't work (was spinning clockwise), then BAM! The devious wench goes and changes direction, just to fuck with me. What manner of arcane trickery is this?

[Ben Apuna]

Wild! I couldn't get her to spin counter clockwise for the longest time, then bam! she switched.

Strange that what I saw at first was a clockwise spin, I've always thought of myself as left-brain dominant.

Hmm... maybe that's why I chose art over programming as a career.

[arrangemonk]

i hate spinning siluettes, always confuses my brain with switching and looking weird if its rotating the wrong way(perspectively)

[Anuxinamoon]

D: cannot get it to spin counter clockwise

Oh actually I got it after squinting hard core for like 3 minutes.

[teaandcigarettes]

Clockwise here

I will try again when I'm drunk

[danr]

nope ... seen this a load of times and tried all manner of things, but for me it's 100% clockwise.

btw - the whole logical OR creative thing is utter, utter bollocks.

[SyncViewS]

At first glance I see it spinning clockwise, but after some practice it becomes quite easy to switch rotation at will, just don't stare at it, but keep it out of the focal spot, (look at the left or right of the whole picture, a picture wise) and think about the rotation you want to visualize, that's it. Not having to deal with visual details, the brain will fill in with the information you feed it with.

[crazyfingers]

http://image52.webshots.com/452/0/28/99/2909028990044785100zLtkKq_ph.jpghttp://image52.webshots.com/452/0/28/99/2909028990044785100zLtkKq_ph.jpghttp://www.poolparty.com/quotes/images/2007/04/28/rupaul.jpg
Glad to finally get this out of my system, been wanting to post it in the beautiful men thread

[Jackablade]

There ain't no confusion about the direction. You're all crazy. Or possibly in cahoots. That's probably it. Ganging up to bamboozle your fellow forum members. Well I ain't gonna fall for it.

[metalliandy]

I see both directions.
Does this mean we are creatively logical or logically creative?

[Ravenslayer]

or both sides are to lazy to make up which one is more active :D

no i see it spinning clockwise most of the times, sometimes it switches for a few seconds

[Firebert]

shit! i got clockwise and counterclockwise mixed up and now you made me all logical! you bastard!
if you don't have it, you should get this book... kickas ass.... or at least sit in a barnes and nobles for a couple hours like the rest of the people in there and don't bother buying the thing. :P

[DKK]

Mine wont stop spinning clockwise.

[Martin Henriksson]

It was spinning clockwise then BAM it changed direction and totally stayed like that for a very long time, i was really getting worried i would never be able to do art again but then it changed direction! PHEW!!!

[Needles]

I can make it change direction constantly, it spins right then left and right again.
It never does an entire spin in one direction... My brain hurts lol... but initially i just saw it spinning clockwise

[disanski]

fuck
hhhaahah
thas coolll
i cant believe ti

[Mark Dygert]

I remember this being posted about a year ago... always good to see it again and play with it.

Since we're reposting old stuff, I posted these in the TOA thread a few days ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5xtRdLOopU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VT0wOidQjg

The right brain left brain thing, reminds me of a story NPR did on will power. They suggest its probably easy to occupy your cognitive thought center and the emotional impulsive, creative side will attempt to make decisions. I'm not sure I buy into it but it was interesting to listen too. I would have taken cake even if I had a simple number to remember...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122781981

I wonder if people who can only get it to spin one way "left brain" what happens if they try to memorize a 7 digit number then look? Probably nothing as they are driving hard in cognitive mode?

[brandoom]

Pretty cool really. Last night before I went to bed it was spinning clockwise, now, after just waking up its spinning counter clock wise. I'll check back in a few after I down some necessary coffee. lol.

[bbob]

Lets burn her on the stake, and watch her witches heart bubble.

[Calabi]

Its nothing to do with any cognitive function its just which frame you eyes lock onto in the transition point.

[monkeyscience]

She's spinning counterclockwise and I have science to prove it. Check out the thighs when the two legs intersect, there's a faint white silhouette around the pivoting thigh (bad poser render or something). The silhouette makes it look like the pivoting leg is in front of the extended one when passing and it only makes sense when she's spinning counter-clockwise. QED bitches!

I can get it to switch directions if I stare at the pivot foot long enough. I feel so confused! When she's spinning clockwise I feel the urge to model things and have sex with men, is this normal??

[odium]

All I can see is Miranda from Mass Effects arse now... Nothing else...

[TheWinterLord]

i have seen the rotating gif several times, this time however, it made just 180 turns... back and forth... back and forth... zzz

[Jackwhat]

It was doin nothing but go counter clockwise for a while and then i slapped it in IE so it wasnt so turbocharged ... stared at the legs then freaked the fuck out.

I dont really get the whole right/left brain shit... I've got the book and on "drawing with the right side of the brain" and as a whole i don't get it - anyone can draw in my book, i see no reason as to why one couldnt. I r simple.

[ima]

Rasulek, it wouldn't look like that if the animation was smoother.

That first image doesn't change direction though, EVER.
I don't even get how you could ever get it to, since she's rotating clockwise and that's just how the animation is. Anything else is preposterous!

[Piflik]

I can see both at the same time...she is rotating clockwise, while the reflection is spinning the other direction...am I special? I can also see both sides of the Necker Cube simultaneously...

[FicWill]

Or left, I'm not sure. Unfortunately, I don't know the validity of this claim, since I can very easily change the direction she spins, but the claim is:
If you were viewing her from the top, a counter-clockwise spin means you're Left-Brained (Logical), and Clockwise spin means you're Right-Brained (Creative).

Now, granted, I have opened this up a few times and seen her spinning in different directions on different occasions. After a little, I tried making her change directions by concentrating, and it's not too hard. Try looking at her feet, and understand that the foot going behind the leg and to the left is going to make her spin counter-clockwise, and behind and to the right is clockwise. If you start at the feet, get it to switch, then focus on the whole thing, it's not too hard to change. We're a little more complicated than "left or right brained," i'm afraid.

http://media.noob.us/leftrightbraintest.gif

EDIT: Mixed up the brain hemispheres :D

Your assumed perspective makes all the difference in this test, and has nothing to do with 'brainedness'. This test probably only tells you if you're tall or not. If you assume you're taller than the woman, then it would follow that far elements are higher in screenspace and she's rotating clockwise. If you assume you're shorter, or sitting down, then you assume higher elements in screenspace are closer, and she rotates counter-clockwise.

[divi]

kp has it right. its boobs.

[Calabi]

All it is a series of interlocked frames one set of her going one way with her left leg sticking out and another set with her right leg sticking out.

[Joopson]

...I got the lady spinning clockwise and her reflection spinning counter-clockwise. Am I going to die?

[Firebert]

FicWill: the second i started trying to understand what you were saying, she started turning counter clockwise. suck it.

[ralusek]

anybody who is questioning the validity of the "right brain vs. left" and attributing it to me obviously did not read my post. i very clearly said that i can make her change directions very easily, and have looked at this on different occasions and had her spin both ways by default.

i do not believe this has to do with brain hemispheres. i believe this has to do with your perspective, and that's it. those of you who refuse to see her spinning the other direction are probably stubborn people :D

[Firebert]

i dunno man... the more i think about it, all i see is boobs.

[Anuxinamoon]

http://image52.webshots.com/452/0/28/99/2909028990044785100zLtkKq_ph.jpghttp://image52.webshots.com/452/0/28/99/2909028990044785100zLtkKq_ph.jpghttp://www.poolparty.com/quotes/images/2007/04/28/rupaul.jpg
Glad to finally get this out of my system, been wanting to post it in the beautiful men thread

Its a TRAP!

[claydough]

cro magnon method:

from the same wiki link:


If the foot touching the ground is perceived to be the left foot, the dancer appears to be spinning clockwise (if seen from above); if it is taken to be the right foot, then she appears to be spinning counterclockwise.



blur yer eyes and try to force imagine the foot to be of the opposite side to switch direction.
( me a big dummy, so I actually have to chant: "it's the right foot" repeatedly and visa versa )

When the blured version turns in the opposite direction SLOWLY unblur yer eyes.


anyone draw the shapes for each rotation version yet? ( gif frames )

[achmedthesnake]

MY EYEEEESSS , THE GOOGLES DO NOTHING!

jeez thats awesome - did the squinty trick and back to get ti to woork..

[JFletcher]

Wtf, i'm seeing absolutely nothing, just a girl clearly rotating clockwise, i've tried squinting, focusing in different areas, looking at it in all kinds of odd ways yet its always going clockwise.

I really want to see it. :(

edit:

Nope i honestly cant do it, my brain is just constantly reminding me what side of the body the legs are (if that's what you're supposed to do)

[greenj2]

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/9757/mallrats02dt7.jpg

...


I find with the spinning girl if I unfocus my eyes, don't concentrate on any particular point and just absorb the image as a whole, every few seconds she changes direction. Nice find. :)

[dejawolf]

i got her to alternate spinning clockwise and counter-clockwise every half rotation.
its pretty easy
first cover up the upper body half of the image including the hands, with your hand, then imagine, as the legs are moving away on the left half, that they are instead coming towards you.
then after you can change direction of the legs at will, remove your hand, and try it with the upper body too. at first only the leg will spin towards you, but after some more trying, the whole body will spin.

[ralusek]

greenj2, what girl are you talking about? the picture i posted is of a sailboat...

[hawken]

I have it going clockwise. To make it go anti-clockwise just look at the reflection of her feet.

nice tits

[JFletcher]

I did it!

Man that's fucking weird, i cant get it to change back now, lol. :)

[Soft_Hands]

Sorry, I needed a cheat sheet...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/CO47/fuuuuuuuuuu.gif

[jakelear]

Your cheat sheet should be posted on the wikipedia page. It definitely does a good job of forcing the direction.

[Calabi]

Thats made it even more freaky I've got alternate ones going different directions and alternating.

[Mezz]

Thank you, Soft_Hands. I am officially going to worship you for the next week.

I kept coming back to this page, hoping I could finally make her change directions. And I COULDN'T. And now I can finally see it. :D Apparently I'm not crazy. Maybe.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! :P


I can make her go both ways now.... yyyesss!!!

Edit: "That's what she said!" lol
(sorry, been a looong night)

[Ghostscape]

Sorry, I needed a cheat sheet...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/CO47/fuuuuuuuuuu.gif

This is fucking amazing by bouncing my eyes left to right I can make her bounce forwards/backwards

[griffinax]

O'Shi!

[Blaizer]

omg i see both!!

[Incubus]

Was able to spin it both ways with ease . Cool optical illusion

[Frump]

Using the cheat sheet, looking to each side as she reaches half a rotation to bounce it back the other way... It's crazy, like eye pong or something. Very Amusing. I also got that to happen on the plain version for a while.

[teaandcigarettes]

Holy shit Soft_Hands, that's fucking awesome. I'm going to spend next five hours bobbing my head from left to right.

[AstroZombie]

http://vimeo.com/4791698

[Vitor]

God I finally got it... I think the easier way is to blink your eyes, watching only a couple frames, and imagine the rotation you want to see

[bbob]

Actually! I just spotted a foreshortening fail on the counterclockwise, so the original is made clockwise! :D

if you look at the foot as it is supposed to be close to you on the counterclockwise, the foot gets oddly smaller as it is supposed to get bigger due to being closer, if it really was in the first place.

[keizza]

i could NOT see counter-clock until soft hands paintover.....now.....my brain blow'd up when i look at the original gif.

[MRico]

Thank you, Soft_Hands. I am officially going to worship you for the next week.

I kept coming back to this page, hoping I could finally make her change directions. And I COULDN'T. And now I can finally see it. :D Apparently I'm not crazy. Maybe.


+1 back.

Thanks Soft_Hands I finally saw it happened.

Edit: Now I see them alternating...I blink and they switch...man this shit is weird.

[coldkodiak]

Well, without the cheat sheet, I would take my eyes off the image and watch in my peripheral vision, and my mind would make the figure do a shuffle as if dancing instead of spinning (like kicking a ball in between the legs), and when I look back depending on which leg was shuffling, it would turn differently.


:D

[Jackablade]

Here's another fun one. IIt shouldn't take someone drawing all over it to see the illusion this time.
http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/oo224/Na_Zdorovje/Walls_illusion.gif

[Nitewalkr]

^ can you please state what we have to look for? It says, "the image is black and white but you DID see the color on the walls didnt you." =\

Yes!!! after the bar loads while looking the dot in the negative image, the left one turns yellow and the right one is red for .2 sec before image turned to black and white.

Either this was an illusion fail or I didnt understand moral of the picture at all.

@Original Poster: After observing this for 12 hours I have concluded my opinion on the illusion picture. That it is just a mind game and that there is no right answer to this mystry at all.

[griffinax]

^ can you please state what we have to look for? It says, "the image is black and white but you DID see the color on the walls didnt you." =

Yes!!! after the bar loads while looking the dot in the negative image, the left one turns yellow and the right one is red for .2 sec before image turned to black and white.

Either this was an illusion fail or I didnt understand moral of the picture at all.

@Original Poster: After observing this for 12 hours I have concluded my opinion on the illusion picture. That it is just a mind game and that there is no right answer to this mystry at all.

The idea is, to concentrate at the black dot in the picture and nothing else, so, when the picture actually turns black and white while you're still focusing on the black dot, your eyes will see the surrounding picture as a colored one, but which, is actually b/w.

Called an Afterimage: "An afterimage is a visual impression that remains in the retina after the initial stimulus is removed. The afterimage always has colors that are complementary to those of the original image."

[ZacD]

I can keep the color there on top of the black and white pick if I keep staring and don't blink.

[Jackablade]

Sorry, I needed a cheat sheet...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/CO47/fuuuuuuuuuu.gif
A friend mentioned that this modified image got to the first page of Digg. I suppose that's worth some kind of congrats, Soft Hands.

[Calabi]

Here's another fun one. IIt shouldn't take someone drawing all over it to see the illusion this time.
http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/oo224/Na_Zdorovje/Walls_illusion.gif

It works for me, I see the full colour image for as long as I stare where the dot was, as soon as I move my eyes it turns back into the black and white image.