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WingedAvenger
10-12-2007, 04:29 AM
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22535838-5012895,00.html

For the record, I initially saw the image spinning clockwise, but staring at it for a while I figured out how to see it spinning in either direction.
Kinetix
10-12-2007, 05:12 AM
I'm seeing is clockwise and can't seem to get it to spin the other way.
Joe Schmoe
10-12-2007, 05:38 AM
Wow, I'm left brained apparently. But I did force myself to see the other way, just took a bit.

Now I can't turn it back.. This is really trippy.
Noble
10-12-2007, 05:48 AM
I only saw clockwise, no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get it to change. But I liked that the dancer had perky nipples, very nice.
Nerfed
10-12-2007, 06:36 AM
I'm a right-brainer... which is better than a no-brainer, I guess.
Pinny
10-12-2007, 06:46 AM
Right side for me, same with some of you guys, no matter how hard I tried to make it spin COUNTER-clockwise (WTF? ANTI-clockwise? WTF is that?) I couldn't make it work

Edit: Second try through, I thought about a clock and how clockwise/counter-clickwise works, and now I can make it turn directions at will :O


Edit2: its tough! I'm right sided, though if I think about it hard, I can switch it for about 2seconds
Vendel
10-12-2007, 06:57 AM
I like opening up 2 of them and getting them to spin in different directions then switching them.
The Icy One
10-12-2007, 06:58 AM
Got her spinning both ways when I concentrated.. just wait for the foot to hit the middle, then you can change direction.

Edit: Tried running two.. thats weird.
Poison
10-12-2007, 07:10 AM
I only saw clockwise, no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get it to change. But I liked that the dancer had perky nipples, very nice.
Seconded.
Krypto
10-12-2007, 07:44 AM
Now here's a question, can you guys get her to do a sweeping, arc like motion in front of her with her foot? :P

(i.e. constantly changing from clockwise to counter-clockwise at the middle)
Elemento
10-12-2007, 08:51 AM
Mostly left brained but was able at will to turn her counterclockwise too
Greblaja
10-12-2007, 10:19 AM
Well, I'm a former art major who's now an engineer: I can make it go either way. It spun clockwise for me first, though, which makes sense: I'm a very visual thinker.

Of course, the left side of my brain is thinking this is a bogus test, but I digress ...
Nite
10-12-2007, 10:53 AM
AWESOME! I can get it to spin both ways!.... What the hell does that mean?

EDIT: I can do it... but by accident. I can't do it on purpose :(
8 Ball
10-12-2007, 11:42 AM
It seems to randomally change directions for me...not sure what the hell that means other than my Brain is screwy.
Grae Knight
10-12-2007, 11:53 AM
Clockwise only but I only stared at the perky nipples.
Solario
10-12-2007, 01:27 PM
First time it was clockwise and now it's doing something really, really weird; it's flashing and showing two intersecting figures dancing clockwise and counter-clockwise. That can't be good.
RedSwitchblade
10-12-2007, 01:43 PM
Clockwise.

I cannot comprehend how she could spin any other way. I thought it might get it at one point, then lost it...
bpphantom
10-12-2007, 02:29 PM
I saw clockwise at first, but based on their descriptions of left vs right I'm a mixed-mode thinker.

I did see it change and got it to change back to clockwise... Kind of cool.
bpphantom
10-12-2007, 02:29 PM
First time it was clockwise and now it's doing something really, really weird; it's flashing and showing two intersecting figures dancing clockwise and counter-clockwise. That can't be good.

That may indicate that it's not a perception thing, but that the image actually changes rotation :) Curious, but I'm not going to analyze the animated gif.
Kozzma
10-12-2007, 02:44 PM
Oww..... it is dancing back and forth. it hurts....
RedSwitchblade
10-12-2007, 02:51 PM
That may indicate that it's not a perception thing, but that the image actually changes rotation :) Curious, but I'm not going to analyze the animated gif.

I thought about doing that, but then I opened a second copy of the picture in a new window to get a fresh copy starting a different interval, and both were spinning the same way regardless.
Graphite
10-12-2007, 03:17 PM
Ok, that thing scares the ****ing **** out of me. I look at it, spins one way... glance away to look at the text, the thing starts spinning in another direction, look away, it starts spinnin the other way. At one point it was dancing back and going ape ****. Eventually I figured out that if I look in the left corner of my eye I could manually change the direction!

Overall though, it seems to be spinning clockwise especially when I first look.
Interesting that most of us are seeing Clockwise, which is emotional.... Think it has to do with Sally?
For the record it is also bouncing up and down.


LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking
razoras
10-12-2007, 03:49 PM
I don't believe this has anything to do with left brain vs right brain functionality. It is an optical illusion, and until recently, it's just been that. I'm not sure when people started tacking "psych 101" sounding nonsense to it.
Knightward
10-12-2007, 05:17 PM
Ok, that thing scares the ****ing **** out of me. I look at it, spins one way... glance away to look at the text, the thing starts spinning in another direction, look away, it starts spinnin the other way.

That's what it did to me!!!

And yeah, no matter what she keeps bouncing, but it's all about the nipples anyway. :naughty:
razoras
10-12-2007, 05:27 PM
The "look away" method has usually worked for people I've shot this to in the past. For some people, she'll start spinning the other direction and they can't get her to switch back again.
Knightward
10-12-2007, 06:16 PM
Once I realized that though she kept to one direction.... which was aggravating as hell.
Seraphim
10-12-2007, 06:29 PM
That's not a left brain / right brain test, that's just an illusion....

Flipping back and forth with 2 of them up is awesome.
Ledgerdemain
10-12-2007, 06:31 PM
I originally saw her spinning clockwise, but I could get her to change direction if I concentrated on it. :)
Solos
10-12-2007, 09:16 PM
Yeah i've seen this in optical illusion threads before and the only thing it seems to have with brains is how you give a flat image depth from a light source and familiar shape.
Dr Jack Wolfe
10-12-2007, 09:37 PM
That's what it did to me!!!

And yeah, no matter what she keeps bouncing, but it's all about the nipples anyway. :naughty:

Yeah. She switched all on her own for me too. Didn't have to think about it atall she'd just change in a middle of a thought
Pinny
10-13-2007, 12:06 AM
Optical Illusions ftw
coldcut
10-16-2007, 07:15 AM
Left brained or right brained? Which way is the dancer turning. Counter clockwise you're left brained. Clockwise, you're right brained. Highly unscientific, but still fascinating.

http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5675247,00.gif

And no, it's not a trick. I spent a whole lot of time determining that.
Quakester
10-16-2007, 07:28 AM
Also mentioned in another thread.
sheld0n
10-22-2007, 06:02 AM
The shadow is spinning in the oposite direction and the raised foot seems to be getting bigger as it reaches the left side of the picture (whereas normally it should be getting smaller). I think that's that messes with our brains.
Personally, though, I never managed to get her to do a full counter-clockwise circle. The illusion breaks somewhere in the middle for me.