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I've decided she must be turning counterclockwise. I can "see" her turning both ways, but the shadow of the lifted foot only makes sense CCW.

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Well! At least their "most of us will see this counter-clockwise" (initially) assumption is wrong, even though the can/cannot change direction in this poll was probably irrelevant.

I've given up on this, if I haven't managed to see her turn clockwise after four days I probably never will :-/

Thanks for participating in the poll though, what a success! :-)

Surprised so many more people see her clockwise! But then I forgot to vote for anticlockwise (mostly, can just about make her change w/great effort, usually by closing my eyes and dragging the window so she's on the right or thinking very hard about clockwise rotation). Maybe clockwise types are less likely to remember to vote, but that is at odds with our supposedly more logical brains.

(Which I do not really believe in at all, but if someone shows me that ILX sees her mostly clockwise and, say, slashdot sees her mostly anticlockwise, then I will a) believe and b) have to shoot myself)

Uh, "maybe anticlockwise types". You see my more logical brain in action, with skills including "words and language" and "knows object name"? Yeah. Yeah, you do.

fun poll. shame about the piss-poor "science" it peddles. the perth wotsit should be ashamed of itself.

Yeah, does anyone have a link to the paper behind this?

Four months ago, it was on a page about optical illusions, without any mention of brain hemispheres:

http://www.moillusions.com/2007/06/spinning-sihouette-optical-illusion.html

(I don't know whether that means that the brain thing was added as an interpretation later or someone just took it from a scientific study and sent it to the optical illusion guys)

^^ great site ^^

I'm sorry, but this is the gayest <a href="http://www.moillusions.com/2006/07/sinking-house-illusion.html";>"illusion"</a> I've seen recently.

Fuck me.

Aye that's shite :)

I just looked at all the shimmery not-really-moving animated section and thought it was good.

Struggling with these "stereogram" ones.

Wow, I missed this. I firt see it as clockwise, but can make her go back and forth very easily. All you have to do is decide her outstretched leg is passing in front/in back of her supporting leg, and that does it. I suppose that means I have no brain at all.

Counterclockwise at first, then clockwise. Very hard to shift quickly back and forth.

in the morning: counter
in the evening: clockwise

might have something to do with this:
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=60&threadid=2955#msg190

I'm sorry, but this is the gayest <a href="http://www.moillusions.com/2006/07/sinking-house-illusion.html";;>"illusion"</a> I've seen recently.

-- Pleasant Plains, Friday, October 12, 2007 10:24 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

Fuck me.

-- Pleasant Plains, Friday, October 12, 2007 10:24 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

Yeah, that's not an optical illusion. That's cropping.

That's not cropping, that's a bad Monty Python background!

lolololololololol I should have come back to this thread on the 11th.

My father sees it clockwise and he's a statistician

Usually I see it clockwise still... but the shadow of the foot goes anti-clockwise and that's a fact, so I can make it switch by watching that.

Is this really a sinkin' house, away in the horizont? Hardly possible, but yet appears so.

O-oh (O-oh)
O-oh (O-oh)
O-oh (O-oh)

Swanananani (nanani, nanani, nanani)

Ay-ay! A mighty cyclone!

(Chorus: Mikael)
She moves her body like a cyclone
And she makes me wanna do it all night long
Whoo!
Going hard when they turn the spotlights on
Because she moves her body like a cyclone
Ay!
Just like a cyclone
Whoo!

She moves her body like a cyclone
And she makes me wanna do it all night long
Whoo!
Going hard when they turn the spotlights on
Because she moves her body like a cyclone
Ay!
A mighty cyclone!

(Baby Bash:)
Now look at that peppa'
On the back of that bumpa'
She aint even playin
When she's shakin that ruppa'
And oh, you aint know?
She gets lower than a muffla'
Even with her girlfriends
Show stopping with a hustla'

The way she move her body
She might see the Maserati
She wanna put it on me
Tryna show me her tsunami
She make it hard to copy
Always tight, never sloppy
And got an entourage
And her own paparazzi

Now there she go again
Ridin through the stormy weatha'
You betta button up
If you wanna go get her
Cause it is what it is

Errybody wanna love her
But when she pop it boy
You better run for cover
Ay-ay!

(Chorus)

(Baby Bash:)
(See it's a wrap) when she break them boys off a typhoon
(It's a wrap) gotta get that phatty like a boss tycoon
(It's a wrap) now hold it steady cause she make a monsoon
(It's a wrap) now you can Google, download the iTunes

See what I'm sayin
She aint playin
Yeah, she got them heads turnin
You gon' hear it clack, clack
When them heels get to burnin
Stiletto so fuego
She got her own label
And got us all doin the tornado
Ay-ay!

(Chorus)

(T-Pain:)
Ay! Ay!
Shawty got looks (and)
Shawty got class
Shawty got hips (and)
Shawty got ass
When she hit the stage
She drop it down low, like
Eer reer reer reer reer reer reer reer reer

Ay!
This is cra-ZZYYYY!
It's ama-ZINGGGG!
It must be the way of the la-DYYYY!
(Like) Eer reer reer reer reer reer reer reer reer
Oh-oh!

(Chorus)

(Outro: T-Pain)
Eer reer reer reer reer reer reer reer reer
Eer reer reer reer reer reer reer reer reer
Eer reer reer reer reer reer reer reer reer
Reer
Oh-oh!

She moves her body like a cyclone

No mention of the quiet hole in the middle, eh? Typical.

was this thread on ilx really a year ago? man time flies fast out of a monkey's ass.

so I wanted to post a complaint about left-brained people. they just don't get it, knowhaimsayin?s
Know any people who don't really know what it's like to be moved by music? or how certain notes can hit certain lifetone when performed in the right sequence? Or how angsty singers should often times be shot in the face, and complex angsty music through instrumentation can be a higher form of art - as subtle nuances go? OR how these left brained people don't even notice that there is emotion in say an instrumental track.

Know any left brainers that can't comprehend why a book or movie ended the way it did, because they lack the emotional comprehension skills (at the time) that allow us to perceive how an ending of a piece of art fits in it's 'right' place?

Shit, cuz if you do know people like this, it's like you have to constantly explain yourself. why can't they just get it.

[end rant posed in the for of a question]

now why is it that this girl is going anti-clockiwise (left-brain) for me right now (was it like that for me the first time?)... I eventually saw her spin both ways the first time I saw that image, but I think it's the initial direction that counts if it takes you at least a couple minutes to get her to spin the other way.

she's all over the place for me

that's not what she said

the fuck is this shit. when i scroll down she changes sometimes. but when i look really hard the one leg clearly passes in front of the other, so how tf can i see it both ways? argughghjfmekldsmx

a fuller explication. (may be already linked upthread, i don't know.)

thankig u, cool shit

..see the KRUNK SPiNNiNG DANCER
..see the KRUNK SPiNNiNG DANCER
..see the KRUNK SPiNNiNG DANCER
..see the KRUNK SPiNNiNG DANCER

is grady's mom zooming in or zooming out???

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/PappaWheelie/mom.gif

grady's mom is zooming hot

my mom: she's going anti-clockwise
(five seconds later)
my mom: now she's going the other way

what does that mean "centrally brained"?

http://www.shamozzle.com/Pic3ThreeInOneAll3NakedSpinningNudeDancerGirlsLeftRightBrainTestAnimation3.gif

That's head-explosingly great, that.

my mom: she's going anti-clockwise
(five seconds later)
my mom: now she's going the other way

what does that mean "centrally brained"?

― Fran Dreschantino (tron), Saturday, January 10, 2009 7:11 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark

generally brained

I didn't see this before, but I am totally left-brained, I can not get her to go the other way...

Except when there is three of them! Then they are all over the place.

I never saw a picture in a magic eye painting either!

cover up the legs and see which way they go

Oh! they go clockwise when you do that.

dudes dudes if you focus on only two of the three spinny girls it looks like they are spinning in opposite directions! sometimes.

i can still only see it clockwise. :( apart from on that third one up there! i should surely be able to do it now! but no.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4fsx6OJUZ1qzx8f2o1_500.gif

left to right. what does that mean?

although dancer at the top is going right-to left.

lols.

My hypothesis is that the cat is MAGIC and FLOATY and EXTRA AWESOME.

Btw, it's really super easy for me now to change the direction that either the cat or the dancer is spinning. I barely have to take my eyes off the image. I think my brain has caught on to this particular trick.

the cat is really hypnotic

Fuck yeah it is, it's a MAGIC CAT.