cover up the legs and see which way they go
― choke on my mess of a schlaporito (k3vin k.), Saturday, 10 January 2009 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh! they go clockwise when you do that.
― jel --, Sunday, 11 January 2009 09:53 (fifteen years ago) link
dudes dudes if you focus on only two of the three spinny girls it looks like they are spinning in opposite directions! sometimes.
― king lame (c sharp major), Sunday, 11 January 2009 13:16 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 11 January 2009 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4fsx6OJUZ1qzx8f2o1_500.gif
― . (gr8080), Friday, 2 July 2010 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
left to right. what does that mean?
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 2 July 2010 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
although dancer at the top is going right-to left.
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 2 July 2010 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
lols.
My hypothesis is that the cat is MAGIC and FLOATY and EXTRA AWESOME.
― kenan, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― kenan, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
the cat is really hypnotic
― sarahel, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Fuck yeah it is, it's a MAGIC CAT.
― kenan, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Clockwise. I can just about make the dancer go the other way (if I look to the side of the image instead of right at her she sometimes starts going anticlockwise and carries on when I look back at her) but I can't make the cat go the other way.
― atoms breaking heart (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 2 July 2010 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Usually I see her going clockwise, but have been coding for three hours and now it's really difficult to not see the dancer going counter-clockwise. Perhaps all the left-brain action of coding makes it dominant? Freaky.
― stet, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link
cat is anti-clockwise, dancer is still -clockwise. I still can't change the dancer to anti-clockwise without looking at the illustrative examples Tipsy posted upthread, and then I get stuck on it until I look at the clockwise illustration again. :'(
― NYC Goatse.cx and Flowers (Merdeyeux), Friday, 2 July 2010 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
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― sarahel, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
xp to stet:
Not freaky at all, though. Practice a bit at changing the direction of the image, and it gets easier and easier to do. In fact it gets so easy that I can blink and the direction changes, without any concentration at all. That don't mean I'm Super Bi-hemispheric Man any more than it means anyone else has a dominant half of their brain.
― kenan, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link
And still, that is a floating cat. Who cares what direction it spins?
― kenan, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i just watched the cat spin for 4 relaxing minutes
― sarahel, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
http://content.ytmnd.com/content/d/7/5/d75e0a3c24bd2f25621b7ebe6036242c.gif
― . (gr8080), Friday, 2 July 2010 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link
^ that one's going counter-clockwise
― sarahel, Friday, 2 July 2010 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
clockwise for me.
― NYC Goatse.cx and Flowers (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 3 July 2010 12:53 (thirteen years ago) link
iirc right-brained is meant to mean "moar creative/intuitive/___________" right?
which is why ilxors voted for it, to cheer themselves up
coz there is NO FRICKIN WAY that chick is going round clockwise
― j/k lol simmons (history mayne), Saturday, 3 July 2010 13:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Last one is clockwise and telling me to kill my parents.
― Three Word Username, Saturday, 3 July 2010 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
there is no such thing as left-brained/right-brained
― the last air bud (crüt), Saturday, 3 July 2010 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Girl and cats going clockwise.
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Saturday, 3 July 2010 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link
that's what dreams are made of
― the last air bud (crüt), Saturday, 3 July 2010 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I can make them spin either way, at will.
Also... INTP. Still. But the margin for T/F gets narrower each time I take it.
― OCD Soundsystem (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 3 July 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Clockwise and clockwise.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Saturday, 3 July 2010 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
why is one of the books on the bookshelf flickering? is it trying to tell me to kill my parents?
― sarahel, Saturday, 3 July 2010 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
WTF? Now it's anti-clockwise and anti-clockwise!
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Saturday, 3 July 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, this thing is bugging me out a bit. I opened it earlier & it was ^ now it is the opposite. Try as I might, I can't *unsee* it either way. Either this is a clever internet joek or I am some sort of schizoid
― death kebab of DEATH (Pillbox), Saturday, 3 July 2010 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't get them to switch direction "manually" either. Just now I opened this thread and the woman was going clockwise again, so I scrolled down to teh cats and they were still going anti-clockwise. I went back up to the woman and she's going anti-clockwise.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Saturday, 3 July 2010 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Look at the legs. When they cross, your brain interprets that as one going behind the other. Tell yourself which one is in front or behind, and you can make the picture switch. It's easy.
― OCD Soundsystem (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 3 July 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
can't get past the right foot touching the ground
― j/k lol simmons (history mayne), Saturday, 3 July 2010 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
there is no such thing as left-brained/right-brainedthere is no such thing as left-brained/right-brainedthere is no such thing as left-brained/right-brainedthere is no such thing as left-brained/right-brained
― PappaWheelie V, Saturday, 3 July 2010 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Of course there isn't. It's just a cool illusion.
― StanM, Sunday, 4 July 2010 06:28 (thirteen years ago) link
it depends on whether your brain is "looking" at the figure from the top or bottom
― the last air bud (crüt), Sunday, 4 July 2010 06:37 (thirteen years ago) link
this kind of changes every time i look at it, but yeah, it was really difficult to reverse them until i read Masonic Boom's "look at the legs" trick.
― circa1916, Sunday, 4 July 2010 07:03 (thirteen years ago) link
With practice, you can make the kitty bounce back and forth, never completing a full rotation.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Sunday, 4 July 2010 12:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't switch the direction with the cat
― Life! The Story of Life (CaptainLorax), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link
my life has no meaning
― Life! The Story of Life (CaptainLorax), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
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― club mate martyr (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link