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10/12/2007 12:11:27 PM · #76 |
Originally posted by colorcarnival:
This hurts my head. I see her going both ways. |
I wanna see her going both ways too... gotta be much more interesting than just spinning.
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10/12/2007 12:12:04 PM · #77 |
| Thats bizarre they always seem to change when I am not looking, how do they know? Can't get them spinning opposite directions but I am sure that would just freak me out so I just quite trying....lol |
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10/12/2007 12:23:14 PM · #78 |
I see it counter-clockwise and then after about 10 seconds she goes clockwise....so what does that make me?
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10/12/2007 12:25:52 PM · #79 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by colorcarnival:
This hurts my head. I see her going both ways. |
I wanna see her going both ways too... gotta be much more interesting than just spinning. |
heh! didn't someone post twins early in the thread? Just keep staring, you know it's got to happen...
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10/12/2007 12:39:27 PM · #80 |
Originally posted by idnic:
I can only see clockwise. Doesn't surprise me. |
So that proves theat predominantly logical brained people can still do creative photography. I will try and glance at it on a Laptop in my photo studio, when I'm in a more creative mood.
Right now I'm at my logical programming PC and it takes effort to make her spin CCW.
Metatate, who is in the more creative dept. coul only see her move in CCW.
The newspaper article MUST have their description switched, I'm Mr-Data and Logical, I see mostly see her spin CW.
ADDED: Mayb later I'll have a beer and see if she spins the other way.
Message edited by author 2007-10-12 12:44:11. |
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10/12/2007 01:02:09 PM · #81 |
Originally posted by anotherday:
CCW all the way!
I actually think that it depends on which "plane" she is spinning. If you consider that she's spinning on a horizontal plane and that you are looking down on that plane, then it's CCW. But, if you consider that she's spinning on a diagonal plane and that you are looking from down below (meaning she just passes the point of her foot over your head) then she's definetly CW.
Do I make myself clear? It's like looking at a watch from above and from below. If you look from above, it's CW, if you look from below it's CCW. So it depends from which angle you look at that lady: from above CCW, from below CW.
edit to add: if you look at her upper body you can easily see she's always turning in the same direction, so it depends if you look from above or from below |
Oh man, how I was wrong.
Earlier I could only see it turning CCW and I was convinced that she is only turning that way. I even asked to collegues of mine to look at it and explain how they saw it, at it was CW. And I just COULDN'T GET IT!
But I am stubburn so I started looking again and again and again. And I DID IT!!! I can make her turn both ways! Youpiieee! My right side is not dead! :)
All I have to do is look at the shadow for a couple of second and image which way I want her to turn...and hocus pocus! |
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10/12/2007 01:22:17 PM · #82 |
Without cheating ;) It's clockwise for me. The only trick that worked to make it appear as a counter clockwise rotation was to shield the top black portion with my hand and just keep staring at the grey reflection part for 10sec or so till it started to go CCW, then took my hand away and viola! My main training it software programming, which involves mostly logic but being creative with what methods to use and how is the creativity part. That I find, is not as fun and super creative as photography.
Message edited by author 2007-10-12 13:24:13. |
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10/12/2007 01:36:56 PM · #83 |
Clockwise no matter what for me.
But, what does the writer of the article have against clockwise?
Quote:"do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?"
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10/12/2007 01:46:35 PM · #84 |
Originally posted by MrEd:
Clockwise no matter what for me.
But, what does the writer of the article have against clockwise?
Quote:"do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?" |
"Anti" clockwise is Brit/Aussie speak for counter-clockwise. For me it started counter-clockwise and wouldn't switch. Stared mindlessly until it started going cw, then as soon as I started reading, it went ccw again. |
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10/12/2007 02:49:35 PM · #85 |
Somebody should post this on a site where people are primarily good at math and science as opposed to spatial and intuitive inteligence. Might be interesting to see the results. I'd do it, but I have no idea where a site like that might be, especially since "math" is a four-letter word for me :)
Message edited by author 2007-10-12 14:50:00.
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10/12/2007 03:03:11 PM · #86 |
I still don't see any clock in the picture :-)
If there was a clock on the floor facing her feet,
Clockwise-CW would be to the RIGHT.
If there was a clock on the cieling facing her head,
Clockwise-CW would be to the LEFT.
So don't worry, it's all in how you look at it. It could be either. I will post a cloned copy of this later that spins in the opposite direction, by putting each of the 32 frames in Reverse-Order.
and maybe one that runs the .gif backwards. The results should still be the same.
ADDED: I'll post each frame separately, too.
Message edited by author 2007-10-12 15:12:28. |
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10/12/2007 03:43:39 PM · #87 |
| it took me a long time to get her going clockwise. It started counterclockwise. I had to imagine her going the other way while tracing a clockwise circle on my desk with my finger. Now I can make her change after a few seconds. |
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10/12/2007 05:56:25 PM · #88 |
Originally posted by BeeCee:
Nothing I do can make her spin counterclockwise. None of the tips suggested, nothing I thought of myself. Not even a twitch, a hesitation, a jiggle, nothing. |
Ditto!
I even keep stopping her (with the mouse) and sort of moving myself counterclockwise, as if I could then drag her along when I start her up again.
LOL..... I'm glad nobody is watching me! |
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10/12/2007 08:10:13 PM · #89 |
Interesting , now it's the evening and I'm having an easier time making it switch directions without even blocking the top part, by just refocusing the eyes and using peripheral vision.
Message edited by author 2007-10-12 20:12:41. |
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10/12/2007 08:14:07 PM · #90 |
Try thinking of her extended arm as being "in front, behind"
Message edited by author 2007-10-12 20:14:29.
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10/12/2007 11:21:53 PM · #91 |
Wait, she's moving?!?
:P
what really bent my noodle is that when spinning CW her right leg is out and when spinning CCW her left leg is out. Crazy. |
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10/12/2007 11:48:30 PM · #92 |
This was doing the rounds at my work.
In my team (business analysts) we had a mix but there was a tendency to go clockwise. A couple of them could change direction at will. I couldn't switch at will but she would sometimes switch direction if I blinked for a fraction of a second - about 75% of the time I saw her going clockwise.
My manager tried putting it on both her monitors (side-by-side) and could see one going in each direction at the same time, which freaked her out.
Most of our programmers saw her going anti-clockwise only and couldn't switch her - which is unsurprising given the explanation.
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10/13/2007 12:33:41 AM · #93 |
Originally posted by paddles:
Most of our programmers saw her going anti-clockwise only and couldn't switch her - which is unsurprising given the explanation. |
Dunno, been a programmer for a long time and I am buggered if I can make her (why do we all say her instead of it by the way?) turn anything but clockwise. My maths/computing majors and hating touchie/feelie english don't match the descriptions very well :-) |
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10/13/2007 12:49:36 AM · #94 |
Here is my tip for learning to switch her spin. I actually don't really think the test has much to do with right brain and left brain, but is an interesting illusion.
Watch her spin for a while. Then, say out loud "front" or "back" depending on whether her foot is spinning in front of her or behind her. Now, at the moment her foot blends with her other leg by crossing over it repeat the last word. So instead of saying "front, back, front, back" say "front, back, front, front".
This helped me greatly at first and now I'm at the point where I can easily make her do figure eights with half her spin clockwise and half her spin counterclockwise. I think the verbal reinforcement helps trick your brain into reversing her movement. |
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10/13/2007 01:03:01 AM · #95 |
| Mine's just cartwheeled.... to the right. |
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10/13/2007 01:21:59 AM · #96 |
For me she spins mostly clockwise, but I can make her switch by doing simple sums in my head...2+2, 4+4. 8+8, and so on.
Then I stop and visualize something with shape and colour, and she goes clockwise again.
I'm not kidding. This works every time for me. Try it and let us know if it works.
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10/13/2007 01:36:43 AM · #97 |
At first only clockwise no matter what, but after DrAchoo's suggestion of verbalizing I could see her moving CCW.
This is so interesting!!
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10/13/2007 02:05:24 AM · #98 |
I see it both directions. If I follow the shadow of the foot for a few seconds, it turns clockwise, then look away, and back and it turns CCW. Very interesting observation piece.
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10/13/2007 02:14:45 AM · #99 |
Originally posted by Jimbo_for_life:
lets make this interesting for everyone, lets put to girls together, when i did it i could get them to spin opposite directions. try covering up one eye and as her legs come together switch to the other, see if she switches |
If I click the scroll button and stop the extended leg on the right, then rotation will seem clockwise when I release it. If I stop the extended leg on the left, then the rotation will seem CCW when it resumes.
This is the wierdest thing. It's all about how we see things.
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10/13/2007 07:48:47 AM · #100 |
| it is an illusion. you mind play trick on you just like in a derest without water. For me it just clockwise her left leg is straight up and down. |
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