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Thunndarr

Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:12 am Post subject: |
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| Watch her outer foot carefully and it's clear she isn't even making full revolutions. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Location: Easy Street.
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:35 am Post subject: |
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| Clockwise, only clockwise, and don't see how it can appear otherwise. Maybe she'll change later. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:25 am Post subject: |
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| I've been getting more than half clockwise but a good bit of the other way too. I get the feeling it's when words are going strong in the head that she goes clockwise for sure. Then thoughts drift to more image/feeling related stuff (like remembering the knockout I saw earlier) as I look away, and then she spins the other way. The brain is fun! |
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cruisemonkey

Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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I can make her apparent rotation switch between clockwise and counter clockwise by looking at the shadow and considering her angle of inclination toward me.
Freeky... I love illusions. |
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tzechuk

Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| The article says most people would see her spinning counter clockwise, I wonder what it means that we're all saying the opposite at first anyway |
Right. My thought exactly.
I see her moving anti-clockwise. |
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Kimchi Cowboy

Joined: 17 Sep 2006
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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For the longest time I could only see it as clockwise. Then I scrolled down to see only the feet and shadow, and could - with great effort - "make her" go counter-clockwise.
From there, I started pausing it and stop-starting it to make her change directions. Still can't do it "on the fly" so to speak.
However, my work computer is somewhat slower than my home setup, so her spin is rather jerky here. Now, when I watch her, she's doing non-stop figure 8's; whenever her leg comes around to the "front", it suddenly flips to the back and comes around the other side again!
My head hurts.... |
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itaewonguy

Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:08 am Post subject: |
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http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php?p=27#more-27
Here's a cogent explanation from a Yale neurologist.
In short, it's nothing about right/left brain. It just depends on what visual cues your use the moment you look at it. This is why some people can make it move the other way. They just look at different visual cues. |
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re:cursive
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:10 am Post subject: |
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So I tried this yesterday and intially saw her spinning clockwise but within 30 seconds or so figured out that I could perceive her turning either way on command, by flicking some switch in my brain.
I just had a look again and saw her moving clockwise but this time I can't get her to turn the other way. This afternoon I have a weird headache. I wonder if that has something to do with it? |
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JongnoGuru

Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:13 am Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php?p=27#more-27
Here's a cogent explanation from a Yale neurologist.
In short, it's nothing about right/left brain. It just depends on what visual cues your use the moment you look at it. This is why some people can make it move the other way. They just look at different visual cues. |
Right, nothing to do with right brain/left brain.
As one commenter on that site notes, it's more to do with whether you're a boobs man or a butt man. And I'm clearly both. |
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eamo

Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:14 am Post subject: |
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| Clockwise only. You're mental if you see counter-clockwise. See a doctor. |
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JongnoGuru

Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:15 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| Clockwise only. You're mental if you see counter-clockwise. See a doctor. |
Yeah, see my earlier posts. I was once a cranky non-believer, too.  |
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:21 am Post subject: |
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I can change between both without too much difficulty. Looking at the feet as they drop to the floor seems to do it. I'm pretty much ambidextrous, with hands and feet. But I can't write with my feet. I am a div!
And another thing they're fake. No two ways about it. No sagging there. No pencils and cigarettes.
Is the off shoot of this one that although feeling slightly nauseous you start to feel randy. With Nausea comes randiness. Or is that another study? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:42 am Post subject: |
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If you examine the first frame of the gif, it's ambiguous. Is that a woman's front? Or is that a woman's back? Whatever your brain happens to decide, that's the way she spins.
What's wild is get it going in two or more image viewers that can display animated gifs. They'll change direction rapidly. |
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peppermint

Joined: 13 May 2003 Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 1:07 am Post subject: |
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| so, essentially, the ability to make her change directions is a measure of how easily distracted you are? |
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