Are you right brained or left brained?

[Fatal Rose]

I think... It's hard to explain.

[Krosigrim]

Well then... That is exactly what I mean... you felt it too. Excellent.

[Alpha]

Well then... That is exactly what I mean... you felt it too. Excellent.

At first I saw it clockwise, no matter what. I even stepped back a few feet and still saw it moving clockwise. Then I looked at the shadow of her feet as you said and she started moving counter clockwise. Then I couldn't move it back to going clockwise. Then I figured out how to change it back to clockwise. I spinned my index finger (edit: makesure you focus on your index finger with the girl twirling in the background) clockwise in front of my monitor and she started moving clockwise again (it works both ways).

 

This stuff is amazing! I wonder what each frame in the GIF shows? Maybe someone can load it up in a GIF animation software.

 

Also, what bothers me the most is what if everyone sees things differently? I mean, not just with this twirling girl animation -- how about all animations? What if all we see animations differently and don't even realize it? We see special effects everyday in TV commercials with text and images flipping in different directions -- but PERHAPS we're all seeing something else?

 

IMO, this is some crazy shiet.

[L.S.D]

You all read too much into it. A very clever optical illusion, nothing more.

[Agozer]

damn, now I have to pretty much reverse my earlier answer. Counter-clockwise now.

[JKKDARK]

Right-brained

[BlackKnight]

This is how I think it works;

 

There is no 3d / z-axis depth to it. It is just a number of animation frames in one direction, and then the same frames reversed in the other. Then it repeats.

 

Which way you see it rotating is based on which motion you see first- if you see the left-to-right animation first, the brain connects the frames and assumes the movement is going in that direction and when it reverses direction your mind rationalises this as a rotation around a central axis. Basically it takes the first direction of motion as happening in the foreground, and the second as happening in the background just so the animation complies with our perception of 3d space. If you see left-to-right first, that means you'll see a counter-clockwise rotation. If you see right-to-left first, you'll think its going clockwise.

 

Might just be rambling, but it would explain why, when you look away or obstruct the motion for a while, you can see the opposite direction when you look back. Incidentally I don't think it has much to do with which side of the brain is more active.

[Krosigrim]

I agree... How can something like this, denote left or right superiority? I believe that when you view it, you perception instantly tells you if her leg is actually foreground or background. I don't see how left/right can assume this factor. What I do know, is if I change the way I see it on command, I get a strange... feeling in my brain piece. Thats the only thing I'm sure of.

[fumanchu]

left or right dont know!!!!

[Ahmad89]

Yeah, I saw it going both ways as well.

 

I'm not entirely sure about which side it is, but I do know that if you draw something while looking at it is one side and if you're like Bob Ross, and paint/ draw something from your imagination, then it's the other side.

 

 

What if you're ambidextrous though? Do you use both sides of your brain at perhaps an equal level? Because I know that the human nervous system wiring is weird, and all criss cross, and left side controls right and visa-versa..... and does that make you smarter if you can use both left and right sides of your body to an adequate level?

That doesnt give you super human powers. It just means your better at stuff (not necessarily everything) then others, or autisim. Some of the stuff are accosiated with it. Which means if your good at art then your left (or right, which ever it is) brained.

[ken_cinder]

Being ambidextrous doesn't really have any bearing on your methods/strengths of logic.

 

I am completely ambidextrous, I can write with both hands, play baseball....hockey....football both ways, nothing I know of really that I can't do left or right handed.

I saw this both ways easily, and I SUCK FIERCE ASS at art, but I excel at math and anything hands on that ISN'T art.

[Wizard]

I saw it both ways and I'm for the most part ambidexterious. But I know for a fact that I'm left side dominate, as I do everything BUT write with my left hand.

[Robert]

The only way I can see it turn anticlockwise is to scroll the page up so I can only see below her knees.

 

Otherwise its always clockwise. By comparing the way her ass and upper legs are positioned, its obvious it can only be clockwise.

 

Am I missing something? Perhaps it's because of my ability to see through illusions.

Edited December 1, 2007 by Robert

[ken_cinder]

I can only see it turning clockwise, does it mean I'm missing something?

 

The left side of your brain! Zombies ate it! Braaaaiiinzzzz!

[esoteric]

I can switch it back and forth on command (or by following Gamecop's method).

 

Someone should really take the image apart and see how it works.