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[lo5an]

This is an interesting illusiony thing from my friends list. My roommates and I stared at it for awhile last night. It broke us.

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[lbangs]

I'm trying and trying, and I can't get her to go counter-clockwise!

Urgh!

Okay, I just did. If I focus on her foot and block out the rest of her with my hand, I can force myself to see it reverse. When I do, I remove my hand to see her body follow along.

Cool! Thanks For posting!

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

[auranja]

I can't get her to go counter-clockwise either!

[nxtwothou]

First off, who uses the phrase "anti-clockwise", when did counter-clockwise go out of fashion?

And, no matter what I try, I can't see it going clockwise. Maybe its because when I wire up our handpieces in our drills I have to always test it and then wire it up to be clockwise(the handpiece wiring isn't color coded for polarity), so I'm used to watching movement rather than shape. I mean, I can see the position her body is in makes her seem like she should be going clockwise, but, ugh, brainy-no-workie.

[lo5an]

See if you can force yourself to see the other leg as the right leg and vice versa.

[manamakeri]

Same thing for me. She started out going clockwise. When I looked back she was counter-clockwise. Now it keeps changing.

[subgirl]

okay, after watching it for awhile, just not paying attention to direction....

she changes her direction. there's a visible jump in the animation and it switches.

maybe it's just me, but it seems like crap.

[lo5an]

I'm pretty unconvinced about the left-brain-right-brain stuff. The illusion is legit, though. I suspected hinkery, but I've watched it with other people who were seeing the opposite rotation at the same time.

Also, I've looked at the thing frame by frame. There is a big jump, but its not really tied to the illusion, which I think centers on the ambiguity of which leg is the right leg and which leg is the left leg. The right-vs-left of the leg on the ground switches when the rotation switches.

[subgirl]

I don't have any animation software around and didn't want to poke very hard at it, but yeah. It seems wonky still.

I think my perception of the direction is impacted by the hitch in the animation.

Strange anyway.

[subgirl]

I found that my perception switched with any stalls in animation, but I watched it with someone else, too...and he never saw the image switch over. We decided to say out loud when it switched, and his switched once, and my changed all over the place...and not always with glitches.

[nxtwothou]

I finally saw it. My gf had it up on the 'puter which was a good 10ft away from where I was sitting and from that distance it looked clockwise. Up close, just can't do it.

[lo5an]

I definitely see predominately clockwise rotation, but I've stared at it enough to see some of each, at this point.