Left Brain, Right Brain, Dancing Brain

[mona1610]

Ok people tell me if the babe behind the cut moves clockwise or anti-clockwise for you.

Comments

[minn]

I keep seeing her clockwise.

[appughar]

Mostly anticlockwise for me. Had to really distract myself to see her turning clockwise.

But this is a classic example of Multistable Perception". The basic idea behind since this is a 2D projection with very little shading or colour information, there is insufficient information for deciphering what she is actually doing. This incomplete information is filled in by our brain. Now, just imagine or try doing the circular turn akin to the babe yourself. Most probably you will find yourself turning in the same direction as that of what you perceived as the dominant turning direction of the girl. I being right-handed/legged preferred the anti-clockwise movement.

I remember I was doing a similar experiment with a data set of a can rotating. The wordings in the can were Chinese! I found my algorithm spitting out conjugate answers to what I was expecting. I spend atleast couple of days fighting with it before I finally realised my folly.

[suku]

Clockwise!!!! Someone stop her!!!! :P :D

[arucard2]

Anti-clock -- Clock -- Anti-clock.

[inspirethoughts]

Hmm...It goes anti-clock, then clock and then anti-clock only...

is it because we are wired to see that way?? or analyse things tht we see in a different way?? probably!!