Left, right brain. Heh! don't look now I switched [Archive]

Chuck Bao

10/12/2007, 03:06 PM

Some of you science brainiacs help me out here.

I'm trying to figure out why I can only see this girl spinning clockwise and later I can only see her spinning counter-clockwise. But, only if I look away and then look back.

Okay, the link 'bout left and right braininess:

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22535838-5012895,00.html

Which direction is she spinning?

http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5687820,00.gif

How 'bout now?
http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5687820,00.gif

frankensooner

10/12/2007, 03:10 PM

looks counterclockwise to me.

dang now it is clockwise. weird

soonerloyal

10/12/2007, 03:13 PM

Guess I'm weird. I can only see clockwise.

Wonder if my being legally blind in one eye messes up my perception? It sure does my parallel parking...
:P

Frozen Sooner

10/12/2007, 03:14 PM

Clockwise. I hope that means I'm a serial killer.

Edit: nice boobies.

Frozen Sooner

10/12/2007, 03:16 PM

Wonder if my being female messes up my perception? It sure does my parallel parking...
:P

Don't know about the first, but probably on the second...

:pop:

OUHOMER

10/12/2007, 03:55 PM

Both are clockwise to me.....

mikeelikee

10/12/2007, 03:56 PM

Clockwise, unless you're in the Southern Hemisphere. :D

OUstud

10/12/2007, 04:01 PM

I saw both...

Widescreen

10/12/2007, 04:10 PM

OK, if you watch her feet, you can force yourself to switch back and forth between. Cool.

Frozen Sooner

10/12/2007, 04:11 PM

I totally can't see it any other way but clockwise.

proud gonzo

10/12/2007, 04:19 PM

I totally can't see it any other way but clockwise.same here.

Partial Qualifier

10/12/2007, 04:21 PM

OK, if you watch her feet, you can force yourself to switch back and forth between. Cool.

That's how I got it to switch directions too.

Somebody saw this on mental floss . .. :)

BlondeSoonerGirl

10/12/2007, 04:21 PM

Look at the foot that she not standing on. When it's at 6:00 switch your mind's eye real quick and pretend it's at 12:00 and going the other way.

Freaky.

BlondeSoonerGirl

10/12/2007, 04:22 PM

Yeah. What they said.

Frozen Sooner

10/12/2007, 04:23 PM

Look at the foot that she not standing on. When it's at 6:00 switch your mind's eye real quick and pretend it's at 12:00 and going the other way.

Freaky.

Doesn't work for me.

Weird, because most people I know would categorize me as a left-brainer.

Widescreen

10/12/2007, 04:30 PM

Doesn't work for me.

Weird, because most people I know would categorize me as a no-brainer.
Fixed!

;)

Widescreen

10/12/2007, 04:32 PM

Actually, I find it easier to look at the foot she's standing on. If you think of it graphically, it's just a black blob extending to the right and then the left. I find it pretty easy now to switch when looking at it that way.

Frozen Sooner

10/12/2007, 04:33 PM

Fixed!

;)

Totally.

I mean, I go up to women in a bar and they're always like "Go home with him? Hells yeah, that's a no-brainer!"

I got nothin'.

proud gonzo

10/12/2007, 04:41 PM

yeah, I keep trying to make it switch and it won't. Which is really ****ing me off because stuff like this usually switches very easily for me.

silverwheels

10/12/2007, 04:45 PM

If I look directly at it, she turns clockwise. If I can only see it out of the corner of my eye, she's going counter-clock. Weird.

HskrGrl

10/12/2007, 04:58 PM

I tried staring at it, I tried looking away and looking back, I tried your guys' suggestions and I could only see her spinning counter clockwise. I'm way more of a right brain person, though. When I was reading the article on the link I saw her spinning clockwise for about 5 seconds but that was it.

TexasSooner01

10/12/2007, 04:58 PM

Tried it several times...clockwise everytime.

Hamhock

10/12/2007, 05:02 PM

i love nipples.

Daddo

10/12/2007, 05:41 PM

Here's what I see, if the left arm is wide she is turning counter clock-wise and if I see her right arm wide, then she is turning clock-wise.

StoopTroup

10/12/2007, 07:10 PM

silhouettes suc

Howzit

10/12/2007, 07:13 PM

Edit: nice boobies.
I bet they're not real.

Always.

Howzit

10/12/2007, 07:15 PM

I can see some camel toe for, like, 2 npt (nanoseconds per turnaround).

sooner_born_1960

10/12/2007, 07:42 PM

If I blink fast enough for the strobe effect to get her going the other way, then open stop blinking she will still be going that way. If that made any sense.

Ike

10/12/2007, 07:46 PM

clockwise. I don't think it can be any other way.

teh bewbs go from being on the right, to facing me, to being on the left. can only be clockwise.

OzarkSooner

10/12/2007, 08:51 PM

Wow, that is WEIRD because the other day when I was trying to make her switch to counter-clockwise I couldn't do it. NOW it switches right in the middle of everything while I'm just looking at it. If it does NOT switch I can scroll to the other picture and it's going the other way....strange.

OCUDad

10/12/2007, 08:53 PM

She goes both ways. Kinda like Howzit.

ChickSoonerFan

10/12/2007, 10:04 PM

I could only see it clockwise, no matter what I did. Then, I turned my laptop upside down and slowly turned it back and could see her going counter clockwise, but it is hard for me to keep her that way. She usually goes back clockwise as soon as she hits the middle.

Freaky.

Jerk

10/12/2007, 10:09 PM

I could stare at this for hours

ChickSoonerFan

10/12/2007, 10:11 PM

My six year old daughter says she was going counter clockwise, when I told her I saw her going the other way, she looked and said she did too...then wait...no the other way...no wait, now the other way. She sees it both ways.

And no, she did not actually say "counter clock wise", she showed me by twirling her finger which way she saw it.

Still freaky.

GottaHavePride

10/12/2007, 11:56 PM

I can only see it clockwise. And it's totally because of the angles of the limbs. Going clockwise it's constructed properly as though the person is actually spining like a cancer and the limbs are trailing slightly behind the rotation of the body. If it were to be going counterclockwise the limbs would actually be ahead of the rotation of the body.

So basically, I can't see it going counterclockwise because the physics implied by the angles of the limbs don't work if the rotation is counterclockwise. The physics and body mechanics ONLY work out if the rotation is clockwise.

It's also a matter of viewpoint. If you were standing in front of a dancer who was spinning like that, the extended foot would appear lower on the near side of her body, and higher on the far side. Again, that implies clockwise rotation.

josh09

10/13/2007, 12:21 AM

Both look clockwise to me.

josh09

10/13/2007, 12:25 AM

Whooooaaaa.

Now the top one i can see both, but the bottom is still just clockwise to me.

Mixer!

10/13/2007, 01:01 AM

Elton John - Tiny Dancer

Ike

10/13/2007, 01:09 AM

so the funny thing is, my wife sees only counter clockwise. and the link says that shes s'posed to be left brained and I'm sposed to be right brained....

yet she's the artist, and I'm the scientist...which by the descriptions there, are completely what we shouldn't be.

OUHOMER

10/13/2007, 07:02 AM

If I look directly at it, she turns clockwise. If I can only see it out of the corner of my eye, she's going counter-clock. Weird.

Ok, that worked for me. i turned my head and caught it out of the corner of my eye and it started going counter clockwise. As i turn my head for straight on shot it stayed counter clockwise until i blinked than back to clockwise.

weird

OUHOMER

10/13/2007, 07:06 AM

Widescreen

10/13/2007, 11:36 AM