odintheking
Lighting the way...
That's trippy, man! I can usually see counterclockwise, but if I focus she can go the other way.
which way is the chick spinnin'?
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Thorvald of Lym
A Little Sketchy
Whoa, that's freaky...
I saw this EXACT SAME experiment earlier today on a different site!
I saw this EXACT SAME experiment earlier today on a different site!
dcbandicoot
the true corporate champ
Clockwise, right-handed. Can't see counter at all.
Edit: Now I can change it at will.
Edit: Now I can change it at will.
G-Force Junkie
Old Vulcan Guy
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Yeah, I just got to the point where I can almost change it at will, but now my head hurts too much to keep up with it.
Counterclockwise
Greeneyedzombie
King
When I first looked, anti-clockwise, but now she is going crazy alternating directions.
Bamspeedy
CheeseBob
Always clock-wise. Sometimes the animation stutters, but she still ends up going clock-wise.
Mise
isle of lucy
That's really weird! If I do that, and I look a 10 cm or so to the right, she goes clockwise, but then when I look at her directly again, she's going anti-clockwise. BUT! If I gradually move my eyes towards here, like 2 cm at a time, from 10cm right of her to looking at her, she stays clockwise! How cool.
I think this explains it best. Follow the colours to see where the information goes into the brain. Keep in mind that the information is integrated after it gets to the back. By looking to the right of the dancer, you're putting the information into the far-left visual field, crossing first into the right-brain.
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Mise
isle of lucy
So wait, I'm right handed, which means my right eye should also be the dominant eye, right? So why am I apparently dominant with my left eye (i.e. seeing it anti-clockwise)?
EDIT: No wait... again. (I keep making people wait, I should stop saying that.) Doesn't that mean that if you close your left eye, she'll go anti-clockwise, and if you close your right eye, she'll go clockwise?
Also I realise I read the above picture wrong, and I am indeed dominant with my right eye.
EDIT: No wait... again. (I keep making people wait, I should stop saying that.) Doesn't that mean that if you close your left eye, she'll go anti-clockwise, and if you close your right eye, she'll go clockwise?
Also I realise I read the above picture wrong, and I am indeed dominant with my right eye.
dcbandicoot
the true corporate champ
No, I can legitamitely see it go both ways. Took awhile. Try reversing the foot in your mind, that is, you see it spin back (arcing away from you) than near than far than near.. try reversing it so it goes near when it should go far and vice versa, than look.
It's easy once you get it.
I don't buy the left-brain right-brain stuff though.
Yep, you're reading the above picture wrong. There is no difference between your specific eyes - there's a difference between your eyefields. The 'left' eyefield is everything left to the center of what you're looking at. So, for example, my avatar is in your left eyefield while you're reading this text.
While you are reading this text, my avatar's light is entering your eyeball and settling on the right side of your retina. This information is being sent to your right-brain. My avatar's light is hitting both your eyes, both your retinas, and is being sent from both eyes into the right brain.
In the diagram above, half the information 'crosses over' from each eye. I can't see colour, so I'll have a bit of problem explaining, but notice how the information that hits the right-side of each retina goes to the right side of the brain?
While you are reading this text, my avatar's light is entering your eyeball and settling on the right side of your retina. This information is being sent to your right-brain. My avatar's light is hitting both your eyes, both your retinas, and is being sent from both eyes into the right brain.
In the diagram above, half the information 'crosses over' from each eye. I can't see colour, so I'll have a bit of problem explaining, but notice how the information that hits the right-side of each retina goes to the right side of the brain?
Quote moved to bottom on purpose.
Mise
isle of lucy
Aha, this makes sense now. So it's not which eye itself, but which side of the eye the light hits, that determines which side of the brain it goes to (and therefore which way the girl spins). Got it! Thanks!
Gogf
Indescribable
Clockwise. I couldn't figure out how to make it counter-clockwise at first, but with a little practice I can do it without too much difficulty by looking at the shadow of the feet.
On Yer Flour
Prince
And I likewise.
DBear
unbeliever
CLockwise all the time. Right handed.
Bast
Protector of Cats
I can manipulate it now. For me, it appears that she's always facing AWAY from me and going half way to left and then turning around the other way.
Interesting that always her outer limb is the one that's sticking out.
Interesting that always her outer limb is the one that's sticking out.
I first saw it counter-clockwise and saw it that way for a very long time, but now I can make it switch (with some difficulty), and it's fairly balanced between clockwise and counter-clockwise.
Nope, this is definitely not a hoax, since I had several people in my room watching it and, at the same time, some of us saw it one way and some the other way.
