Simple question you think? Just vote in the poll and you might find yourself surprised.


Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on May 9 2010, 12:46 pm by NudeRaider.

Yea, the old right brain / left brain test. Clockwise for me.

Uh damn. Making posts invisible before you voted doesn't seem to work.
I'll give an explanation later.

Oh and JaFF this does not relate to the left / right part of the brain thing.

I said counter just to have someone on counter. I think their was supposed to be an emphasis on how she could have been facing behind her our towards us before she moves but I'm really sure that would really point to which way should be spinning. Get to the point already it feels like guess and check.

I don't like this D:

Don't fake the stats please.

I'm glad not everyone knows it already.
Also there's no guessing involved. There's also no right or wrong. Just answer according to your perception.
I will reveal what's behind this when enough people have voted.

Well maybe you will when you know what this is about.

Clockwise?

EDIT: I'm trying to see it to make it seem like shes spinning counter clockwise, but I can't.
EDIT EDIT: Nvm, I see it both ways now.

I was trying to make it seem counter-clockwise but I couldn't. I then loaded the page with the image again, revealing its upper part first and then the whole thing; that helped me see it counter-clockwise for a couple of seconds until it became clockwise again.

Counter clockwise at first, but I managed to switch it to clockwise after two minutes of staring.

Clockwise at first, but I could switch it after twenty seconds.

Clockwise at first but looking at the shadow at the bottom switches it for me.

Counter-clockwise at first and then it went to clockwise... and then back again... swapping every now and then...

Once I saw it go left half a rotation, then right half a rotation, and left half a rotation, it was weird.

Not sure which to actually vote since I seem to see it both fairly equally.

Edit: Ah-ha! I figured out how to make myself see it do the half-rotation thing consistently... really weird.

Clockwise at first. I scrolled to show only the shadow, closed my eyes for ten seconds, and the shadow was counter. Scrolled up; whole figure was spinnin' counter. Now I can't change it back D:

It seemed like one time it actually changed directions, like loaded a different series of images, but that could just be my dial-up.

I think it goes both ways for me. I cannot vote there is no option for me.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on May 9 2010, 5:19 pm by MasterJohnny.

Just checked back -- clockwise!

For all those who can't vote because they see both: Vote what you saw when you looked at it the first time.
I didn't want to include that into the poll because it would have taken the fun for those people who only later realized that they can see it both ways.

Now on to how / why it works:
Our brain is trained to interpret everything 3D, unfortunately this animation is 2D and thus has no perspective. If it were a real girl you would (subconsciously) tell in which direction it is spinning when a leg (or anything else) goes into the background it'll become a little smaller from our viewpoint. But since this clue doesn't exist in the 2D picture the brain just randomly decides a direction to make sense of the whole.

Here's the [source] where you can find this trick explained in more detail and also a few other interesting brain tricks. (Including the left/right part of the brain thing where you have to spin a leg and an arm of the same side of the body, which JaFF thought about at first)

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on May 9 2010, 7:51 pm by NudeRaider.

Counter clockwise, but when I reloaded page she went clockwise instead. Pretty tricky this woman is.

I saw this as an ad on a website, haha, I enjoyed a bit and I am a fan of such things.

Sometimes it will appear to me that her top half is moving one way (Torso+arms+head) while her bottom half (legs+feet) are going the opposite way. What does that mean?

I can see it both ways but clockwise is easier.