The Right Brain vs Left Brain Test

[Maikel Steneker]

For me it's clockwise too. I was able to make it counter clockwise, but only for a few seconds.

I do it by looking at her lowest foot. Then I imagine that it's turning the other way. It worked twice for me

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

At first, I saw her spinning clockwise. Then, after refreshing the page, she was spinning anti-clockwise o.0

Cool...

EDIT: She went back to spnning clockwise and I can't get her to do it the other way...

Darn. I'll keep trying though

 

[jimmy j]

I must be a freak coz I see both. If I look away from the screen for a few seconds it'll sometimes switch rotation.

 

[madmk]

You can see her nipples :E

I got the imaginative/creative side of the brain though, the other day I found it impossible to get it to rotate the other way, but now It kinda does.

 

[hankchill]

This is some freaky stuff, It's like I can change her direction at my command... my brain controls this chick

 

[Destructobot]

the thing is, the image isn't ambiguous enough to animate it without any bias.
it needs to be an object like a pair of scissors or something, you can clearly see this woman leaning into a clockwise spin

She's leaning into it the same way in either direction, because it's basically a mirror image sort of thing.

Anyway, whether she's going clockwise or counter clockwise really depends on what direction you look from: down from above, or up from below.

 

[ediblebird]

i can switch the direction by focusing on the extended leg.

And when i listen to music it switches back and forth. crazy

Anyway, whether she's going clockwise or counter clockwise really depends on what direction you look from: down from above, or up from below.

Not true. its a flat image, not a 3D object that you can physically move around, so direction shouldn't affect it at all (I might be wrong)

 

[RayorDragonFall]

I'm able to change at will, but I voted clockwise cos I first saw her clockwise.
I'm training to be a musician, that might be it

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Hmm, My answer was if you are looking from above she is counter-clockwise. But from below, clockwise...not sure which brain side this makes me? maybe front?

 

[Destructobot]

Anyway, whether she's going clockwise or counter clockwise really depends on what direction you look from: down from above, or up from below.

Not true. its a flat image, not a 3D object that you can physically move around, so direction shouldn't affect it at all (I might be wrong)

It's a 2 dimentional representation of a 3 dimentional object, just like every "3D" image you see on a monitor or TV screen. If a real 3D woman was spinning in one direction or the other, it would be clockwise when viewed from one direction (along the axis around which she was spinning) and counter clockwise when viewed from the other direction.

My point however, was simply to conjure the image of viewing a naked spinning woman from below, because that's how my mind works: poorly.

 

[Veho]

The point is that the whole animation is symmetrical, when it shouldn't be. If we rotate, say, a woman, and look at a limb, such as a leg, then the leg should be slightly smaller when it's pointed away from us, and slightly larger when it's extended towards us, due to perspective. Closer objects seem bigger. In this animation, there is no perspective, the extended arm and leg are the same size when the lady is (supposedly) turned towards us as they are when she's (seemingly) turned away, so our brain automatically "fills in the gaps" and jumps to a conclusion, and the conclusion, they tell us, depends on the part of the brain we're using at the time.


That aside...

Whoah, spinning naked chick!
*stares*

 

[Costello]

wow, very weird.
I thought I saw it rotate counter clockwise at first, so I looked down to read the replies, looked back at the picture and it was rotating clockwise!

now no matter how I look at it, how deep, how long, etc. I still see it rotate clockwise!
I hate this feeling, it's like you don't even know yourself! heh

 

[jumpman17]

I don't get it. It's clearly rotating clockwise.

 

[Destructobot]

I don't get it. It's clearly rotating clockwise.

It rotates in either direction depending on how you perceive it. Veho explained it quite well.

p.s. For anyone that can't get it to rotate in the other direction, focus on the foot of the shadow (try not to look at the main figure at all), and force yourself to see just that foot rotate in the other direction. Once you get the foot going the other way, the main figure should also be going the other way.

 

[sixb0nes]

I must be some sort of outlier, since I can't for the life of me get my brain to see it clockwise. It is clearly counter-clockwise. Hrm,

 

[OSW]

i'm sure it has some credibibility. but it was easy enough to trick myself into thinking it's going the other way with about 20 seconds of concentration.

 

[jumpman17]

I've been staring at this thing for like, 5 minutes straight, it only goes clockwise. I don't see how it could possibly go the other way .

 

[Spikey]

I've been staring at this thing for like, 5 minutes straight, it only goes clockwise. I don't see how it could possibly go the other way .

The trick that got me to change it's rotation at will is that I focus my view on the reflection on the leg that isn't spinning around the other, making sure that I'm not focusing on the girl at all. Then I repeatedly talk myself into the fact that the left/right leg(depends on which way you see her spinning on which leg it is) is actually the other. After I do that I look at the girl and she's spinning the other way. Took quite a lot of tries before I could do it at will, and took trial and error to get it working the first time, but it works(at least for me). Try it and let me know how that goes.

 

[Hiratai]

I've finally gotten it to turn twice in 1 minute. Dude, this is awesome. It's like watching porn in shadows.

 

[Tylon]

Aaarh!! This shit is freaking me out!