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11 October 2007

Clockwise or counter-clockwise? Survey says:[More:]Clockwise, for me. I have to focus really hard to see counter-clockwise.
Clockwise. I can't see anti-clockwise (as we say in the UK) at all.
posted by essexjan 11 October | 13:39
I'm totally left-brained, but she's turning clockwise. So there goes their theory.
posted by mudpuppie 11 October | 13:42
I've found the easiest way to facilitate switching is to hold up your index finger just beneath the picture and spin it in the direction you wish the dancer to spin. You have to get it to sync so that the dancer's outstretched foot is above your index finger as you spin it.

Works like a charm.

It took me quite a while to make any sense of the lists they had for right- and left-brained people. They make sense if viewed side by side but are pretty confusing otherwise (e.g., knows object name vs knows object function).
posted by CitrusFreak12 11 October | 13:45
What mudpuppie said.

I like that they gave her nipples, though.
posted by mike9322 11 October | 13:46
Clockwise, but I can make her go counter-clockwise pretty easily.

I like how they call her a "dancer". An exotic dancer, I guess.
posted by iconomy 11 October | 13:48
Clockwise, but I can make her go-go counter-clockwise too.
posted by rainbaby 11 October | 13:52
Clockwise, and I couldn't get a hint of counterclockwise even when I covered one eye or the other.
posted by mischief 11 October | 13:58
I just heard about this last night! Clockwise for me, and it took a good two minutes of CF's trick with the finger to be able to see counter-clockwise.
posted by Specklet 11 October | 14:00
Clockwise. Left-Handed when writing but right handed for everything else fwiw.

I think when I first looked at it I saw it going the other way and then there was a pop-up ad which killed it for me.

I'm curious to hear what "handed" others are...
posted by Lola_G 11 October | 14:10
Also, focus for a moment on the shadow at the bottom and then move your eyes up. That's what I did to get the counter-clockwise.
posted by Lola_G 11 October | 14:13
What am I - some kind of freak? I see anti-clockwise!
posted by TheDonF 11 October | 14:28
I can see it both ways. I just don't get how it works... It's an optical illusion or something, right? I stared so long I'm dizzy.
posted by youngergirl44 11 October | 14:28
Lola_G : right-handed for writing and mouse-ing, left-handed for everything else. Left-footed too (left foot always goes first)
posted by essexjan 11 October | 14:30
Seems like her foot is sweeping 12,3,6,9 and all is well for clockwise. If I just blink then look at her hip, she usually seems to be going counterclockwise, down to that same foot. It's slightly harder to flip her back, I look away and start with the feet again.

I actually have big trouble telling my left from my right, does that count for anything?
posted by rainbaby 11 October | 14:33
I could only see clockwise until, like Lola, I looked at the shadow.
posted by jrossi4r 11 October | 14:40
Clockwise, until I blink, or switching back and forth at will. Left-handed.

And thanks! This should help illustrate a point about silhouettes and spatial orientation I've been trying to make to my partner.

Fine, it's a discussion about whether Crow T. Robot is facing forward or backward in the movie theater. I say it's unknowable from the silhouette, as his projected image and or shadow would be the same either way, and The Fella insists that Crow is facing the camera, based on the curve of his head.

What?
posted by Elsa 11 October | 14:43
Clockwise, and oddly hot for an animated image.
posted by tr33hggr 11 October | 14:44
She goes back and forth for me depending on what part of the image I concentrate on.

Hermisphericity aside, it's a great illusion, really convincing either way. I'm particularly in awe of how the lead leg changes when your understanding changes. I thought at first "Well, her body has to follow the momentum created by her extended arm and leg - the other way it would look unnatural --" but if you watch her change it actually looks like she's leading from the other side.
posted by Miko 11 October | 14:45
It bothers me that her left foot (or is it her right?) is flexed. I want her to be on tippytoe.
posted by Specklet 11 October | 14:47
counter.

it took several tries to get clockwise.
posted by crush-onastick 11 October | 14:47
What mischief said.
posted by arse_hat 11 October | 14:50
Clockwise, though I saw counter- when I first looked at it, and I can see counter- if I do CitrusFreak's index finger trick.

Left-handed, and most folks who know me would probably think of me as left-brained.
posted by box 11 October | 14:52
clockwise and can't see counterclockwise no matter what I do. Right handed, but most of the right-brained descriptions are more applicable to me than the left-brained ones.
posted by WolfDaddy 11 October | 15:06
Clockwise, until I looked at the shadow. I'm both left and right brained, though, depending on context.
posted by matildaben 11 October | 15:15
I absolutely cannot understand how she could be going counter-clockwise. I just don't see it.

I'll go try some more.
posted by triggerfinger 11 October | 15:18
I SEE IT!

I had to look at my computer from the side though.
posted by triggerfinger 11 October | 15:22
What works for me is not looking at the site for a few minutes. Then, before looking at the image, I imagine it going counter-clockwise (and I make little counter-clockwise circles with my finger). When it loads -- bam! -- she's going counter-clockwise.

I have to wait a few minutes and look at something else before she goes clockwise again, though.
posted by mudpuppie 11 October | 15:38
Clockwise -- and damn whoever put in that popup ad.
posted by PaxDigita 11 October | 15:40
Clockwise, and I can't get counter at all. But then, I've never seen those Magic Eye things either, and frankly, I don't believe in them and I'm not sure I believe y'all are seeing her counter clockwise either. It's all a trick, isn't it? Isn't it?
posted by mygothlaundry 11 October | 15:49
Clockwise. I could get counter clockwise when I worked at it, though.
posted by Triode 11 October | 16:01
I just see a high-beam nipple.
posted by plinth 11 October | 16:03
Clockwise, but I easily switch to seeing it widdershins.
posted by deborah 11 October | 17:22
MGL, I was talking to a friend last night about this, and he said that some of his coworkers absolutely refused to belive that the image could be seen to rotate both clockwise and counterclockwise.
posted by Specklet 11 October | 17:37
Well, that's odd. I clicked through again, and now I absolutely cannot see her rotating counter-clockwise. When I first viewed the image, I got a bit woozy because she appeared to be rotating one way, then the other.
posted by Elsa 11 October | 17:57
After using CitrusFreak's finger trick, I can make her switch just through concentration.
posted by mullacc 11 October | 19:01
another way to make it switch is to cover up all over her body her hands except for her bottom foot. and then wait for it to change directions and remove your hands.
posted by bigmusic 11 October | 19:18
Pervert.
posted by mudpuppie 11 October | 19:27
I just look to the bottom right corner of the image and within a second or two she switches directions.
posted by deborah 12 October | 00:15
My boss has put on an eighties radio station. || I'm obsessed with Rita Pavone.

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