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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.
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).
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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