Apparently I am left brained, hmmm thats interesting. I wonder does this have anything to do with what your dominant hand is? I happen to also be left handed, which (or so I'm told) means I use the right hand side of my brain, so there's obviously some conflicting information.
thehungryone
· 2 years ago
are you sure the image isn't just changing it's spin after so many rotations? sometimes it's spins ccw, sometimes it spins cw but i can't choose. where's the proof!?!?
Patrick O'Doherty
· 2 years ago
woops it turns out it was going clockwise at first for me, but I am able to make it switch at will, which is pretty nifty. I must have some brain power
Vladimir Cezar
· 2 years ago
Wow, I can make it turn to any direction! Does this make me a freak-bothsided-brained'?
Alex
· 2 years ago
I can switch back and forth... does that make me full brained?
Andre
· 2 years ago
OK initially I'm left-brained, but by concentrating enough I was able to make her turn clockwise. That probably explains why I greatly enjoy artsy things like photography even though I am also a sicentist.
Andre
· 2 years ago
Concentrate on her lower foot, then it's much easier to make her turn the other way.
William Hartz
· 2 years ago
I can see it both ways. It's a bit weird though. I have to focus real hard to get it to switch and then it just kinds "pops" and changes up.
rmaspero
· 2 years ago
now it spins the other way odd
rmaspero
· 2 years ago
Ok i have watched it for long enough and i say she changes its a very long animated gif
Ken Incher
· 2 years ago
It all depends on how you define clockwise. If you look at her from the top, she is turning clockwise. If you view her from the bottom, she is turning counter clockwise.
This may be more of a test of how you view women than if you are right or left brained ;-0
Jim C.
· 2 years ago
I've also managed to get it to switch both ways. Fascinating stuff.
By the way, for those suspecting it's just "a really long animated GIF".... I opened up the file in Fireworks, and it consists of only 34 frames, set to repeat indefinitely. Once the dancer completes one rotation, you've viewed the entire animation.
Whether she spins left or right is all in your head.
Yazan Abbas
· 2 years ago
I opened up the gif and there are 34 frames in this gif .. all of them define one full rotation ... so it is up to your brain
at first I was way way right brained and it frustrated me that i couldnt see it with my left brain till i figured out the trick
what i did was focus on just her legs for a few seconds and when she is spinning CW.. and her leg thats off the ground is in front of the pivot ... i would tell myself that is behind
and when the leg is behind the pivot leg ... and i would tell my brain it is in front .. kept saying that for a few seconds till i could see it spinning CCW
it would help if you scroll down to hide her upper body and just focus on the legs
Leo
· 2 years ago
Dang. Now I've got her going counter-clockwise and I can't get her going the OTHER way!
Tom Reeves
· 2 years ago
She's going clockwise. But I think I'm dyslexic.
Joe D.
· 2 years ago
Wow, Yazan, awesome comment. I couldn't get her to go anyother direction than clockwise till I read your post. Guess thats cheating though, left to my own I just saw clockwise.
Wayne Dixon
· 2 years ago
I'm not sure what it means if you can choose. But I can choose at will...
Pink
· 2 years ago
I can see both directions, when I first saw her she was spinning CCW, but if I look away for a couple of seconds, she is spinning CW...does this make me mid-brained?
The Pawnbroker
· 2 years ago
When I first saw it, it she was going ccw. I was able to make her switch directions after a little work. Now I can make her go either way. With a little practice, I can get her to turn 1/2 revolution and then back again 1/2 revolution the other way (either facing me or facing away from me).
Techdribble
· 2 years ago
Just remember this was published on a southern hemisphere website so everything here spins the other way. So people in the northern hemisphere the results are really the opposite of the what you actually see :)
meteorplum
· 2 years ago
She started clockwise, the flipped when I scrolled the image down to read the next post in the feed. I can't "make" her change directions just by looking, but if I turn my head up side down and slightly defocus, she'll change directions when facing directly towards/away from me. Weirdly cool.
jccalhoun
· 2 years ago
this was on boingboing a while back as the optical illusion of seeming to switch direction http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/23/twirling-d... I think it is like those "3d" pictures that were all the rage a decade ago : it is all a big trick and people just say they can see it when it doesn't really exist!
mpm
· 2 years ago
wow...at first it was defiantly counter-clockwise and i couldn't figure out how anyone would see otherwise. then after starring at her foot, it switched. now i can't make it go back!
Kevin Krewell
· 2 years ago
I just like watching her.....she's nice :-)
Bunga
· 2 years ago
I think this was on diggnation a couple episodes ago. Yeah I looked at the 34 pictures as well and the bottom foot pretty much messes with your head and you can trick yourself and get her to spin either direction.
I think the 3d pics (stereograms) were a rage almost 20 years ago.
Rodrigo Santos
· 2 years ago
Yeah, jccalhoun is right, this is just an optical illusion, nothing to do with which side your brain works.
Jan
· 2 years ago
Whoa. Seriously. It seems my brain is ambidextrous (ambilobed?) because I can see her going clockwise and then counterclockwise, but I can't change it up at will. I look at it - clockwise. OK. Then I scroll on the page and come back to it and ... counterclockwise.
Very cool. Thanks for posting it.
John Proffitt
· 2 years ago
What does it mean if you can see her nipples?
Nick
· 2 years ago
Yep, it you focus on the legs you can make her change direction at will. :)
Aidan
· 2 years ago
I was looking at it, and firt saw it counterclockwise. Then, for about five seconds, it didn't look like it was turning (as if it was flat--you know what I mean). Then, it looked as if going clockwise. I closed my eyes, and when I re-opened them, it looked as if going clockwise again.
That's amazing!
Your Friendly Neighborhood Phi
· 2 years ago
I can't change it at will while looking at the whole photo, but if I only look at the feet, I can change the direction. Cool find!
Daniel
· 2 years ago
Try looking away and using your peripheral vision. Time the rotations and try to imagine how it will look like if it were rotating in the direction you what. Then try to ease back looking at it.
Chris (Amateur Traveler podcas
· 2 years ago
wow, definitely counter-clockwise for me, interesting
Michael
· 2 years ago
I tried for 20 minutes to see if I can get it to turn counter-clockwise for me but I guess I'm too right brained.
Danny
· 2 years ago
Both for me. Look away and tell yourself its going one way and it spins that way - for me anyway.
Dave from So Cal
· 2 years ago
I'm glad I came to the site rather than just viewing on my iPhone (it didn't move at all on the iPhone). However I too started seeing it spinning clockwise... then, as I started to scroll down the page it changed and turned counter clockwise....
Ed
· 2 years ago
I seem to be able to switch at will, sometimes causing her to rotateonce each direction, but I agree the feet/legs are the key to doing that. Very Cool!
Suzie
· 2 years ago
For me, she spins one way for awhile and then slows down and starts spinning the other way! What the heck does that mean, lol?! ;-)
Ryan
· 2 years ago
I saw it clockwise originally and I believe clockwise is the natural motion. Her spin looks unnatural counterclockwise. On top of all of this, the shadow at the bottom of the page indicates that her foot is in the foreground. If the light is coming from behind her, the shadow would show her leg as well. If the light was in front of her, the shadow would appear behind her.
Flawed!
Take a look.
Paul
· 2 years ago
While tabbing back and forth from The Herald and your post she goes left and right.........mmmm.
Nicholas
· 2 years ago
All I see is nipples. . .
Jon
· 2 years ago
She turns both ways at random, i saw this pic last night and noticed that if you watch it the whole animation changes its not just you "Thinking" that shes changing direction
Anthony
· 2 years ago
Help! She started clock-wise for me, then i changed it to counter clock-wise and she won't go back. I don't want to be stuck left-brain for the rest of my life.
Ikon
· 2 years ago
As usual, I can't make up my mind :)
At first she was spinning clockwise, but I concentrated for a bit and I managed to see her going counter clockwise. Does this mean I have good spatial judgement but can't figure out where I am?
TTK
· 2 years ago
I can't make it go counter-clockwise! I think I'm concentrating too hard.
BadTengu
· 2 years ago
I can now get to do somersaults. Does that count for something? Heh .. heh ..
Andre
· 2 years ago
This is SO COOL! Up to now, the first time I would watch she would always turn counter clockwise. But, this time she started by going clockwise most probably because of that half bottle of wine currently melting my neurons.
Brian Megilligan
· 2 years ago
I am astounded that anyone can see her going clockwise. I can only see counter-clockwise motion and no matter how hard I try, I cannot see clockwise. That is so weird, and a little alarming to me that so many can see both and try as I might, I can only see one! I must be Spock.
sputnikzygote
· 2 years ago
@andre ...funny you wrote that.
i saw this at work today and was nothing but right brained. but apparently the beers have made my logic side kick in a bit because i can flip it either way now.
hmmm... i wonder... do companies still frown upon the mind limbering liquid lunches?
Nick
· 2 years ago
I don't see how "left" or "right"-brainness would have anything to do with the result you get. (Not to mention that left-brainness and right-brainness don't actually have anything to do with being arty or sciency.) There may be some bias that is a result of being right or left-handed, and thus your brain automatically interprets an ambiguous spinning object to be spinning in one direction, but that's it.
Try this: close your eyes and imagine what it would look like to have her rotate the other way. Open your eyes, and voila, she appears to be spinning in that direction. The ease that this can be done suggests that there is no deep relationship between what you see and something about your mind.
M Loeb
· 2 years ago
I've had both but can't control it at all.
Jonathan Tad Ketchen
· 2 years ago
I'm ambidextrous-brained, because sometimes she's going clockwise and other times she's going counterclockwise.
Outside of this example, clockwise and counterclockwise are a matter of perspective. Say an object rotates constantly in the same direction: if you are on one side of it, it will appear to be spinning clockwise; and if you are on the other side of it, it will appear to be spinning counterclockwise. If you are looking at an analogue watch, the hands turn clockwise, but if you were able to position yourself beneath the hands and looking up at them, they would be turning counterclockwise. Their direction never changed, but your perspective did.
sputnikzygote
· 2 years ago
@nick
i think the idea is what it looks like at first glance... your initial reaction.
wait. did you just say that there's no relationship between what your eyes see and how your brain interprets that data? and that there's no correlation of sight, handedness or natural prefs for painter vs accountant?
i kid, i kid... :)
(and obviously need to defrag my grey to get at all those orphaned bits of descartes)
Leonard
· 2 years ago
Anyone want to explain how this actually works? I'm not convinced this really works...
Daniel
· 2 years ago
When I initially saw her, she was spinning counter-clockwise. But once I noticed the small shadow from her outstretched foot, I haven't been able to get her to do anything but spin clockwise.
Story of my life with women, Leo. Really.
xxmissbirdyxx
· 2 years ago
after watching this, i have come to the conclusion that it is A) an optical illusion or B) it changes.
Everytime i scroll she changes direction and there is no such thing as left or right brained! Honestly!
Left Brain
Logical Sequential Rational Analytical Objective Looks at parts
Right Brain
Random Intuitive Holistic Synthesizing Subjective Looks at wholes
Most individuals have a distinct preference for one of these styles of thinking. Some, however, are more whole-brained and equally adept at both modes. In general, schools tend to favor left-brain modes of thinking, while downplaying the right-brain ones. Left-brain scholastic subjects focus on logical thinking, analysis, and accuracy. Right-brained subjects, on the other hand, focus on aesthetics, feeling, and creativity.
XPMaster
· 2 years ago
I am pretty left-brained, like math, science, etc. and I could only get her to spin clockwise, primarilly because you can see the shadows.
ekeby
· 2 years ago
I'm incredulous that anyone would only see this going one way. It reminds me of Mr. Pitt and the Magic Eye pictures . . .
Edwin
· 2 years ago
Haha. When I first saw this, she was turning CCW. Looking at it for a little bit, I now see her turning CW.
William Russo
· 2 years ago
I see her upside down. going up and down. what kind of brain do I have?
SingeX
· 2 years ago
The first time I looked I could only see her going clockwise. After a while she switched directions. Then it just seemed to be random.
It took me a little while to figure out that to get here to switch you have to use the other side of your brain. For instance if you want see her going counter-clockwise and use your left brain, start doing math in your head. If you want to start seeing her go clockwise and use your right brain, picture a color wheel or start making a drawing in your head. This works for me everytime. It is no longer random and you can control it.
Guest
· 2 years ago
I have seen her dance both clockwise and counterclockwise. Both sides of my brain seem to be working in tandem.
ed
· 2 years ago
Nice...
She changes at will for me...
It's definitely an optical illusion - the black 2-dimensional figure "spinning" in front of the gray fade background gives it the illusion of rotation - your mind decides which way she spins based on what it is most comfortable understanding. Way cool!
Juan
· 2 years ago
I am able to change directions reading and looking to the picture at the same time using my peripheral upper vision.
Another mystery of the brain
hepta
· 2 years ago
She spins both directions for me, the trick is to focus on the nipples. There was a discussion about it on twitter.
Krunk
· 2 years ago
I've added some extra lines to help with the depth perception:
All Comments
This may be more of a test of how you view women than if you are right or left brained ;-0
By the way, for those suspecting it's just "a really long animated GIF".... I opened up the file in Fireworks, and it consists of only 34 frames, set to repeat indefinitely. Once the dancer completes one rotation, you've viewed the entire animation.
Whether she spins left or right is all in your head.
at first I was way way right brained and it frustrated me that i couldnt see it with my left brain till i figured out the trick
what i did was focus on just her legs for a few seconds and when she is spinning CW.. and her leg thats off the ground is in front of the pivot ... i would tell myself that is behind
and when the leg is behind the pivot leg ... and i would tell my brain it is in front .. kept saying that for a few seconds till i could see it spinning CCW
it would help if you scroll down to hide her upper body and just focus on the legs
I think it is like those "3d" pictures that were all the rage a decade ago : it is all a big trick and people just say they can see it when it doesn't really exist!
I think the 3d pics (stereograms) were a rage almost 20 years ago.
Very cool. Thanks for posting it.
That's amazing!
Flawed!
Take a look.
At first she was spinning clockwise, but I concentrated for a bit and I managed to see her going counter clockwise. Does this mean I have good spatial judgement but can't figure out where I am?
i saw this at work today and was nothing but right brained. but apparently the beers have made my logic side kick in a bit because i can flip it either way now.
hmmm... i wonder... do companies still frown upon the mind limbering liquid lunches?
Try this: close your eyes and imagine what it would look like to have her rotate the other way. Open your eyes, and voila, she appears to be spinning in that direction. The ease that this can be done suggests that there is no deep relationship between what you see and something about your mind.
Outside of this example, clockwise and counterclockwise are a matter of perspective. Say an object rotates constantly in the same direction: if you are on one side of it, it will appear to be spinning clockwise; and if you are on the other side of it, it will appear to be spinning counterclockwise. If you are looking at an analogue watch, the hands turn clockwise, but if you were able to position yourself beneath the hands and looking up at them, they would be turning counterclockwise. Their direction never changed, but your perspective did.
i think the idea is what it looks like at first glance... your initial reaction.
wait. did you just say that there's no relationship between what your eyes see and how your brain interprets that data? and that there's no correlation of sight, handedness or natural prefs for painter vs accountant?
i kid, i kid... :)
(and obviously need to defrag my grey to get at all those orphaned bits of descartes)
Story of my life with women, Leo. Really.
Everytime i scroll she changes direction and there is no such thing as left or right brained! Honestly!
Left Brain
Logical
Sequential
Rational
Analytical
Objective
Looks at parts
Right Brain
Random
Intuitive
Holistic
Synthesizing
Subjective
Looks at wholes
Most individuals have a distinct preference for one of these styles of thinking. Some, however, are more whole-brained and equally adept at both modes. In general, schools tend to favor left-brain modes of thinking, while downplaying the right-brain ones. Left-brain scholastic subjects focus on logical thinking, analysis, and accuracy. Right-brained subjects, on the other hand, focus on aesthetics, feeling, and creativity.
what kind of brain do I have?
It took me a little while to figure out that to get here to switch you have to use the other side of your brain. For instance if you want see her going counter-clockwise and use your left brain, start doing math in your head. If you want to start seeing her go clockwise and use your right brain, picture a color wheel or start making a drawing in your head. This works for me everytime. It is no longer random and you can control it.
She changes at will for me...
It's definitely an optical illusion - the black 2-dimensional figure "spinning" in front of the gray fade background gives it the illusion of rotation - your mind decides which way she spins based on what it is most comfortable understanding. Way cool!
Another mystery of the brain
http://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2007/10/17/spinning-dancer/
http://gallery.krunk4ever.com/v/Animated_Gifs/all-spinning-dancer.gif.html