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[desh]

The be-all and end-all of the spinning dancer meme is here. I bet all of you will be able to "switch" between clockwise and counterclockwise, if not at will then at least easier than before, after seeing this.

The three eighteen remaining people here who have no idea what I'm talking about should go here first.

Comments

[smarriveurr.livejournal.com]

Three, eh?

Quota 33.33% filled.

[erin.livejournal.com]

66.66%. My eyes feel all spinny now.

[smarriveurr.livejournal.com]

Uh-oh... there's 1.0003... people left to find.

[smarriveurr.livejournal.com]

See, and now, after the fact, he changes the statistics, hoping no one will be the wiser.

We're on to you, desh!

[smarriveurr.livejournal.com]

Hrm. I wonder what it mans if the dancer changes directions every third time you look at the image.

[desh]

That seems to be the normal case. For me, I COULD NOT make her go counterclockwise until I was told a trick, shortly before finding the first link above.

I think my experience proves the left-brain-right-brain explanation hooey, by the way. I'm the most left-brained person in the world.

[smarriveurr.livejournal.com]

Whereas I read the scanty article and my immediate question was "Wait, do they mean clockwise looking down from above or up from below?"

Which might reasonably prime the logic/maths center a bit more.

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

Whereas I was like, "wait, which way is clockwise again?"

[smarriveurr.livejournal.com]

Hehe, another casualty of the Digital Age...

[tobeginagain.livejournal.com]

no. i am. i can't make it work. even with your link. she's still spinning counterclockwise no matter how hard i try, just with weird white lines in the way.

maybe something's wrong with me.

[smarriveurr.livejournal.com]

Hrm, now I wonder what it means if you misspell the word "means" while discussing dancer rotational vectors...

[desh]

Now I wonder if YOU'RE A COMMENT SPAMMER.

Thank you for site!

[smarriveurr.livejournal.com]

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[marnanel.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

It just gives me a headache even more though :/

[krisispm.livejournal.com]

If i stare intently at the counter-clockwise one and then switch to the combined I can see it for a few seconds, but I even see clockwise on the counter one half the time. I've never been able to switch views on the combined.

[metalphoenix.livejournal.com]

I seriously can't see the counterclockwise movement in the original. I can only tell when it's got the lines to make you think the legs have switched. *so confused* But you can see the foot, at the bottom, and it's moving clockwise even in the other one I JUST DON'T GET IT AHH.

[desh]

That was me for awhile until I SAW THE LIGHT.

The trick (which only works for me sometimes) is to put my hand over the original so I can only see the part on the very right side where the arm sometimes swings by. It's important that I not be able to see any more of her. Then, if and when I can convince myself that the arm is going counterclockwise, I take my hand away. If it works, it works until I blink.

[rivka-m.livejournal.com]

The three images were especially weird when I got the side ones to spin in opposite directions (that took a while, since I missed the suggestion lines. And once I had the that, the middle one started swinging back and forth instead of rotating. weird.

Clockwise is still my dominant direction, although I can switch kinda at will. I'm not sure how, but it involves relaxing my eyes and letting it become 2D, I think. Your covering-most-of-it trick didn't work for me.

I still insist I'm only a partial left brainer at best.

[myq.livejournal.com]

My brain!!!

[rahaeli.livejournal.com]

I still insist this is a bad test, because I am the most right-brained person in the fucking universe and she flips directions every time I blink. (Like, literally. It's distressing.)

[desh]

Yeah, I think the brain half tie-in is bunk, but it's still fun.

[rahaeli.livejournal.com]

Yes. Cognitive science is a hobby of mine, man. I love all the dissection of perception shit.

[desh]

And it just occured to me: You're crazy right-brained and she keeps flipping directions for you. I'm crazy left-brained and for the longest time I couldn't get her to switch at all, no matter how much I analyzed it. Doesn't that actually make sense, more so than the supplied explanation?

[rahaeli.livejournal.com]

...Huh. Yeah, I wonder if there is some sort of correlation there?

I also wonder if there's anything to the fact that I first saw her after spending the entire weekend a). playing around with money and odds and patterns in Vegas, while b). reading (voraciously and entirely) books on quantum physics.

[rue101.livejournal.com]

um... i'm not sure i buy it. she's switching direction plenty, but i'm too skeptical to think it's not part of the animation. either way, she's hot and making me dizzy =P