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- Clockwise
- Anti-clockwise
- OMG! It keeps changing

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clockwise, i can't even make myself see it go anticlockwise.

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last edited by ara at 09:57:33 10/Oct/07

My lead at work showed me this the other day, it's pretty cool. It took me a minute or so, but I managed to see it going both ways.

clockwise, i can't even make myself see go anticlockwise.

Ditto

yeah all i'm seeing is clockwise...

Holy s*** yeah I just got it the other way - had to stare at it for ages and eventually happened when in looked down at the feet and lost focus slightly.

Anticlockwise, i can't even make myself see it go clockwise.

Anticlockwise, i can't even make myself see go clockwise.

ah oh LOL after billy's tip I can now make myself see it clockwise also. This is like one of those staring at 3D picture....

heh cool. i saw it as anticlockwise at first but it changes if i scroll away then go back.

heh, i can make the shadow go anticlockwise, but not the figure.

LOL now ALL I could see if clockwise...man this is messing with my brainzzz...

hahahahahaha, me too. I can't get it to go back after looking at the feet.

nope still can't get it to change

It was only clockwise for me...

Now it's stuck anticlockwise after I did the feet thing.

Stare at the body for a bit then concentrate on the legs./feet

Feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetttt!

just stare at the boobs... soon you no longer care which way they are spinning :D

If I look directly at it it's always going clockwise. It will go anticlockwise if I look slightly to the side and out of focus but I can't get it to stay that way. Weird

Cool, so it's actually possible to see it spinning anti-clockwise at first. 4 people I asked all had difficulty seeing it anything but clockwise, while the article says the majority should see it spinning anti-clockwise.

Still a majority right-sided softies though... :P

peripheral vision (looking way to the side) and watching the leg go around is the only way I can get it to spin anti-clockwise.. and as soon as I look directly at the dancer again, she spins the other way. Frustrating and weird.

This is while at the same time my girlfriend's staring at the dancer making her change direction every few seconds.

I wonder if it really does have any deep correlation to brain function.... freaky nonetheless.

heh cool. i saw it as anticlockwise at first but it changes if i scroll away then go back.

Yeah, I had the same thing, but the opposite way around. I saw it clockwise and couldn't see it as anything else. Then I scrolled down a bit and when I scrolled back up it was going anti-clockwise!

Edit: Ok now its going clockwise again and I can't get it to go anti-clockwise anymore. This is madness!

last edited by Khel at 10:33:38 10/Oct/07

I can only see clockwise....

same

Watch the hands, it spins clock wise for a while then the gif switches it to spinning to anticlockwise.. I think.. it could be my mind playing tricks

An easy way to see the opposite direction is to block off the whole girl with your hands, and just look at her foot. Try to imagine her foot spinning the other way!!

I only see clockwise ... and the description for people seeing clockwise is the complete opposite to a description of me.

its quite possible that the gif is just on a timer to spin each way for a certain amount of time
I was able to make it go both ways, but it always looked as though it stopped and started again - leading me to believe its a HOAX ON THE INTERNETS

I only see clockwise ... and the description for people seeing clockwise is the complete opposite to a description of me.

same

Yeah teq, If i had image ready or some other graphic program i'd have a look frame by frame... I think its nothing but a ruse though

I just gimp'd it up and it doesn't look terribly flash, from what I can tell it does go right - left - right

i call hoax

LOL definitely a hoax!

This is while at the same time my girlfriend's staring at the dancer making her change direction every few seconds.

Now might be a good time to find out what else she bulls***s about :P

Well I pulled it apart using animation shop.

34 frames. No ruse. 1-34 repeat indefinately.
Strangely if I slow the animation down I can see it go anti-clockwise.
http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/5937/slowwedpq9.gif








http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/4757/slowestmv9.gif










http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/4331/fasterir5.gif

props to animationshop ;D

mmm spinnin'

http://dem0n.qgl.org/images/mgifz/syncf_400.gif

I use my left brain, im a maths and science person, but i have sat and done everything you guys have said and not once have i seen it go anticlockwise.

i'm with deathwalker

first it was clock-wise, now its stuck on anti-clockwise and i can't change it =(

try focusing on the shadow her foot makes if it's stuck on clockwise, that's what did it for me

FYI it's a hoax.

thanks taggs, i focused on the foot and it worked within about 30 secs.

Woo, got 2 of obes' pics going in opposite directions after about 5 minutes of trying.

It goes clockwise and anticlockwise for me, depending on when I look at it. If I sit down and try and clear my mind and not think anything I can get it to switch directions. It takes me from 1-10 seconds to switch it when I'm not trying too hard.

RSOTBFTMFW!

last edited by d0mino at 13:34:52 10/Oct/07

If you watch when the nipples appear / disappear, the animation can only be going clockwise.

What if someone reverses the gif, will it still work? :)

At work, staring at shadow nipples. Busy day.

Reversed ...
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/5742/reversedir7.gif

Looking at it normally it tends to go anti clockwise. Can switch it by looking at the foot to get it going anti clockwise, the shadow on the ground to make it go clockwise. Can make it switch on every rotation that way so not a trick with the gif.

Reversed ...

ah.. yeh that's interesting. Now I can't get it to go clockwise.

I wonder if it's reversed for the one or two people who saw the original going anti clockwise, too.

I'm pretty satisfied that it's pretty meaningless... cool visual trick though.

Reversed ...

I still see clockwise?
Forwards and backwards next to each other...
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/5742/reversedir7.gifhttp://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5687820,00.gif

last edited by Bah at 15:47:08 10/Oct/07

oh man.. now they're affecting eachother... both are changing to clockwise, then both are changing to anti-clockwise, depending on which one I look at.. haha

edit: ok, that was when they were placed vertically... could be interesting to move the frames so that the mirrored animation starts at frame 17

last edited by Farseeker at 15:44:08 10/Oct/07

if you see it go anti-clockwise, you are like Bilo.

I can see it both ways, and change it easily.


The descriptions in the link are BS though.

Hahah, anti, i was starting to think it was a hoax, until Karl said he saw it the other way.

Wowee.

I have seen this before and never once seen it go anticlock... until the normal and reversed ones were stuck side by side.

The one on the left suddenly changed direction after about 5 sec.

Just scrolled back up and it was clockwise for about 2 sec then popped back to anti. The right one won't seem to change no matter what I do though.


Sneaky f***er on the right just changed on me finally!

last edited by rubba-chikin at 16:40:22 10/Oct/07

i call bulls*** - also i see it going clockwise but if i concentrate i can see it the other way.. however the foot on the floor is wrong for anticlockwise

Foot looks fine for me in either direction.

Forget about looking at the feet. It's all about the shadow. If when you first look you focus on the shadow you see anti clockwise. If you only look at the chick and ignore the shadow you see clockwise. I can see it both ways by doing this really quickly.

clockwise! I tried to see it anticlockwise but half of the animation didnt make sense anti-clockwise, i dont know how it just didnt.

i can see nipple! lock/nuke

anti. but if i think about it i can make it go clock

i think if u see it anyway other then clockwise, you should accept the fact you are brain damaged and kill yourself now. (or go watch resident evil) both will cause a similar effect.

The real question is, which way would it spin if it was on a treadmill?

you should accept the fact you are brain damaged and kill yourself now.

hahaha

its going clockwise you tards :P

like some people have already discovered, you can't actually tell which way it's spinning - if you think you can, you are mistaken

hot

I can make it do like Half a turn Anti-CLockwise if I focus on the Gap bwtween her Foot and her Shadow...

But as soon as the other leg sweeps around it's back to clockwise.

Also, I now have a Headache :(

http://wisebytes.net/illusions/cube.gif

all i can get is anti clockwise, how the HELL do you see clockwise??? its plainly going anti-clock!

ahh my brain!

lol now i have it clockwise, and cant get it back

thats lame and doesn't work for me phooks all i see is the blue one going over the outside of the box, which is firmly set to one layout in my mind

I had that, until I realized what the image was trying to do. Now I can switch between layouts.

That article is rubbish, I remember looking at these things in uni. That left/right list is useless if you're left handed, and even for right handers its much closer to "use the other side of the brain, man" pop psychology crap than scientific fact (unless you've had your corpus callosum removed).

The animation is basically a very fancy Necker cube (Phooks's picture). One interesting thing I remember that came out of studies done by a researcher at UQ was that with normal people the images consistently flip every few minutes (sometimes a bit longer), but people with bipolar disorder would get stuck with one interpretation for several hours or even days. The theory being that having one side dominant for too long would lead to mania or depression depending on which side, but normally the switches occur often enough that there isn't a problem.

i found looking at the shadow help me make it go the other way... i could only see it go clockwise...

Thats was so lame and easy - you can see it change.

To the people saying its a hoax or assume its the animation order in the gif changing... it's not.
There are 34 frames that go 1-34 Indefinately. It at no point reverses or "ping pongs".

Its an optical illusion. Your brain is doing the trickery not the gif.

clockwise ftw

force to turn other way by

starting at the ass look down towards the toes and work back up to the ass

nah, all that did was give me a raging hardon.

oh great, reading about your raging hardon gave me a raging hardon

i like to get it ice skating backwards... clockwise turn, then counter turn, then clockwise

no full spin either way

In a World without Leaders, who would start all the Wars?

THE AMERICANS


when i first opened the thread it went anti for a few seconds.
now its fixed on clockwise.

hmm i can make it switch between at a whim :)

spatial awareness/manipulation ftw

^^ insatiable need to feel special ftl