[Merged]illusion: which way is this chick spinning?

bpesta22

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This is kinda driving me crazy as clearly this broad is spinning clockwise but everyone else swears she's going CC.

Supposedly, seeing it go clockwise means you're right brained, and CC means left brained.

Anyone have any info on this / how it works?

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I just now got it to switch. If you close your right eye, and go left of the monitor, looking through the side of your left eye it should go CC; the opposite seems to make it go C.

Seems like it does get at laterality....interesting.
 
I can't make it go clockwise, CC with one eye opened or closed or whatever. How do I make it go clockwise?
 
Pretty cool.

Most of the time I see her going C. Then suddenly she will switch to CC.

Went to the link articulett gave, and started seeing them both going C. Then they changed to top one going CC and bottom going C. Then they both went CC.

I think this confirms what has oft been rumored, my brain is screwed up.:boggled:

ETA: Is there some way to turn up the lights on her? :D
 
Starts as CC, but once I got her going C after few flickerings back and forth she goes C. No idea how to go back to CC.
 
I can't get CC at all. But then, I can't do those picture-in-picture things either.
 
Pest-- The relevant research on this usually uses rotating necker cubes; that is probably your best search term (no, I have not looked). I was a research subject for a friend who did his doctoral research on rotating (and deformed) necker cubes. No idea what he found.

Incidentally (I know how you feel about intelligence tests), an early item on intelligence tests was whether or not one had the ability to switch the rotation of a necker cube (specifically, how often you could switch rotations in a given amount of time).
 
I watch her legs as they overlap, it makes it really easy to switch.

I have no idea which way I "naturally" see her. And I doubt it is related to brain sides.

Though in Psych I took a test that said I used both sides equally.

Clearly, I am schizophrenic.
 
I can't see it.

*stares at it*

Nope, I still can't make out a sailboat!
 
If you scroll the screen down so you can just see the foot and the shadow of the foot... that's the only way I could make it "change direction".
 
Mercutio said:
Pest-- The relevant research on this usually uses rotating necker cubes; that is probably your best search term (no, I have not looked). I was a research subject for a friend who did his doctoral research on rotating (and deformed) necker cubes. No idea what he found.

Incidentally (I know how you feel about intelligence tests), an early item on intelligence tests was whether or not one had the ability to switch the rotation of a necker cube (specifically, how often you could switch rotations in a given amount of time).
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The necker cube test is here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/neckercube/
 
I can make her change back and forth by just flicking my eyes away. :eek:

I can do that with photos of the moon too. One second it's all craters, then
it's all weird lumps.
 
Merc, thanks!

I used to teach perception back in the day, not because I was an expert but because no one else was more qualified (I was the tallest midget teacher).

The illusion chapter was always pretty interesting-- I remember reading that caffeine increases the reversal time on the necker cube illusion. This dancing lady, though, made me think of the figure/ground stuff.

I wonder if I just made up the left/right eye stare trick and used confirmation bias to prove it, or if reversing the dancer really depends on which part of which eye focuses on it.
 
bpesta22 said:
I wonder if I just made up the left/right eye stare trick and used confirmation bias to prove it, or if reversing the dancer really depends on which part of which eye focuses on it.
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I can't make her switch any other way. But then, I only tried that cause you mentioned it, so that's not proof of anything.
 
I can only see her going clockwise. I can't even grasp how it would be possible to interpret what I'm seeing as counter-clockwise motion.

When she's facing away from us, she's sweeping from left to right. When she's oriented towards us, her features are sweeping from right to left. I don't see any possibility of ambiguity, but obviously I'm missing something.

Really interesting.
 
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