Right- or Left-Brain? Visual Test

[Tarryk]

http://delicategeniusblog.com/?p=552

Very interesting. I'm really iffy on it. If I focus, I can make it switch direction at will, but sometimes it will lock in one direction and I have to close my eyes for a second to get it going back the other way. Neither way seems dominant, ees weird.

[Vallikat]

For me it is clockwise and I could not manage to change that no matter how I tried. So the comments saying they could get it going back and forth have me a little freaked out.

[Bluerush2]

It keeps switching directions, how freaky

[Tarryk]

brain forcing if it gets stuck in one direction:

Look at the picture and get it in your head that she's drawing a circle with her pointed toe. You see that circle as an ellipse because it's tilted towards you or away from you.

If she's spinning clockwise, the top of the circle is away from you.

If counter-clockwise, the top of the circle is towards you.

Scroll down so all you can see is her feet. Change direction with that in mind, and once you've got it, scroll back up slowly while keeping that direction.

(the reason for scrolling down is because there isn't a perfect WHOLE frame in the animation to "switch" directions, if you can switch directions while looking it's because you aren't paying attention to at least one part of the frame that would make such a switch impossible, but if you can only see just the feet -- or the head -- then switching becomes much easier)

[Vallikat]

Ok, I got it to switch. I had to move my face very close to my screen and then I could switch it.

[Dithyramb]

That's pretty cool, I see it clockwise by default (I already know I'm very right brained) but it's kinda trippy to make it flip rotations at will ;D

What I noticed is when I started looking for patterns in it, it would flip anticlockwise, when I focused more on the artistic side of it, it would go back to clockwise.

[Eleanore69]

lol first I saw it anti clockwise and after 2 min I saw it clockwise, I was wondering if the gif pict was changing after a moment but nope.

I need to know what happend if I look at this pict when drunk

[Innari]

I can switch it back and forth within a couple revolutions, but just glancing at it, it spins clockwise for me.

I knew I was rightbrained. Left handed person and all

[Stiofain]

Clockwise, couple of jerks backwards but it won't keep going that way long enough to make a revolution.

[Shigy]

It goes clockwise for me...but when I was reading the text around it went anti clockwise...wierd but cool.

[Firia]

Yaknow? I must be so left brained that my right brain has completely ceased functioning. I can't for the life of me see how it could even be concieved to float counter-clockwise. Can no one tell the right shoulder/hips/leg apart from the left? So, it befuddles me when people say they can cause it to switch at will. I know it's a silhouette but... there are still detailed facts of anatamy at work!

Reading some of the known details of the right/left brain functions, it makes sense to me, and just empasises me being so gorram leftied.

[Kyrros]

I'm with Firia on this. It's definitely clockwise for me and I can't get it to switch at all. Likely because I can't override those little details in my brain. o.o I've looked at all the planes of motion on the dancer and they're all individually telling me that she's going clockwise. Shoulders, head, legs, hips, etc.

On a fun note, I saved the gif locally and opened it up in an image editor and ran it backwards. Then she went counter-clockwise and I couldn't get it to go clockwise.

[Gridfan]

At first it went clockwise for me (which seems to be my "default),
then however it went anti-clockwise.

Now I'm able to almost constantly get her to "wobble" left-right (which is what she does really, it's just a guess, I haven't check the actual graphic frames to confirm this)

One clue (and which makes it much easier to make er wobble or at the very least change direction is to look at the grey shadow under her foot.

Focus only on the shadow, when it moves to the side and is just about to wobble back, glance up at the figure, when the figure is fully to the left or right.

i.e. When the shadow is at 3 o clock or 9 o clock, look at the shadow, when the shadow is at 9 o clock or 3 o clock look at the figure.
Get the timing right and she'll appear to "wobble" from left to right.

Very neat really, whoever create that graphics must have spent some time to make it feel right.

[Leo Es]

Hmmm, odd. All I see are bewbies and nipples. What bit of anatomy does that make me think with?

[Aakasha]

Hmmm, odd. All I see are bewbies and nipples. What bit of anatomy does that make me think with?

I noticed the nipples too, mmm nipples. But I was able to make it go both ways, which was pretty kewl.

[Vallikat]

With some practice I was able to get the wobble thing to happen.

[Leo Es]

Watch the lower foot and notice the big toe, it always appears on the inside. Then consider the image wobbles a half-circle from left to right, right to left, left to right, etc. Pretty soon you can make the image turn in the direction at your will.

Basically it's an optical illusion. It uses the way your mind assembles and comprehends visual images. Pretty neat.

I doubt it has anything to do with your dominant brain halve though. Most of the right brain/left brain traits listed is bogus to begin with. Futhermore, how the hell would a rotating image determine what brain halve is dominant? There's only one pathway your mind has to assemble images, how you interpretate it has nothing to do with 'how' you think. Why would a left rotation signify a logical person and a right rotation an intuitive one? Your brain doesn't work that way. I think it probably has to do with which side the danceress is on when you begin to look.

.... I should have sticked with the bewbies and zomgnipples.

[Oddysee]

Yaknow? I must be so left brained that my right brain has completely ceased functioning. I can't for the life of me see how it could even be concieved to float counter-clockwise. Can no one tell the right shoulder/hips/leg apart from the left? So, it befuddles me when people say they can cause it to switch at will. I know it's a silhouette but... there are still detailed facts of anatamy at work!

Reading some of the known details of the right/left brain functions, it makes sense to me, and just empasises me being so gorram leftied.

Well, at first, I saw it clockwise, and I thought "but you see the feet from below, you see the breasts disappear round her in an order that suggests she could never spin the other way, one is higher than the other and so on... It made perfect sense, till it flipped on me... suddenly it made sense the other way... I relaxed my eyes, and started catching the flaws in the animation... It's very scetchy...

It's not, as I at first thought, a full circle. She makes these jumps, whenever you'd be able pin point a real direction... Instead, the brain finishes the motion, granting the illusion of movement... That's what makes it seem real either way. We fill in the blanks ourselves, as we percieve they should be... But that's a whole other study in itself... But rather fascinating tho.

For me, I cant stop it now. It spins twice one way, twice the other on average... gives me a headache to look at, as it's jumping so much now...

Tm

[Traanse]

Hehe that's awesome! It was clockwise at first, but if I stare at her flexed foot then I can get it to change back and forth. It feels like I'm almost breaking something though... mental stress and then it just releases when it suddenly goes the other way. I think this is some kind of mind crack for me...

[Tastyvixen]

I feel left out. No matter how much I try I can only get it to go clockwise. heh I knew I was a creative type but I was also very good with math in school. (Then had no reason to use it for years and lost it.) Considering, I would think I'd be able to get it to go the other way. *shrugs*

Of course I'm one of those people who could never get the images to pop on the scrambled pictures that were popular in the 90s. (See schooner/boat scene in Mallrats) I'd just give myself a headache instead.