Awesome, for some strange reason, I can change this one while I couldn’t the other.
A bit nippy.
That’s how I viewed it, too. Realizing that GIF animation can be speeded up or slowed down when creating the file, it seemed to me that the original images, if of a real person at all, were photographed much slower than finally presented. So the ponytail wasn’t swinging out as much as it might be if the original and final were the same speed. That much seemed to be a given and not a factor in the CW/CCW debate.
And the longer I look at this image, the more likely it is to produce the windshield-wiper effect. I think we are approaching cortexual satiation.
Very interesting–I could change the other, but not the reversed version!
-FrL-
The ponytail effect does not help solve the CW/CCW debate anyway, because it is consistent with both interpretations in the first place. (It is also consistent with both directions in the reversed version.)
Like others, I never really thought of it as a person spinning around; more like a statue spinning, or some such thing, or perhaps the camera spinning around a statue. As a result, all the ponytail type stuff has no effect on my interpretation.
I can’t get her to go any direction but clockwise, no matter how hard I try. I was trying to convince myself that when she sweeps her leg to her right, it’s actually moving forwards rather than backwards, but I can’t do it.
OK, I finally was able to make her change direction by looking at both the forwards and backwards animation at once. One of the directions is kind of herky-jerky, but that’s OK, I can do it now.
How clever of The Herald to know that the only people interested in optical illusions would be men.
Straight men.
This illusion is similar to the one where a concave impression of a face appears to rotate in the opposite of the actual direction (and is exploited to make images of faces that appear to follow you around the room).
Explained a little here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbKw0_v2clo
Or gay women. I, for one, find her pretty hot.
Clockwise - which makes sense. I’ve always known I’m predominantly right-brained/left-handed.
And I was able to switch it too - The trick is forcing the extended foot to be behind/infront when it’s infront/behind. I wasn’t ‘surprised’ by the ability to switch. It’s a silouhette (sfp?) so there is no third-dimension (z) data/information to work out what you are seeing so the brain is free to choose .
Clockwise, which also pretty well fits in with my right-brained/left-handedness. I’ve seen it before and was at one point able to switch, but once my brain makes up its mind about which way it’s going it’s almost impossible to force it the other way.
FWIW, the dancer is actually a 3D model from the program Poser. Looks like an older version of Poser than I have, though; it still uses the ponytail hair model from Poser 4.
My wife saw this and had trouble reversing it. We found the easiest way to get it to reverse is to block the screen with your hand so you can only see her feet. Now, whenever you “think” the extended foot is in front of her say “back” (the opposite of what it is), and likewise say “front” when you think the extended foot is behind. At some point you will most definitely get the “windshield wiper” effect and the dancer will be reversed when you remove your hand. If it still isn’t working, close your eyes for a revolution or two while you say “back”, “front”…
Once you do this a couple of times, you can reverse the image at will while watching it full-on.
Very cool!
I can make the original animation reverse at will in Explorer; in fact, I just amused myself for 30 seconds by making her swing her leg back and forth, always facing me.
I cannot make the image reverse in Firefox, where it spins much faster; there it always rotates clockwise.
I cannot make the image reverse when the animation is reversed as Mangetout did; there it always rotates counter-clockwise
Trying to make myself see her go counter-clockwise was giving me a headache.
At first I thought this was a “fool’s errand” of sorts…
And then I looked at post 29 and tried that.
Scared the begeezis’ out of me.
Could this say something for the political sense of the board? (for example, most right brained people are considered more artistic… most artists I know are free thinkers… How many “artsy” type people vs. bank owners would you see at a typical food co-op hemp necklace making course?) Would the majority, if tried at a “WE [HEART] G.W.” board give opposite answers to what direction they see the silhouette with nice nips going?
Sigh…
Once more: “logical left-brained people” and “artistic right-brained people” is dated pseudo-scientific crap. No recent credible research shows any link between reversible images and personality.