Look at the dancer below. What do you see? Is she turning clockwise or counter-clockwise? You just can’t help but love these optical illusions.
If you see her turning clockwise (right) then your left side of the brain is doing most of the work, which means you are more of a logic/analyzing person.
If you see the dancer turning counter-clockwise (left) then your right side of the brain is in charge, this means you are the artistic/intuition person.
You control the way the dancer turns. Try looking at this with a few more people and see how everyone sees it different.
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BS on November 27, 2007 3:48 am
This is nonsense if you save the image on your computer it moves slower and you can see her change directions. (Flip back and forth between browser and saved image)
HE IS RIGHT, GOD DAMNIT
I was amused by all the response to the viral propagation of this cute animated gif.
As a creative director, working with tools of the my trade far too many hours of the day, I decided to use one of them to take a peek inside the file, and examine the 34 frames contained therein, one by one.
Now, I’m not sure if I should now quit my job as a creative director, or hide because I’ve vanquished another easter bunny/santa claus/tooth fairy type posting.
The axis to which this model is spinning is plainly viewed as moving, for the viewer, from left to right, which transcribed to “Plan-View”, would clearly dictate a counter-clockwise revolution. All evidence, swinging body parts aside (even the pert breasts and taut nipples) empirically offer that as the only conclusion.
Conclusion: Another hoax, justifying the staring at a presumably naked young woman.
NO… WAIT… I’m wrong.
I’ve watched it a bit more and now I see that she’s actually fully clothed!.
If you squint your left (or right) eye, and completely close the opposite, and then allow your partially open squinted eye to tear-up a bit, you’ll see she’s wearing a raincoat with red sneakers.
Sorry. I couldn’t help myself.
Prank prank prank, this gif changes direction
It’s definately not timed. How I know this? A group of friends looking at the girl see it spinning different ways! It was funny how we started accusing each other of being wrong! LOL
Nothing fake about it. Its just 34 frames, each being displayed at 3/100ths of a second in loop from 1 to 34 and starts at 1 again, it does not rewind. It’s just the up and down motion of her head on a decent to the right, how her shoulder covers her breast during the rotation, and how a person naturally uses their right arm to guide themselves when turning right. I’ve played this animation in reverse and it appears that she is turning left. Her breast become uncovered by her left shoulder and the lowered hand becomes the guide. Frame by frame it is very clear she is turning clockwise. But if you pay attention to the shadow you can trick your brain and she appears to be turning left.
Hammm… Nice article… Interesting.
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
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Oh, and did not know about it. Thanks for the information …
what matter is,what u see at your first look to that whirling lady..of course after reading the article -most of the people (well i did for instance) can make their mind(brain?) think the other way around and see the lady turning the opposite direction.AS i told before what matter is the first sight,in my opinion.And as someone said below,just one test is not enough to determine whether u r left or right brained.
Man. No matter how hard I try, I can’t get it to rotate any other way but clockwise.
I frankly don’t get how people can see it otherwise.
hmmmmmmmm it goes both ways for me… but i do not control it, i think. at first it would just go clockwise, and i was like noooooooo i wanna be artistic. then i read comments, looked back, and it was cc. then it just went cw… so i looked away, visualize her cc, then she was going cc.. then changed back to cw again. CONFUSING
She does both rotations in different fractions (of time)
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I Think she is turning in both directions.
I don’t know what you folks could mean by “its a trick”. People are confusing the issue by not defining terms. See, we all know that the dancer is not actually spinning because “she” exists in 2 dimensions and not 3. The illusion of spinning is made up of a series of images. The spinning takes place in our minds, not in our computer screen. So, for example” what dot probably meant by “I Think she is turning in both directions” is that she can change the direction that she perceives that the dancer is turning. You can’t call this a trick or a hoax any more than you can call your favorite tv show a hoax. That cowboy is not actually riding off into the sunset, because he can only move in two dimensions. (In fact, there’s not actually a cowboy on your tv at all)
I was able to change the direction I perceived the dancer to be spinning focusing my gaze to the side of the dancer and not directly on her. I also said front and back to myself and when I got the rhythm down I reversed it and after a while it seemed to work- the dancer seemed to change direction.
As someone pointed out earlier if more information was available, such as shading and color, it would be harder to change the direction which we perceive the dancer to be turning.
As interesting as this image is, I don’t think the author of this article drew the right conclusions- that if you see the dancer turning clockwise you are a logical thinker and if you see her turning counter clockwise you are an artistic thinker. I think the comment about native English speakers reading left to right front to back was was closer to the truth. Most people could probably see the dancer turn in both directions, but most native English speakers would probably see her turn clockwise initially. I am going say this is because most
My conclusion- thinking “habit” controls the way that you perceive the dancer to be turning INITIALLY.
Bottom line:
- If you think this is “a trick” you’re right( in a very elementary way)
- If you think the dancer is turning CW, you’re right.
- If you think the dancer is turning CCW, you’re right.
- If somehow you perceive a kangaroo doing backflips, you’re right(but I’m sure if you put on your glasses and look again your perception will change quite a bit)
THIS IS A NEAT PICTURE BUT DON’T LABEL YOURSELF LOGICAL OR ARTISTIC OR BOTH BASED ON THE WAY YOU SEE THE DANCER TURNING.
thinking habit-
the way that a group or individual is accustomed to thinking.
Probably a result social programming and not innate to an individual.
By the way. I think the people that say they are able to see the dancer turning CW by doing long division in their heads and then changing the direction to CCW by thinking about clouds and puppies and Picasso are a little off. What you are really doing is associating these thoughts with a certain direction. Long Division= CW and Puppies= CCW. You are programming yourself to conclude what the author of the article concludes.
…and the ‘after-effects’ goes on and on and on and on
i have a headache now….lol
cant figure it out. only goes cw
hey guys,
her leg id turnning one way and her upper body is turnning the other way.
i don’t get it =(
Cliff’s method works! Look at the shadow area and just follow the direct the shadow that rotates, squint your eyes which doing that then wait for it to turn the other way(and it will)!
No, this is so lame. I’m an artistic person, but at first I saw the dancer turning clockwise, and then switch to counter clockwise, and then clockwise…back and forth back and forth. It’s bull. It’s not an optical illusion if the picture changes without it actually being the reaction of our eyes/brains. What crud.
…Oh my gosh. Just kidding.
You can flip it easy if you imagine eyes.
At first I saw it going clockwise. Then, it began to turn counter clockwise, and then it started going back and fourth over again and again! It would keep flipping until my brain finally got a steady picture.
Cool little graphic! You can see a some curves on here, very nice!
Very Artistic
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thats kinda strange, but if you schrool down for a ways and then up real fast shes standing still. and then she starts spiing, sometimes shes facing other directions. not lieing
I found that if you just stare at her foot that stays straight and keep watching as the otehr foot passes behind it, you can get it to switch from clockwise to c.c.
pretty sweet illusion.
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I like the reflection below the girl, it makes this effect even more attractive!
This is a strange picture, but creative in its own way.
about right v. left side brian – fuuul rubish! The animation is just very good created – the dancer moves clockwise, then she turns and starts mooving the opposite side!
Notice how her left leg is lifted in the air and how this left leg spins anti-clockwise. And next? What happens after few seconds? She turns her leg’s direction and continue spinning the opposite – clockwise! E viola!
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Weird but, I can choose which way I want it to go, reluctantly though.
Awesome graphic….first i saw only d clockwise……If u dont see the counterclockwise here is a tip which helped me see it…..look at the shadow the lady’s leg on the floor for 10 seconds and suddenly u realize the lady is spinning counterclokwise……
I can easily change her direction by looking at narrow places, like her neck, waist, and foot. I initially saw her spinning clockwise though.
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First i saw it turning clockwise… but people! come on! she is LITERALY TURNING ANTI-CLOCKWISE… know why? Just go and look at the shadow below her… U see one leg and then 2 legs in the shadow… when there is a second leg, her leg wich are lifted is in the back side… so hope you guys understand… but nw im thinking, if its anti-clockwise and need 2 see a shadow b4 recognizing it, aren’t u then logical type of person and clockwise a creative person?
I always see this clockwise, and was really stumped as to how anyone could see it anti-clockwise. But trace your finger on the screen where her foot moves. If you can concentrate hard enough and imagine the inverse of dimensions where she would move anti-clockwise in that same movement, it switches. You see that instead of an out-to-in movement you currently see, it could also be an in-to-out movement. I can (after looking at it for 10 mins) easily alternate the direction I perceive her to be moving.
What dancer ?
according to me all i can see is clockwise when you think of her leg thats up as your index finger it still looksclockwise
I’m on Jon’s pattern, March 18th. I can change her rotation back and forth. I am able to keep her from completing a full circle for over a minute.Don’t know what that means just is a curious illusion. Makes no sense when I try to analzye it by saying this leg- that leg left to right- right to left. I do it by looking down to the right and then the left and switching my thought patterns from stressful things to my painting.
I work in 3D, I’m used to 3D model rotations. It’s counter-clockwise because of the shadow. That’s the direction they turned the model, but only half way, then looped it. the reason you see the shadow for 180 degrees and not the other 180 is because of where the rotation starts. It’s an optical illusion and only affects your perception based on the assumption your brain makes in the first 3 frames. Jebus I can’t believe I read almost 100 comments and nobody pointed this out. If this has anything to do with left/right brain activity I’ve yet to hear why.
I first saw her going anti-clockwise, but they#n when my dad put his finger on her leg and went clockwise, she started going clockwise…but now she won’t go back….
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hi erm that wos freaky at first i saw it turning right and then next to it on the comp screen i started to draw a figure of her and the when i got to the legs it changed and i saw that she then wos spinning the other way at first it serioudly freaked me out!
Ha ha I see it now alrights its simple when she turns where everyone sees her back she switches her legs.Where everyone gets confused of whitch she is doing conter clock wise or clock wise.
Question is can you really say she is doing counter clock wise or clock wise?I think it would be not that she would be doing both but what you saw first of the way she was going and for me that was counter clock wise.Besides what ever you saw first is what she was doing besides you can’t say a person who is wiping the table is doing both just because he is using differnet hands it has to be only one because she isn’t turning back just going the same way the whole time.
It’s not even debatable, she is going counter clockwise. If you watch the shadows of her feet, you can clearly see that when she goes from right to left, the shadow of her foot is visible, when she goes from left to right it is not. Which means she is going counter clockwise.