You won't believe it.. but it is true :)

jeff hammond

so maybe you intended to mirror one of the pictures? They appear the same to me.

me?
they're fully different .. i edited that post to put a big space in between the two gifs so you can look at them one at a time

jeff hammond

@unknownuser said:

I think that image can help those with 'one direction only' find a way to switch.

i think these modifications can really help those seeing only one direction (via the site susan linked to)

counter clockwise

clockwise

sorgesu

Works for me now, though the first one is apt to change direction for a moment.

I was looking to see the differences in the direction of the rings in the background and or the darkness. I honestly cannot see the difference. What am I missing?

PS> "me?" ????

jeff hammond

@sorgesu said:

Works for me now, though the first one is apt to change direction for a moment.

I was looking to see the differences in the direction of the rings in the background and or the darkness. I honestly cannot see the difference. What am I missing?

PS> "me?" ????

the rings in the background are only so you can see the rim lights that the guy added.. he highlighted areas which force you to see one leg on top of the other for instance.. here's the actual link to where the gifs came from..
http://ofb.net/~whuang/imgs/spin/

ely862me

i caught the first girl spinning clockwise for several times

sorgesu

wow, I totally missed those "rim" lights as I was looking for reasons for the differences. Obviously they were being perceived subconsioulsy nontheless. Now that I know what I am lookin for I see it completely.

Thanks for that!

pilou

Even with the "White outline" we can force with any problem the dancer follow Clockwise or not!
Blink, see legs, move head and open eyes when turning is well engaged!
Our brain is a little joker
It will be funny of what must see a camera movie from that!
It is like the Schrödinger's cat, till nobody see the dancing girl, in what dance she turn?
Right or left valtz?

Mike Lucey

..... I'm dizzy

david_h

I just find it interesting that the test case is aHooters Girl.You can tell this is a team of eternally adolescent frat boy scientists. Not that I am prudish or offended at all but you think they could point out the same thing with oh . . .I dunno . .. a dancing hippo or something.
Instead they opt for the Trucker's Mudflap sillohuette. No .. .Women aren't objectified at all. Most ballerina's I have seen aren't built like that!

She's going Clockwise by the way. . . .

Anssi

@unknownuser said:

Most ballerina's I have seen aren't built like that!

I would bet that the image is exported from Poser.

Anssi

david_h

What is that . . .Poser? Wanna Be "America's Top Models"? jk

I knew that. Im jus kiddin' around.

RayOchoa

Tip: try confusing ur brain at intersecting parts like the legs.

tomot

@unknownuser said:

I think that image can help those with 'one direction only' find a way to switch. Why? Take a closer look at each individual frame. I can easily see all those intermediate frames between those when the position of the lady IS certain, as a lady facing me or showing her back !

Our imagination decides if we see the front or the back because the silhouette doesn't define it exactly.
Tomasz

We, in the western world, learn the process of reading at an early age. That process involves recognizing individual patterns. Furthermore each of us spends a lot of time associating those patterns of letters with words, that pattern recognition process just happens to start at the left and ends at the right. But not in all languages follow reading patterns from left to right.
(Unfortunately after many years of education sadly today, many have not mastered that process)

Even the individual pictures you placed in your picture are assumed to be read left to right just as we read text, followed by line after line.

Many years ago, before computers. The Type that was produced by newspapers required a person that was a Typesetter by profession. These Typesetters had to layout each newspaper page by installing individual blocks of type, each block contained one letter, those letters were mirror images of each letter of type, and had to be placed as a mirror image of the page so that the offset press would then print the page. A Typesetter had to be able to pick individual blocks of letters which were mirrored as well as be able to place those blocks into words that he had to be able to spell and read backwards, as he or she was laying out a page for printing.

Hence I don't think this has anything to do with imagination, or right versus left brain thinking.