Uh Oh . I see her changing directions. At first she appeared to be going one way. When I looked again, she was going the opposite direction. Then, she changed directions while in motion. The title to this thread is perfect.

You can see her nipples silhouetted twice (each) per rotation.

she’s clearly going counterclockwise… i don’t see it any other way.
maybe i’m just distracted by the nipples?

If you focus on the shadow under her heel for a minute or two, you will see her start rotating in the opposite direction.

spinning? all i see are nipples….

Jeebus, I keep seeing her go one way and then a moment later go the other way.

Mitch

ive been staring at this for 10 minutes now. its still only counterclockwise for me… maybe half of my brain is broken. or i’m a dolphin and half is asleep for the moment.

For the first few minutes I saw clockwise and could only catch counter clockwise out of the corner of my eye. After a while I could make myself see her rotating back and forth 180 degrees. What works for me is staring at just her outstretched leg.

At first I saw a spinning girl. The next ten minutes all I saw were nipples.

Ah yes, best way to show that us chemists are not sexists, talking about a computer generated silhoutte’s nipples.

Does anyone have any idea how this works though? I’ve been staring at it for way too long and can’t seem to see how it would appear to be going counterclockwise. However, if we take her foot pointing away from us to be 12 o’clock, it appears to me that she smoothly rotates from 3 to 12 and then immediately jumps to 3 again. I’ve managed to crudely slow it down by watching it while resizing the window, and it still seems like she’s definitely going clockwise.

I first saw clockwise, then I stared at her foot shadow about a minute or two, and then I see counterclockwise. Now I can’t see anything else.

There sure is a whole lot of nipple talk here.

Alright people, the key is that because it is all black, you can’t tell which leg is in front of which. So you make a decision, and then it alternates and you can’t break the pattern.

If you cover up the top half so you can only see the legs you can choose which way she is rotating by watching the foot pass the stationary leg and saying to yourself “front, back, front, back” (or to see it the other way say “back, front, back, front”). When you have convinced yourself of this reality, look at the whole figure and she will be spinning that way.

I have noticed something wrong too:

IT’S A SHEMALE!!!

There’s a reason why people are seeing her change directions – because she actually does. It’s nothing but a silly trick. The only insight it gives into brain function is to test how gullible people are.

Well, I tried all of the tricks to make it turn the other way, but all I see is clockwise no matter what. I just can’t imagine how it could be otherwise any which way I look at it.

According to the website, since I’m heavily biased towards one side of the brain, it means that I tend to avoid logic, and math and science aren’t my strong points. I’m also not a very practical person and don’t care about things like ‘facts’ and ‘knowing’ stuff. I’m also not very detail oriented and language isn’t my strong point.

Sounds about right.

It took me a few minutes but now I can switch between the two at will.
She must be feeling pretty dizzy by now because I know I am.

All I see is clockwise, no matter how hard I look. The man in my life only sees counterclockwise.
I’m not sure about what the site says, though. I’m so left-brained it’s not even funny; my boyfriend is an architect and has incredible spatial skills that I’m completely lacking (left/right? what? i understand up and down…).

I wonder if her nipples are pierced.

What if she stops spinning? Then walks up to my screen and tells me not to open my car trunk?

Is… is that you, mom?

All I see is clockwise, no matter what I try. I must be a mutant!

Amusing. At first I thought it was a trick question to see how people would define differently what turning clockwise or counterclockwise meant.
I’ve looked at it for a while and from what I can see I am 100% convinced that she’s turning clockwise. All the time. Curiously my girlfriend insists that she changes direction quite oftenly – while I can see no change in the animation.
According to the Herald Sun this should mean that I’m a right-side brain dominated person, which is interesting because usually these sorts of things picks me out as a person who is extremely dominated by the left side of my brain.

She’s switching quite often, but a few seconds ago she stopped moving and wiggled her foot whilst facing away from the viewer. Gah what a time suck watching this is.

I think it’s funny that everyone sees her spinning clockwise, meaning we’re right-brained – and the description on the link says that the left brain is supposed to be scientific… Maybe I’m in the wrong field? or just staring too long? lol

Another vote for clockwise but left brain.

I can see where the ‘trick’ is by the way the legs overlap and seem to reverse direction but I don’t see how you could get CCW and match it up with the legs being in the front of the body.

All I see is clockwise, no matter how long I watch it…does it mean that I am using only the wrong half of my brain? damn I always knew that science was not my business

It’s hard, but I can finally make her switch directions by forcing myself to ’see’ her legs rotate the other direction. Goddamn brain… once it gets some idea in there, it won’t let it go.

Covering up her body with your hand and crossing your eyes as she rotates her legs does some strange shit. Just don’t let people in your lab/office see you do it or they’ll think you’re a freak.

All these comments about her nipples is the litmus test that chemists by and large need to get laid!

Have you guys tried capturing a full frontal view and then altering the gamma, contrast, and brightness to reveal detail?

This test is freaky.

Did anyone see the dog tail wagging study that looked at left/right brain function?

http://www.iht.com/articles/20.....snmood.php

They made some interesting comments about how the left and right brain actually functions:

“Research has shown that in most animals, including birds, fish and frogs, the left brain specializes in behaviors involving what the scientists call approach and energy enrichment. In humans, that means the left brain is associated with positive feelings, like love, a sense of attachment, a feeling of safety and calm. It is also associated with physiological markers, like a slow heart rate.

At a fundamental level, the right brain specializes in behaviors involving withdrawal and energy expenditure. In humans, these behaviors, like fleeing, are associated with feelings like fear and depression. Physiological signals include a rapid heart rate and the shutdown of the digestive system.”

So are left-brain users better at science, but also more positive psychologically? And why would creativity also be associated with ‘fight or flight’ type functions? (If we take this and run with it..)

OK! I finally got her to go the other direction. I had to cut out everything except the feet, and then snap out to the whole picture, and then it “collapsed” and returned to the clockwise after about 2 seconds. I think there are body visual cues which suggest clockwise (like maybe the ponytail’s direction is biased)? Or maybe there are cultural things, like dancing postures? Maybe we should ask the people who answered “clockwise” (which is predominant) if they watch dancing shows on TV. I don’t beleive this left brain/right brain bullshit.

Optical illusion….bah!…nice excuse for staring at a naked woman, men

And I completely fail to see the antiCW rotation.

I can now maker her rock back in forth in the same place without ever making a full rotation!

Mitch

Today a bushwa MS/psychology thesis, tomorrow flat OLE display as truck mud flaps. I love living in the future!

despite hours of trying, I ONLY see counterclockwise. weird

Interestingly, when I see her rotating clockwise, she is spinning around her left leg, while the right leg is moving and the right arm is the one slightly bent: when she switches direction, the spinning occurs around her right leg, and the whole image is inverted! Since we are (mostly) among chemists, I can write that…it seems that, depending on the direction of rotation, we are looking at the two enantiomers of the girl! I don’t know if that just happens to me, but hey, isn’t it extremely weird??

http://community.livejournal.c.....#t12490297

I am totally weirded out by the notion that anyone could possibly imagine that she is rotating clockwise. It is so completely counter-clockwise. The projection of her outstretched foot is tracing a clockwise path, but that wasn’t the question, was it…

would it make me sound like a creepy old man to suggest that the rotation sense copmpletely depends on the vantage point? Imagine you are a dwarf looking under the skirt of a rotating Snowhite. Or an Ogre looking down at your latest victim.

in my case, sense of rotation is dependant on the angle from which I look at the display.

What’s the original source of this research? You can get a lot more variation by observing her feet along with the shadow. That’s how I’m able to have her rotating counterclockwise . When I am observing the upper part of her body , there’s almost exclusively clockwise.

No way .. she is clearly going clockwise!

http://freakonomics.blogs.nyti.....-teach-us/