Scots Taffer on 10/10/2007 at 06:30
Quote Posted by Stitch
how do i make the lights come on
she's already high-beaming
snowcap21 on 10/10/2007 at 13:55
Is there anything that could give your brain the idea, that it goes clockwise? I'm asking because the shadows obviously (obviously like in: I needed twenty minutes to figure it out) hint on a counter clockwise rotation. So there should be something that points in the opposite direction, too.
SubJeff on 10/10/2007 at 14:00
Quote Posted by snowcap21
Is there anything that could give your brain the idea, that it goes clockwise? I'm asking because the shadows obviously (obviously like in: I needed twenty minutes to figure it out) hint on a counter clockwise rotation. So there should be something that points in the opposite direction, too.
They don't hint at any direction - they can be going either way, that's the point.
OrbWeaver on 10/10/2007 at 14:03
Quote Posted by crunchy
TI think they are just screwing with ya all. There are 2 animations and you just happen to get one or the other by random.
And somehow they manage to seamlessly switch between the two animations, without requiring a page refresh, at the exact moment I decide to see the reverse direction?
How ingenious of them.
snowcap21 on 10/10/2007 at 14:17
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
They don't hint at any direction - they can be going either way, that's the point.
Well, I can be wrong, but I think that shadow from her raised leg can only be visible for the spectator, when this leg is behind her, because the shadow of her other leg indicates that the light source is somewhere behind her.
edit: Also, when you see the shadow of her foot, the toes of this shadow are pointing away from you.
On the other hand, maybe this shadow is too well defined to be cast by an object (the foot), that is further away. I think it should be much more blurred.
Which would mean that, while the dancer can be seen turning in either direction, the shadow is presenting you with conflicting informations, of which your brain has to pick one.
For me she started to turn anti-clockwise, btw, but now I can see both directions, if I want. If I leave her to do what she wants, she changes directions every half turn and always turns away from me...
vurt on 10/10/2007 at 14:18
Clockwise for me, but anti-clockwise after a while, dont really know why because i dont change my focus, not consiously anyways..
Left/right brain functions is very interesting reading :)
doctorfrog on 10/10/2007 at 15:30
I'm hopelessly right-brained. :(
Although my horoscope, as described in the article, doesn't look too bad. :D
Shadow Creepr on 10/10/2007 at 15:47
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
My wife claims that it flips pretty much everytime she blinks or moves her gaze, without consciously trying to make it change direction...
That is the way it works for me too but she started out as spinning clockwise.
37637598 on 10/10/2007 at 16:30
Quote Posted by OrbWeaver
And somehow they manage to seamlessly switch between the two animations, without requiring a page refresh, at the exact moment I decide to see the reverse direction?
How ingenious of them.
lol:D Ya I know how these work, and they have nothing to do with the animation. Look at it like this. All she is, is a black shadow. If a naked girl is standing in front of a light, casting her shadow on the wall behind her, whether she is facing toward the light, or away from it, her shadow will be exactly the same. Lets sat she is facing sideways so you can see the shadow of her boobs. Whether she turns to face the light, or the wall, either way you will see the shadow of her boobs, then her shoulder, and because it's a 2 demensional image, you cannot tell which way she is facing after the turn because whether she is facing the light, or the wall, her shadow will look the same. look at it, think about it. It's an optical illusion. Nothing more, nothing less. Not a changing animation either.
demagogue on 10/10/2007 at 18:23
Quote Posted by OrbWeaver
It's clockwise for me, and I'm about as "left brain" as it's possible to get. I call bullshit on the whole direction-indicates-brain-hemisphere pop psychology aspect.
Cute illusion though.
The only thing that the hemispheres are going to distinguish are what's hitting left half of the retina vs the right half. So it's only going to work if you're staring exactly at the center and half of her is on one side and the other half the other side, and keep your focus there. But no one is naturally going to do that, not for long ... their eyes are going to wander (need I mention where?).
I could believe there's some statistical difference if you were doing it clinical style (where you stare at a dot, then they flash the image to you for a short period), but just throwing a .gif on a webpage, looking off-center, concentrating on it, all those things would probably kill whatever subtle effect splitting the image across hemispheres would have. Well, that's my theory anyway.
