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Offline RobW

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« Reply #15 on: October 14, 2007, 07:40:00 AM »
The picture showed her feet?  whistling.gif Actually, yesterday morning when I looked she was turning counter-clockwise--until I scrolled down the page--as the paged scrolled, she changed directions. Since then, last night and this morning, she's turning clockwise. unsure.gif
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« Reply #16 on: October 14, 2007, 09:01:20 AM »
QUOTE(krissel @ Oct 13 2007, 09:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Of course one wonders if the males observing the figure have trouble moving their gaze to the feet.... wink.gif


Hey, she's got nice feet too!

And I did notice the first time I watched it.

So there! toothgrin.gif

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« Reply #17 on: October 14, 2007, 10:45:33 AM »
I saw her turning both clockwise and anti-clockwise. However; I saw clockwise first, so I guess I am right-brained primarily.
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« Reply #18 on: October 14, 2007, 12:10:33 PM »
With all the additional posts, I had to try again. This time, it loaded. On dial-up, it's obvious to me that the image abrubtly changes direction after a certain amount of time. The image flickers constantly, and as I watched it rotated one way and then the other. The time interval seemed pretty consistent.
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« Reply #19 on: October 14, 2007, 12:38:01 PM »
QUOTE(Gregg @ Oct 14 2007, 01:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
With all the additional posts, I had to try again. This time, it loaded. On dial-up, it's obvious to me that the image abruptly changes direction after a certain amount of time. The image flickers constantly, and as I watched it rotated one way and then the other. The time interval seemed pretty consistent.


That's what I thought too, but after staring at the dancer for a long while, I could only get her to change direction when I looked away and then looked back. Didn't matter what part of her I looked at...  Devilish2.gif harhar.gif  

Oh yeah, pretty much equal on both directions... how come I ain't no Leonardo?

Darn! toothgrin.gif
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« Reply #20 on: October 14, 2007, 08:09:01 PM »
Yes, I guess my attention span is pretty consistent. I noticed that if I glanced to another part of the screen, that's when she started spinning the other way. It was an awkward transition, thus giving the appearance that the image was going to do that no matter what I did.
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« Reply #21 on: October 14, 2007, 08:49:58 PM »
I finally got her to spin counterclockwise but I couldn't hold it long. She went right back to spinning clockwise.
Typical woman.  dry.gif

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« Reply #22 on: October 15, 2007, 01:46:05 PM »
Has anyone read this article at the New Scientist site? Here's an interesting tidbit:

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What this animation does not involve is different sides of the brain, as the initial post claims. What you see is purely due to your perceptual and cognitive flexibility.

What is a little scary is how threatened by this some people clearly feel. The blogosphere is rife with arguments and ingenious explanations of the lady, with some people simply refusing to believe it isn’t an animation tick that really changes direction every few minutes.

Even more common are the people who are sure they know how to make her change direction. According to them, the trick is to hold your head or hands in certain ways, tilt the screen or look at her out of the corner of one eye. It was what they were doing when they saw her change – so it must work. Right?
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« Reply #23 on: October 15, 2007, 09:53:19 PM »
Oh sure, these "scientists" want to get some attention by discounting what everyone else already knows! But they weren't on the Internet first, so there! Do you believe what you see or what some "scientist" claims to 'know'? Well, we all know the answer to that one? tongue.gif
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« Reply #24 on: October 16, 2007, 12:57:31 AM »
Now Jim, it's the scientists who were able to discount the silhouette's shape and concentrate on the eye/brain relationship. wink.gif


Hey, did anyone go to the link where the animation is duplicated side by side? (scroll down a little)

http://richarddawkins.net/forum/viewtopic....mp;sd=a#p445484


I was actually able to get them to go different directions at the same time, but only for a few seconds. swoon.gif
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« Reply #25 on: October 16, 2007, 07:24:38 AM »
With the faster connection here at work, I cannot see the image change direction as often. It only seems to change for me if I momentarily lose focus. Just looking away doesn't always do it. It's more like the sensation of nodding off when tired that produces the "anti" movement. (Must be a Bringlish term....)
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