Awesome experiment / optical illusion - please play along!

It is NOT an Optical Illusion. Random file array makes model turn.
You can't will it to turn, nor is it an optical effect. If you want to believe it's an illusion, then you will wait for it to reverse direction & then reaffirm your belief that your mind made it reverse.
On October 30th, 2008 RPsupporter says:

The illusion is that people THINK it's an illusion because it's presented that way.

If you download the file you will find that the model can be made to spin clockwise or counterclockwise using a simple random number generator that will run the sequence of frames forward or backward in a random number of frames.

Depending upon your modem speed connection to that url, the model may turn slower or more rapidly. At some juncture it may appear to slow down before reversing direction. That certainly is a que that your are not witnessing an optical illustion.

Of course if you want to believe it's an optical illusion, that's fine. It appears that the animator intended you to believe that anyways.

I can find no other reason for contriving this animation other than to say she looks great in silhouette.

Later post:

I do flash animation and it would be fairly simple to create one of these so-called 'optical illusions' even though that is NOT what it is.

For example, imagine a clock or dial with one arm on it. You can make the arm go clockwise than stop it and make it go the other way. You can do this with a random number generator so that it changes direction in a random number of frames so that one cannot predict when it will change direction.

What I find amusing is that people want to believe that this is an illusion because they are apparently unfamiliar with random number generators.

If you have a screen saver with a fish tank view, the fish never appear to swim the same patterns because a random number generator is incorporated to prevent them from 'swimming' predictable cycles.

Of course you can 'believe' that the fish are magically swimming or that your mind has made them turn in the opposite direction. But that is not what is happening.

Stop looking at her boobs and you can see it. Men are hypnotized by boobs, and therefore, are not thinking with any part of the brain. lol

Cool trick
Look at the foot shadow and you can change which direction you want it to go.

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I wondered at first whether it was just switching directions at a set interval or just randomly. Once I saw it was a .gif file, then I knew it wasn't switching randomly. And the fact that I saw it switch directions an irregular intervals meant that it probably was just an illusion and not really switching direction.

I found that if I looked not directly at the image, but a little bit off to the side so it was in my peripheral vision that I was able to "make" it switch back and forth. I would just watch the leg that was pointing outward and when it looked like it was going in front of the other leg I would make myself see it as going behind the other leg, and then the image "switched direction".

It was pretty neat.

As far as the list of functions described as left brain and right brain, I recognize myself as having the all of them from both sides. I think it's merely a choice as to whether you "use logic" or "use feelings", or focus on "details" or the "big picture", etc. I actively choose between the "left" or the "right" side from that list, depending on what I'm doing, and what perspective I want or think is appropriate.

And there's a lot of over-generalization, exaggeration, and pseudo-science around the idea of "left-brain/right-brain": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralization_of_brain_function

monitor. Right click on the image and save the gif to your desktop. Go to your desktop properties and browse to image and set as desktop. Be sure to have position set to 'Tile".
Now you can keep track of what side of your brain you are burning out on the DP at any time, just by minimizing your browser. LOL

It spun right brain for me at first, which IS me, and I could get it to spin the other way really easy..back and forth. Wish I could really use my left brain so easily, usually..was cool..

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"Observe the masses,and do the opposite."

scroll down or cover all but the legs...it´s easier to switch direction then...

also this video of her, if you pause when her leg is outstretched you can flip her anyway you want when you play again.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/870136/left_brain_v_right_brai...

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/Mike

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I made the mistake of watching the woman spinning again, while Obama's half hour commercial was on T.V. in the background. It was too much stimulus. Now I'm hearing voices in my head :-(

The voices are telling me that Obama will be a great leader and that Communism isn't so bad.

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to make her spin the other direction is more fun----or reading all the comments below!

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is take my eyes down to her left side. Probably would work other places, but I didn't try. Interesting. Started out going counter.

I can make her go back and forth without turning around by looking off her screen to the left and then look over off the screen to the right down on the bottom.

can't get it going anticlockwise even while doing math