Comments | kechara_: Interesting thing

kechara_

Interesting thing

Oct 13, 2007 08:19

Look at the image in this article.

Which way is it for you? (sorry being deliberately vague in the hope I don't affect the results lol)

( My answer - read this after you've looked at the story (if you're interested :P) )

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ilumiari October 13 2007, 00:31:15 UTC

I saw this a few days ago, and I'm pretty sure that it's not an optical illusion - the dancer actually reverses every few minutes.

kechara_ October 13 2007, 00:34:18 UTC

Oh that's interesting, so it must be the speed at which you register the spinning then..

ilumiari October 13 2007, 00:35:23 UTC

After watching it again I'm convinced. Just keep watching it long enough and you'll notice it reverse. Or go away for a minute and when you get back it'll have reversed - without any major brain activity on your part.

kechara_ October 13 2007, 00:39:34 UTC

Hmm.. i've watched it for a while now and it still looks clockwise to me?

ilumiari October 13 2007, 00:40:30 UTC

Well... it's just a gif image, is there any way to break a gif down into individual frames that you know of?

kechara_ October 13 2007, 00:46:53 UTC

I just googled a little free app that does the job:

http://www.xoyosoft.com/gs/download/gs.zip

Even the split images look clockwise haha.. wonder if anyone actually sees it anti-clockwise..

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ilumiari October 13 2007, 00:54:52 UTC

I'm... so confused now. If I watch the gif slowed down it does horrible things to my mind.

kechara_ October 13 2007, 00:56:00 UTC

haha ^_^;;

I don't think it's a trick after all though.. which is interesting. You must be one of those people who can see both!

j3ffu October 13 2007, 01:17:06 UTC

Actually, I'm pretty sure its not a trick :P
I've been watching it with Em, and we see it go different ways at the exact same time. Which is what one of my colleagues said about him and his partner when they were watching it. He thought it was rubbish, until they both started looking at it and started seeing it go different ways XD

kechara_ October 13 2007, 01:23:32 UTC

haha that's so odd..

so which way are you? lol

j3ffu October 13 2007, 05:38:38 UTC

Clockwise, which is odd, cos all the characteristics seem wrong :P

kechara_ October 13 2007, 00:54:26 UTC

Actually sorry no I take that back, the second half looks reversed when I look at it in thumbnail mode, but then when I scan through all the images from halfway in filmstrip mode it still appears to be moving clockwise to me.

I can see how it would appear anti-clockwise to some people though, if this is the case.

ilumiari October 13 2007, 00:56:12 UTC

If I look at it frame by frame I see it move both ways at once D:

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