[helene_t]

Oh yes everything is relative, depending on what you have been smoking you will turn (counter)clockwise.

[gwnn]

Cascade, on Dec 15 2007, 08:39 PM, said:

I can see her rotating in both directions and alternating back and forth.

I am not sure which direction is clockwise - do we assume we are lying on the floor or somehow attached to ceiling?

that's horrible Wayne that's what I'm getting now horrible! ~175 degrees left, then ~175 right,

[helene_t]

Oh sorry Winston, now I understand what you mean. If you can see the ITV gameshow you can watch me as TV star in january. Not sure if I will be dancing though.Hopefully not naked in any case.

[kenberg]

Cascade, on Dec 15 2007, 01:39 PM, said:

I can see her rotating in both directions and alternating back and forth.

I am not sure which direction is clockwise - do we assume we are lying on the floor or somehow attached to ceiling?

This was what I saw. As her leg passes through the forward position and then extends to the side, she decides to reverse directions so that her leg comes out front again instead of moving back.

Perhaps my left and right brains are at war with each other?

[helene_t]

kenberg, on Dec 15 2007, 11:13 PM, said:

Perhaps my left and right brains are at war with each other?

That is the normal condition. We subconsciously generate competing interpretations of what we see. Often a single interpretation wins the raise for the conscious level, though.

[rona_]

She jumps on her left foot and turns clockwise...

[Elianna]

Me: clockwise.

My mom: both.

[blackshoe]

both ways. But I can't tell how she changes feet (she's rotating one direction on her right foot, and the other on her left).

If this was a real girl, though, I wouldn't be watching her feet.

[matmat]

i see both. then again... it's a naked girl, does direction matter?

[mike777]

hmm not sure what the issue is, it seems I can easily make it go either direction.

[Gerben42]

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I'm trying to force myself to see it move counter clockwise with no luck

Same here. Are those who write "counterclockwise" using the same kind of clocks?

My brain is not creative enough to interpret the other way around I guess.

[PassedOut]

mike777, on Dec 15 2007, 04:59 PM, said:

hmm not sure what the issue is, it seems I can easily make it go either direction.

Fascinating test! Was very hard for me to see the clockwise movement at first, but now I can switch back and forth.

Look at the extended leg and, when it is fully-extended, mentally reverse directions. The left leg becomes the right, or vice versa.

My wife was a clockwise viewer all the way until I showed her the trick.

[finally17]

Just so you're aware, these "tricks" that a couple of people have commented on just don't work for everyone.

I personally have to cut the top 2/3s of her body off (cover it with a window) to see any CCW movement at all outside of the shadows.

Guess I'm just stubborn.

[han]

cherdano, on Dec 15 2007, 11:21 AM, said:

I don't get it. How can you make sense of the shadow when you see her turning clockwise?

Yes, obviously the shadow only makes sense if she turns counterclockwise. But before seeing the shadow I couldn't see both ways and after seeing the shadow (had to scroll down) I had to focus a lot on the shadow to see her turn CCW.

[Fluffy]

I started with left leg on air (I think anti-clockwise)

I couldn't beleive this very same image could rotate differently but I tried anyway and made it rolll the opposite direction, but I couldn't undestand how it was possible to have a different leg now on the air.

After 5 minutes or so I could change directions at will by imagining them looking for a while at the top of the screen before pointing directly to the image.

When I read about the shadow thing I came back and now have problems to keep the left leg on air, she switches direction now while I am looking (something she didn't do before).

[barmar]

I'm similar to Al. It's mostly CCW, but when I tilted my head at the right time she switched direction, and then I had to try hard to get her back to the original direction. The switches seem to work best for me when her raised leg goes behind (or in front of?) her.

[jocdelevat]

if you save the picture and the played in the same time with the one in the link you'll see sommetimes they rotate in different direction.

[jdonn]

At first I saw counter-clockwise (where did this term anti-clockwise come from?) then I looked away, looked back, it was clockwise and I couldn't change it any more.

By golly, I went to wiki
"The opposite sense of rotation is counterclockwise (now chiefly North American English), or anticlockwise (the current British English term)." I learn something new every day.

[sceptic]

clockwise for about 5 mins, gave up trying to see it going anti clockwise

now I try later it is anitclockwise and I can't get it to go clockwise

Weird

[gwnn]

http://ofb.net/~whuang/imgs/spin/

For what it's worth, I think the bottom foot clearly gives away that the direction is clockwise.