Comments on: You spin me right round

By: Alison Reese

Alison Reese — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:41:32 +0000

whoa , at first it start to vibrate and then the foot is ….like , turn it ….whoa !! hmmm , but it turn it for a moment …maybe i will stare at it longer.

By: Bijzondere Spiraal! | PuurZaam.nl

Bijzondere Spiraal! | PuurZaam.nl — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:09:45 +0000

[...] to add: if you like this illusion, then you might want to check out this audio illusion, and this one of a spinning woman’s sillhouette which is one of my all-time favorites. [...]

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:02:31 +0000

Well, for the life of me, I can only see it spinning counter-clockwise. It seems to stop for a fraction of a second every once in a while, but I don’t see any change in rotation.

Now I’m going to stay awake nights wondering what *that* means . . .

By: OWER COTO

OWER COTO — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:40:41 +0000

LA SOMBRA DE LA CHICA NO TOCA EL SUELO,
QUE RARA VISIÓN DE LA INFORMATICA….

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:26:49 +0000

The first time I saw the dancing girl she spun clockwise about five times and then spontaneously went off in the other direction. I thought she was programmed to do that, so I began counting rotations, but she kept on her anti-clockwise track. I then tried to make her go the other direction–and she did. Now she is completely under my control. I can just think “other way” and she switches. I can get her to swing her leg while facing me, until I release her. One of the tricks is to concentrate on her frontal view, thinking “Face me.” I haven’t been able to make her change directions when her ponytail is facing me. This is all fun, but I wish I could figure out how the image is constructed. I understand that it does not change. The change occurs in my brain–a bit disturbing, as it represents a disconnect between what is out there and what I think I’m seeing.

By: The same color illusion « Mind? What mind?

The same color illusion « Mind? What mind? — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:34:51 +0000

[...] called the same color illusion, illustrates that purely human observations in science may be ambiguous or inaccurate. Even such a seemingly direct perception as relative color. Similar illusions exist [...]

By: Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 7/2/2007 » Chymistry

Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 7/2/2007 » Chymistry — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:50:01 +0000

[...] Spinning Sihouette Optical Illusion This one’s a doozy. (via Phil) [...]

By: Irishman

Irishman — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:38:55 +0000

Oh, yeah, the shadow can be important. The shadow foot shows up when the foot is nearer to you than when it is farther away. This only happens if she is spinning clockwise, right leg raised. When spinning anticlockwise, left leg raised, looking at the shadow is one of the things that breaks the image for me.

By: Irishman

Irishman — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:35:03 +0000

Charles, it was very difficult for me to get her to change directions. It took isolating what I could see to just her pivot foot, using another window to block the rest of the page. Then watching her foot and consciously perceiving the foot rotating the opposite direction. Just like convex/concave images, you have to pick which direction is in and out of the page, so with the foot I picked which direction was in and which was out as the toes swung around. That reversed the foot rotation direction. Then uncover the rest of the image and see the lady rotate the opposite direction. May have to repeat the process a couple of times before it works right on the whole.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:01:15 +0000

This is making me crazy. She is obviously spinning anti-clockwise. I can’t even imagine how it could seem to be anything different. I’ve been staring for like 10 minutes. What in the world are you people talking about?

By: Irishman

Irishman — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:42:22 +0000

Okay, I finally saw it. It took staring only at her foot with the rest blocked, and then I had to manually force the image reversal. I mean concentrate hard to make it reverse. Then I repeated the process with the full image. Yes, it worked. Her raised leg switches from right to left as she switches directions.

Weird. And no, looking at the shadow didn’t do it. The shadow confidently conformed to whatever the rest of the image was doing.

By: coalbanks

coalbanks — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:29:56 +0000

Blink on/Blink off. Just look away from her, look at the refection below her & presto!

By: According to Colwell » Blog Archive » Spinning Silhouette Illusion

According to Colwell » Blog Archive » Spinning Silhouette Illusion — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:28:56 +0000

[...] Bad Astronomer had a link to this cool illusion. Interestingly, I have a very hard time seeing her spin clockwise, [...]

By: Kyle_Carm

Kyle_Carm — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:57:26 +0000

I got it pretty quickly. ANd I think my cat saw it but was freaked by it she just started staring at it and would bat at it .

By: Leslie C

Leslie C — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:31:19 +0000

Being a woman, I had no problem just looking at her feet, so I got it right away. You can even make her just sway back and forth with practice. I have a lot of trouble with the crater/dome illusion, though.

By: Tonight’s Full Moon Will Look Huge

Tonight’s Full Moon Will Look Huge — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:08:32 +0000

[...] reasons no one quite understands, our brains trick us into thinking it’s bigger. There are many optical illusions out there, many of them attributable to our brains using some nearby reference point from which to [...]

By: terry

terry — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:11:13 +0000

Hey! Who’s gonna clean up this mess?!? Brain puddles all over the floor…

By: John Paradox

John Paradox — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:35:06 +0000

Oran_Taran:

Welcome to the world of computers. I don’t know how my .sig file (which is what it is) is appearing randomly, since it’s ONLY supposed to be on my posts, but perhaps you should check your medication.
Perhaps you should look up : SIG FILE and PARADOX, maybe someone will explain it to you.
Oh, and also look up TROLL.

J/P=?

By: RamblinDude

RamblinDude — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:40:05 +0000

Yeah, I saw this last night on Digg. It is definitely the best optical illusion I have ever seen. At first I thought, â€˜Whatâ€™s the big deal?â€™ it was obviously clockwise, it couldnâ€™t be anything else. Then I looked at the shadow! Whoa!!

By: Oran_Taran

Oran_Taran — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:16:11 +0000

What the heck does “J/P=?” mean? does the fact that it has a =? mean that it’s something other than just playing? The context doesn’t really help either… I keep seeing it in completely random places.

Oh, and I can’t see the bloody illusion

By: bassmanpete

bassmanpete — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:41:36 +0000

Sat looking at the screen for a couple of minutes but couldn’t make it change. My wife came & stood behind me, I asked which direction the image was spinning, she said ‘anti-clockwise.’ I stood up & immediately saw it spinning anti-clockwise but couldn’t make it go clockwise again until I sat down. So for me, changing my distance from the screen seems to help.

By: slang

slang — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:00:04 +0000

“One of my favorites is the in-out illusion, where your brain canâ€™t tell if something is convex or concave. Itâ€™s maddening, and fun.”

Not fun, just maddening, when it happens when looking at crater pictures and you just can’t get your brain to make it look ‘right’ (assuming this is the same illusion you refer to)

By: Harold

Harold — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:12:10 +0000

OK, now I see it! I scrolled so the only part of the image on my screen was the foot.

By: Harold

Harold — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:41:13 +0000

When, Lord, when? When will I see the sailboat?

I’ve given it a few dozen whirls, and I’m still not seeing it. But I do see it all the time in rotating coin images on TV – that’s always weird, when the coin’s edge starts to appear from an unexpected direction.

Conjunction of Venus and Saturn tonight! I think. Better to make a fool of myself yelling this out than to keep it to myself and have someone miss it.

By: Tim G

Tim G — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:12:26 +0000

Looks like there's 34 frames.