right brain vs left

Funny, I would figure near Australia everything would rotate backwards!

Anti-clockwise, and I really can't imagine her spinning the other way...and yes it works in Firefox :P

EDIT: Oh wait WTF!? I just loaded the page again and she's going the other way!

Okay looks like Anticlockwise again. Either this is a joke page with randomly changing directions to mess with your head, it's actually a depth perception trick, or I'm a total psycho.

SVreX wrote: Focus hard on the reading. Look at her only through you peripheral vision. Switched for me, but no way I can get it to do it as easy as EastCoastMojo (must be a guy thing!)

If I had to guess I would say that I am wired backwards. I am one of those people that when I play video games I have to invert the joystick control or I spend the whole time staring at the sky or my feet. I absolutely cannot adapt to the default setup. However, invert those controls and I'm off like a rocket. I must have a lucas switch in me somewhere.

I have to invert the joystick control whenever I play a FPS on a console. But I blame that one being a pilot. I'm not pushing the stick "up" I'm pushing it forward. If the stick goes forward the system should pitch nose-down.

I do the same thing. The only FPS that feels natural without inverted controls is Metroid Prime Hunters on the DS, and in that game you slide your thumb over the screen to control your aim.

Cool, so I'm not as backwards as I thought, or maybe I am but at least I am in good company.

I was showing a co-worker the dancer and this time she would not spin for me for a full resolution, she would alternate back and forth. When her toe would point to the side she would change direction and go back. LOL I am develpoing a resistance!

:)... yes it's a marvelous waste of time... when i 1st saw it i couldn't imagine it spinning the other direction...

is whats real fun is if you have kids ask them... don't tell them what it's about just ask... i know with my 3 and 5 y/o i guess right on what direction they would see it bases on their personalities...

B00B3333ZZZZ!!11!!1!!11

Apparently this is a Poser character named Jane. My IT guy does 3D anamation stuff on the side and he recognized her right off. Also, you cannot turn off the hard nipple function.

I thought you guys would like to know that

anti clockwise, I was watching it and kept thinking she's gona fall

Here's the image by itself if you want to test other people:

http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5675247,00.gif

Right Brain: I see nips.

Left Brain: Those nips are as big as a pixel.

I'm steadfastly righthanded, and she definitely turned clockwise for me at first and I couldn't get her to switch. After 20 seconds I tried closing my left eye and she began rotating counterclockwise.. but as soon as I looked again I could see how it seems to work. If I focus on her feet when they cross, she'll move any way I want

Try it

clockwise.... no matter what I do, she's spinning clockwise.

Looks like it's just an optical illusion, not a real test: http://scienceline.org/2007/10/29/ask-hsu-spinning-girl-right-left-brain-hemispheres/

So what does the spinning dancer tell us? The whole test is more of an optical illusion than anything else, according to Steven Novella, an academic clinical neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine who blogs on NeuroLogica. When our brains process visual images to make some order or sense of the world, they have to make assumptions. The dancer is just a two dimensional image switching back and forth, but our brains process it as a three dimensional spinning object.

-Rob

i saw that biatch spin clockwise at first, read both columns then saw her spinning counter clock. This concludes my theory that I discussed with a few of my classmates today that I'm just retarded and neither right or left brained.

GameboyRMH wrote: Either this is a joke page with randomly changing directions to mess with your head, it's actually a depth perception trick, or I'm a total psycho.

Ha I was right

GameboyRMH wrote:

GameboyRMH wrote: Either this is a joke page with randomly changing directions to mess with your head, it's actually a depth perception trick, or I'm a total psycho.

Ha I was right

I'm going to say you were right on more than one count, but you'll understand if I don't say which ones.

rob_lewis wrote: Looks like it's just an optical illusion, not a real test: http://scienceline.org/2007/10/29/ask-hsu-spinning-girl-right-left-brain-hemispheres/ So what does the spinning dancer tell us? The whole test is more of an optical illusion than anything else, according to Steven Novella, an academic clinical neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine who blogs on NeuroLogica. When our brains process visual images to make some order or sense of the world, they have to make assumptions. The dancer is just a two dimensional image switching back and forth, but our brains process it as a three dimensional spinning object. -Rob

Its more than 2 images flipping back and forth. On the wifes mac the image stops anytime I click on my bookmarks tab. Using that to stop it ive counted at least 6 seperate images that progress in a rotary fashion.

She swings both ways for me

clockwise by default, but if i focus on the hands or legs, i can get her to spin counter clockwise. Confirms that aesthetics comes more easily than the math to me.

Just curious, how many of us are ambidextrous to some degree?

I was left handed by nature, but both my teachers and my mum encouraged me to use my right hand for writing. I still find that I use my left for more things than most righties do, and I wear my watch on my right wrist as well, like most lefties I have met. I can't write well with my left because I don't practice, but I can paint, sand and wrench with my left pretty much interchangeably. I am left eye dominant also.

I post this here because I thought it might be an interesting tie-in to the right vs. left brain thing.

mostly clockwise for me, but about a third of the time it reverses to clockwise...i am left handed, and favor the the left hand, but i shoot right handed better..