Comments on: Which way is the girl spinning?

By: gaby

gaby — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:53:37 +0000

The illusion occurs because of trying to look at the whole picture at the same time. If you look at one point on the picture, perhaps a toe or a finger, it becomes very easy to see the picture is spinning counterclockwise.

It’s a good illusion, and shows us how sometimes we get the wrong view if we try to look at too much at one time.

By: Giovanni M

Giovanni M — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:45:13 +0000

this has nothing to do with ur brain
just look at the opposite side of her outer leg and u;ll see her spin that way
u decide where u want to see her spin by looking at the opposite side,
if u follow her foot she wont’ never stop spinning

By: Hari Jayaram

Hari Jayaram — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:53:10 +0000

Well I could get her to spin anti-clockwise only once. But I cannot manage it again. She is otherwise always clockwise..and I never did apply to MIT and am quite certain I wouldnt have made the cut

By: Tonya

Tonya — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:44:50 +0000

well, i do have a few pairs of birks, merrells, etc…..she is predominantly clockwise for me, but i could get her to switch after a few seconds. for bill she was counter-clockwise for quite some time until he saw her switch. interestingly, drew looked and said, this way, no , that way, now shes back going this way…hey what’s going on? So is he bound for Birks and Warren Wilson College or MIT?? Or all three??

By: JMike

JMike — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:04:02 +0000

I read to the sentence “the question is very simple…” then I looked at the picture and saw it unambiguously clockwise. Then I looked away and looked back and saw it counter-clockwise. Then I read further down your text and saw that you’d had the same experience. Then I read your question could I will it to go either way on demand, so I willed it to go either way on demand.

There’s a strange transition between seeing-her-clockwise and seeing-her-counterclockwise where she looks like a flat figure undergoing a purely two dimensional transformation.

–JMike
p.s. hubba hubba