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Which way does the lady turn?
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Droopy
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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For me she started out turning clockwise, and does that most of the time, but she's also turning anti-clockwise in between.
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Frank
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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Ok I'm confused. When the page first loaded I saw her turning clockwise but after looking at the descriptions I am definitely a left-brained person. I was able to get her to switch direction without too much hassle though.
Very interesting Droopy thanks for sharing. I'm off to check myself into the loony bin 
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zuzu's petals
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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I guess the left side of my brain must be off on holiday, 
Not only did I see her turning distinctly clockwise,
 but I couldn't even fathom how to get her to change direction.
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redrose
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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Very interesting. I have to say, she only turned clockwise for me. I can't figure out how to get her to turn counter-clockwise. Maybe I'm just closed minded.  Fascinating, none the less!
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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She turned clockwise most of the time for me, but I found that if I looked at something else besides her then she would change direction.
So do you figure that the picture is set to randomly change directions at random intervals??
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Frank
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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| toni wrote: | | So do you figure that the picture is set to randomly change directions at random intervals?? |
Nope the animation never changes, it's an optical illusion. Like the mask illusion.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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Okay, I figured out how to get her spinning in the opposite direction. What a relief! I was actually worried that I couldn't activate the left side of my brain.
I looked at her shadow. Her shadow on the ground makes it look like she's going counter (anti) clockwise. When I looked back up at her, wham, she was spinning counter clockwise.
After concentrating long enough and telling myself she was spinning clockwise again, I got it to switch. Wierd!
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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I can see her spinning one way, blink and she is spinning the other way. When considering the descriptions of left and right brained, I fall somewhere in between. Enough about spinning, how can I meet her?
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zuzu's petals
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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 URG! I've watched her and watched her shadow,
I've looked away and looked back,
I've squinted, and watched with one eye closed . . .
but, still she turns clockwise . . . she's relentless!
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petunia
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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she first was spinning clockwise, then counterclockwise then after a while clockwise again. wow what an illusion.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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I only saw her moving counter-clockwise o_O Couldnt make her change direction ^^
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| Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 12:46 am Post subject: |
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She started spinning in an anti-clockwise direction for me but quickly changed to clockwise. Now she's turning from one to the other!! Guess both sides of my brain are still working then - despite my age.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 7:31 am Post subject: |
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| Calomaar wrote: | | Enough about spinning, how can I meet her? |
Do you want her spinning in your garden? 
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:52 am Post subject: |
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This was bizarre - at first she was counter-clockwise and I was thinking "how could she change, it's obvious she's going counter..." and *zap* she was going the other way! I thought there was a trick to it at first, like they were randomly switching her or something... but I got her to change directions a couple times. Wild.
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