Saturday, October 13, 2007

O Body Swayed to Music, O Brightening Glance...

Thanks - I think - to David Mackinder for sending me this. Apparently if you see the dancer spinning clockwise then the right side of your brain - feeling imagination etc - predominates; if you see her spinning anti-clockwise the the left side - logical, realistic - is on top. She span clockwise for me at first, then anti-clockwise, then clockwise again. The changes were so extreme that her movements were actually rigged. I must be confused. How can we know the dancer from the dance?

10 comments:

  1. that's strange because it was definitely spinning one way, then I remembered I had to watch the time as I have an appointment, and when I looked back it was spinning t'other way (clockwise), and I couldn't get it to change. what does it mean, professor?

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  2. ah, for you too (I clicked before reading on). what a waste of time.

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  3. I can't make it go theother way. Proves that I am extremely logical, I guess. Either that or narrow-minded.

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  4. oh, now it's stopped altogether!

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  5. And here I'd been thinking I was so imaginative and big-picture oriented, then I looked at her: Anti-clockwise! Dag.

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  6. It seems that I'm very clockwise unless I look at it out of the corner of my eye and then it just looked like Lord Jeff.

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  7. Predictably and only clockwise for me. What's sad is that i couldn't make it go the other way, or even imagine how anyone could perceive it as anti-clockwise - which probably accounts for my stunning inability to get a non-temp job or tie my shoelaces so they stay tied.

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  8. I've found that looking only at the shadows for a moment helps you change the direction. Which side of the brain tries to cheat I wonder.

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  9. It looks like a rigged animated gif to me and nothing to do with the observer - a while one way, then an abrupt change to the other way, then back again, etc. I wonder which side of our brain we use when reading web pages, the credulous side or the sceptical side?

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  10. i had it going clockwise...then tilted my head and it turned the other way - i thought it was good....but when i did it a few times my eyes felt a little dizzy!!

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