This animation was on my laptop for quite some time. I had it for almost a year. Today anonymous user submitted me this gif version, and when I opened it, only then I realized how great this illusion actually is. If you look at the spinning girl’s silhouette below, you will think it is spinning clockwise, probably. When you check her shadow below, momentarily the spinning direction changes in your mind, and now the girl is spinning counter-clockwise. It can be quite hard at the beginning to notice switch of the spinning direction, but eventually you’ll manage. I posted more simple illusion of this kind while ago, and you can see it here. Now, be honest – how long did it take you to see it spin in both directions? Not as easy as the hidden tiger, ayeh? I lost the link to the original artist, but best I could come up with is the place I found it on.
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this really is an illusion, it isn’t made 2 move a certain way. because the silhouette is all black, and because there are no lines that tell which leg is which, your mind chooses whether it is spinning clockwise or anit-clockwise. most people should be able 2 change the direction. it helps if u imagine the leg is in front or behind. you can even make the straight leg go in 1 direction and the rest of her body go in the other! i did it! accidently though.
I found all 6 F’s the first time I read it. Same with the “the’s” in the first triangle.
I can also make the “spinning” girl go whichever way I want. I can even make it so she never turns around.
I’ve never had my IQ tested but all throughout school I’ve been labeled as “advanced.”
I’m not bragging about this, just sharing. I find the mind very fascinating. I would like to know if anyone else can choose which side of their brain to use while watching the girl animation.
I was watching the star wars episode of family guy when i saw a similar illusion (the scene when they are looking at the Death Star Plans)
i made a more primitive version of this if you look at the small circle it rotates one way if you look at the big one it will rotate the other way but in reality they are just moving left and right and increasing/decreasing in scale.
http://www.glossygames.com/sphere.html
i originally got this by looking at her supporting heel… made it easier…
eventually i could make her go one way then the other after about 1-2 spins… like a dance…
then i even fuzzed my eyes so that her top half went one way and the bottom went the other… it was seriously weird!… try it :D
Focus on her toes.
When her toes point to the furthest direction away from middle of the picture(left or right), quickly move your vision to the shadow’s heel. Then just..turn it around.
when you look at the script above and while only upper half of the spinning girl visible, you’ll notice that she starts to spin in the other direction
I see it only rottating in one direction. nothing works. still the same. clockwise. no illusion for me.
It’s quite impossible for me. I wonder how that happens. Are there anymore like that?
PS: I’m getting giddy!
well i could see it every time the legs cross over then u could switch it the, but nice illusion
I can’t believe it ….it’s fantastic!
WICKED!! i can make it go back and forth really quickly!!! neat one!! you should have more like it!
I cant focus on anything else but her nips.
It took me 6 minutes to make her spin the other way! I finally made her spin counter clockwise by staring at her feet.
that’s not an optical illusion. The figure switches periodically regardless of what you look at. Don’t believe me? Hide part of the picture and watch.
Great illusion! Took me forever to get, but I didn’t just jump on here and call it fake like all these morons.
Hi…
There are 3 ways to see this image:
1. clockwise
2. anti-clockwise
3. goïng from the left 2 the right (from the back AND front)
Those who think the gif change are maby frustrated about not seeïng this!
I see them all, allthough the last one is difficult! (you have 2 switch verry fast clock and anti-clockwhise)
Greets
wow magic!
Thats strange its like we can control it with our eyes!
It’s rare because when I looked at her I ‘ve seen it spinning counter-clockwise first whereas you article states that she is spinning clockwise…. It’s after a while then I could see her spinning clockwise….
someone fwded a mail that said if you see the girl spin clockwise you’re using the right side of the brain and left for counter-clockwise rotation. Any truth to this or just nonsense? thanks
I can make her kick :P
its easy…
just cover the upper body to see it anti-clockwise.
Thought it was a joke, kind of a hoax.
But it works ! I got it focusing on the shadow of her foot. Great !
She’s rotating CLOCKWISE. Those who see diferent – are in inlussion, i opened GIF wit animator so i see all 34 frames -and all images she is rotating CLOCKWISE :) That’s why i never saw she’s rotating anti-clockwise :)
I’ve seen this kind of illusion before..
And now, it took me, about 15 secs, to change her direction and make her go back and forth : )
I looked at the top right corner and saw her switch directions then I looked at the photo and she switch again.I also looked at her leg and she would switch directions sometimes.
the top is spinning clockwise whit the bottom is spinnin counter clockwise… enough to make me dizzy… lol
cool
Everyone is saying they changed the movement by looking at the legs…I changeed it by looking at the head. Anyone else?
THIS IS AN ILLUSION.
THE ANIMATION DOES NOT CHANGE.
IT IS ONLY 34 FRAMES LONG.
TEST IT YOURSELF.
IF YOU BELIEVE IT’S JAVASCRIPT CHANGING THE IMAGE, RIGHT CLICK AND VIEW THE IMAGE IN IT’S OWN WINDOW.
IF YOU BELIEVE THIS ILLUSION IS FAKE AND NOT A TRUE ILLUSION:
YOU. ARE. WRONG.
Great illusion. Everyone who doesn’t believe it is just experiencing such a strong level of cognitive dissonance (thinking “there’s no way this can be real so it has to be a trick”) that they have to try and discredit it.
Sad.
one word…
…FAKE
Lol this took me SO long to get. I originally saw it months ago and could not get to go any other direction than counter, but now i can get it to change relatively quickly. hard though.
If you look at her top torso area (neck breast and lower chest, the arms will seem to move in a different direction or switch arms. It’s a very easy way to change her direction.
when you look away you can’t judge whether the leg is behind or in front of the other one. Hard to work the rest out, though.
I think that there is nothing doing with the leg, follow the girl carefully and notice, that the girl really changes the way herself, not your eyes.
It’s an illusion, I can’t believe that so many in here calling other people stupid while they are not really know what’s going on.
Because it’s a silhouette, you can’t tell if she’s pointing the leg at you or toward the other direction.
To make it a bit easier to understand, let’s make the animation has only 4 frames.
first frame: leg’s pointing toward you.
Second frame: leg’s pointing to the right.
Third frame: leg’s pointing toward the other direction.
fourth frame: leg’s pointing to the left.
Now if you perceive the frame going in this order, it’s counter clockwise, but since you can not tell the difference between frame 1 and frame 3, and if you think frame 3 is when the leg is pointing toward you, then frame 4 it’s pointing to the left (as it should) then isn’t this where she’s turning clockwise?
If you still don’t understand, read it slowly, and imagine the four frames animation again, you will see why it’s an excellent illusion.
To anyone who is convinced that this is an illusion: WRONG
Even if the gif file shows the image running in a linear fashion, the fact is that the image does switch directions. It has nothing to do with your mind. There is some king of script enabled that is reversing the frame sequence at random intervals.
nice tits
For me, she starts out spinning counter-clockwise, and spins clockwise if I focus on her leg for a bit. After about 20 seconds IO gain the ability to switch her direction merely by blinking.
It took me a few minutes.
It’s amazing once you see it though!
THIS is simple!:
The girl can change in ONE second! (back and forth)
Its a “blackout” -theorie
-look NOT DIRECTLY on the dancing girl – look AT THE SIDE. (monitor)
when you look at side- you look in same time to the girl.
then you can see her going back and forth IN SECONDS !
she is making a HALF-circle. back and forth.
when her legs are crossing.
(im a little dumb child and i cannot write in english…sry)
♀
her leg is going left to right moving back and forth infront of the back one, she never spins its just the top part and the foot that does, her leg however just swings left to right
but it one frame it quickly jumps back so it looks like her foots going right round the back one when its not its just resetting at the right
dude… she doesnt hav a shirt on… u can tell whenever she spins
Even if this image were based on a photograph of a real person spinning in one particular direction, it is now simply a 2 dimensional silhouette
If, in one frame, the silhouette can be seen either as 1) a woman with her right leg in the air (and in the context of the animation turning clockwise) or 2) a woman with her left leg in the air (and in the context of the animation turning counterclockwise), than those two perceptions are equally valid.
Do you know the illusion that shows the silhouettes of two heads facing each other and the space between the two faces is the profile of a vase? To say that one of the 2 perceptions of the woman that I mention above is real, while the other is an illusion, is like saying the faces are real, and the vase is an illusion, or vice versa. Neither of those things is true, both perceptions are equally valid, they both exist at the same time.
As far as viewing the 34 frames individually, they can be perceived as rotating either way just as the animation can.
People that can’t see both sides of the illusion and therefore assert that she is “really” only rotating in one direction (therefore indirectly accusing everyone who can see her rotating in both directions of some kind of stupidity or gullibility) are insecure or arrogant or both.
Try blinking your eyes really fast, she does a really cool dance :)
Hehe, this is a neat illusion! I can’t seem to get the girl to switch directions, but I have the same effect if I stare at a ceiling fan long enough :)
at first i saw it counter-clockwise. then i read an explanation and i hardly could understand how can anybody see it rotating clockwise. it took me awhile, but eventually i managed to see it. and it’s cool, but not much.
Anonymous
May 1, 2009 at 5:43 pm
To anyone who is convinced that this is an illusion: WRONG
Even if the gif file shows the image running in a linear fashion, the fact is that the image does switch directions. It has nothing to do with your mind. There is some king of script enabled that is reversing the frame sequence at random intervals.
I agree with u
thats what i thought the first time
because my laptop is so shitty, i can see the script change it
my laptop is so bad that it lags when she changes directions..
in other words, this isnt a mind illusion, but the person who made it is fooling everyone into thinking it is.
whnen my laptop lags, she changes direction
Amazing ;D!
My teacher showed us this at a lesson and now I find it back here!
I see it most of the time spinning clockwise, but if I focus on her foot I can see it anti-clockwise… I can’t seem to get it back clockwise however…
At first I thought she was gong counter-clockwise. Getting her to ‘go’ clockwise is again is much harder..