By Vurdlak on October 8, 2007, with 117 Comments
Hey everyone! While you are reading this, I’m probably on my student journey to Santorini and Kreta in Greece. This is some kind of excursion students in my country take at the end of their college. I’m still 2 years from finishing it, but can’t hurt to travel, right? This post was written before my trip and my brother activated it as I ordered him (he is the one responsible for Mighty Magic Tricks). Hope he doesn’t mess this, and correctly activates my optical illusion articles in the following days (VIX don’t ruin this site!)(Vix: buahaha!).
Concerning the illusion, the wheel on the left is classic optical illusion we’ve already seen in famous Spinning Girl Illusion. Basically, if you observe the wheel carefully, you can make it turn both ways. You’ll need some training, but after few minutes, you’ll be able to change the spinning direction very quickly!
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This is a great illusion – don’t look at it too long or you get dizzy!
I think I know how it’s done, but I won’t spoil the surprise so early in the posts.
if you look at the middle it just goes left right left right and it doesnt spin and if you look in the hut at the bottom it stops and bounces up and down
kool i made it turn both ways!!!
im not very good but i can make it work…
That is a great illusion. I can’t see how it works, but it is great.
WOW!Thats really clever! But I managed to turn the wheel both ways straight away.
hasn’t this illusion been posted before on this site?
anyway, thanks for bringing it back up again.. it’s one of my favourites.
i see it i see it!! at first it was just clockwise, but now it can go either way!
thats well cool, i have ‘trained’ myself, and can make it switch any to go any way, of course we know its only two frames alternating with the same time difference but none the less, still good.
I think I built one of those! Mine did not seem to turn both ways though!
Thats awsome!
really cool ilussion :)
up & down you look that what change the dirction
I find it easy to turn the wheel when you look at the purpe and blue area in the middle.
Incredible ! It turn both ways !
Sweet!
Lol that is weird
its a timed procedure… every (about) 30 seconds it changes directon
-Cody
(im finally first)
in this one we can actually change the direction if we concentrate. but on the girl one i think its just the animation changing direction. ima go check it fbf
wow, i like this one, i can actually do it, i couldn’t get the spinning girl to spin both ways! this one’s easier! cool. p.s. First Comment?!
When i blink it spins the other way!
Very cool illusion.
lame
no1ns there 2 activate comments 2 bad. this illusion is evrywer and evry1ns seen it, is this the best u could come up with?
MUHAHAHA! I am able to make it go both ways. My mind is all powerful. but no really this is a cool illusion. :-)
sabrina
Nice one, much easier to control than the spinning girl one though. Just took me a few secs to make this go in the desirable way.
It didn’t take me that long to get it to change, maybe 5 seconds after I read the article, maybe a little less or a little mor, point is, it was easy for me. I think that that is one of the best illusions on this site (that I’ve seen)
keep up the good work!!!
Oh, and Mighty Magic tricks is awesome too!!!!
Nice illusion! – but should it not be called a Ferris wheel, after the American guy who built the first large one?
it’s the illusion of an illusion…
tham
amazing illusion!!! I can change direction with my mind!
This one is ten times easier than the spinning woman one
all it takes for me to get it to change directions is to look at it through one eye, then change the eye i look through.
HEHE!! IT SPINS BOTH WAYS AT THE SAME TIME!@!
love this one! just flick your eyes to one side to make it go one way and vice versa…though if you stare at the centre of the wheel, you can see that it just kinda rocks back and forth =P
Awesome, I got it right away! Definitely one of my favorites!
it’s been done too many times to be cool any more!!!
P.S. First comment?
Vearrreee enterestink!
thats crazy.
To see it spin oposite, look away then relook at it. The illusion is two frames…. just offset. So if you catch the first frame on the left, you will see it going clockwise, and vise versa.
pretty cool, although i’ve seen this one before. it is actually just composed of just 2 frames.
this is actually very easy. what i did is close one eye at a time and it would spin to the opposite direction when i blinked
Very pretty! Easy to change direction, though: I just looked to the left, and suddenly it was turning counter-clockwise. Whichever side I’m looking at is moving downward. Does it work that way for others?
It is also just 2 pictures going back and forth
neat! i had to stare at the center for awhile to see if it was really an illusion or just a loop that changed directions occasionally…
Call me simple minded….but that is just the coolest illusion! ;o)
ok well to change the direction (atleast this way i can), you look at the Top right of the ferris wheel and you’ll see it spinning clock wise, if you look to the top left, you will see it spinning Counter Clock wise…
what?! that was amazing!
1st Comment!!!
I think it works because it’s just two pictures going back and forth. you acn do this with the lights that go around movie pictures at the movie theater.
It’s a FERRIS wheel. (not ferry)
Thats amazing. I can do magic with my own eyes!!!
do you have to have a widget to actually SEE the illusion? escape from the crimson room was the first one i ever saw.
well good
Hi. When I look wheel in the up side, it changes direction continuously, every 2-3 seconds!
I’m crazy?!!
(I’m sorry for grammatical errors, but I don’t speak english!!!).
Nice! It didn’t take me too long at all to be able to change the direction of the wheel. I looked at the center first and then followed one of the arms out to the side quickly, and then I was able to make it go backwards. (I obviously saw forwards first!)
Really bad, just look at the middle.. this is not a illuson :S
this one was easier to “manipulate” than the spinning girl illusion…
good one though.
MUCH EASIER TO CHANGE THAN THE SPINNING LADY
CAN DO THIS ONE AT WILL
I am a master!
this is one of the coolest illusions ever i love it to pieces. will there be any more similar to it because they are great!!
Wow this one is real. Thanks for not posting another fake one of these.
can make it go whichever, including switching constantly. Fun!
Have a nice trip!
Very good. Very simple.
1st comment!
Wicked illusion!
If you can’t make it spin both directions, try blinking … and “think” of it going the other way. Works like a charm.
I found this easier than the spinning ballerina one myself
Hehe.. I might have seen this one a little to many times but if you look in the middle it looks like it’s stuck (Cuz the animation itself is just 2 frames/pictures looping)
OMG this is true. In the start it took some concetration to make it change direction, but after i minute i could do i in a snap.
This illusion is cool
I didn’t get the one with the girl, but this is cool!
This is really cool. Looking at it, it spins either way.
i can make it go back and forth taht’s easy.
If you close your eyes, imagine it going the other way, it will.
If you close your eyes, imagine it getting “stuck” and wobbling back and forth, it will.
Pretty cool.
look at the middle, its just going back and forth quickly so it looks like its spinning
That’s rally cool. I got it before a few minutes. How about everyone else?
Ahhh Nyquist, good to know you still exist…
Isn’t it actually called… a Ferris Wheel…?
I did it! (1st)
thats sooooooo cool it really works
its obvious, fergy is fat thats what its about = )
ha, it makes my eyes hurt!
but for me it changes direction after i blink!?
I like this one! :-)
It a Ferris wheel, Not Ferry! Dont be dumb.
oohhh, ahhh….
I lokked in the center and saw that the center of the wheel was going back and forth, so it’s not going any direction.