Once again Mighty Optical Illusions website proudly brings new optical illusion that hopefully will become as famous as the Spinning Girl did in the past. Remember when we first posted Spinning Girl illusion, it was later reposted on all the famous websites across the internet. The artwork was created by Peter ‘Def’ Oksbjerre, and the flash work was enhanced by Miguel Ortiz, and later by Anthony J. Foreman. The author’s website can be found at defcon2.dk I thank all three of you guys for your time. Now the illusion works like this: watch the spinning man, and you’ll see him spin in one direction, but as soon as he rotates for 180 degrees, you’ll see the switch in the direction of his movement, and he will spin differently. Let’s see how long does it take for big websites to find this illusion and write about it. Remember, to see the freshest optical illusion on your PC desktop, Mac dashboard, iGoogle or Facebook profile, add the appropriate application. You can find them all at the top of the sidebar.
Let’s give the author (Peter) opportunity to explain it himself: “Hi, Love your site. I was playing around with some particle-systems and depth-maps in AfterEffects and suddenly this guy showed up. I like how his legs get totally twisted in the middle of the spin. It works with the same principles as the Einstein and Chaplin-masks where you see the inside but it looks like the outside.”
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Naaah the legs look unreal… :(
for me he goes 270 degrees clockwise then 90 degrees counter clockwise
This is just like the spinning silhouette optical illusion
(http://www.moillusions.com/2007/06/spinning-sihouette-optical-illusion.html)
It’s also cool, check it out.
I always see the man looking at me. Turns 180 degrees, then 180 in another, etc.
keep an eye on his legs ;
they seem to be altering as he is turning 180 degrees.
Ahhh! I think it’s one of those illusions with the… it’s hard to explain, but it’s like a mask and when you turn it around it looks like it’s still protruding out, even though… Oh, how do I explain? There was a Tutankhamen Mask illusion like that…
Grr
The Spinning Man is lacking an important part. ;D
meh. seen it before
Holy Crap!!! I made it look like his arms are going one way and his legs are going the other?! You just need to concentrate very hard. Brilliant website btw.
The dancing girl is better, this one looks like his other leg is suddenly 30cm shorter than the other one.. lol
AAAAAAAAAAH! IF I BLINK HE CHANGES DIRECTIONS! D:
Legs should be changed to look more realistic ! ANyway cool !
this is easy to esplain because we focuse on features suh as the face (oneout of a few areas) when the face does a full circle we see through the face and the eyes in it’s concave form suddenly seem convex which creates the illusion that he had started turning the other way..
brilliant!
If you stare at his crotch, when he gets to the “switching” point, it looks like the legs are continuously rotating clockwise, while his upper body switches directions.
Wow that is soo cool! It looks as if he has no back
okay enough of your site for today… my eyes hate me enough as it is…