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Take A Look at Your Brain (Not Literally!)
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THE Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.
Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe
RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking
If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.
Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe
RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking
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Does it go clockwise or counterclockwise for you?
It goes both ways for me, at first i thought it was on a timer.
What site is this from?
so yeah, a right sided brain for me then
I saw it on this site http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html
Same here! I'm trying so hard to see it the other way! Must be part brain dead
Makes sense. I definatly don't do logic, math science or details!
How long did you guys look at it?
is she not pivoting on her left leg and swinging her right leg clockwise. don't know how you can see it any other way!
me neither - it wouldnt look right if she was going the other way
But yeah, I'm definately a right side brain functioner.
The animation has to have at least 4 frames, right? I think it has more, but let's say four for simplicity. Let's say that these frames are <, ^, > and V.
To make it look like it's moving, these frames need to be placed in an order. To make it look like it's spinning, there are only two orders possible: < ^ > V and < V > ^. Which means it either goes one way or the other.
The only way that it would look like it could be both ways is if two opposite frames of these were ambiguous. i.e. if either < and > or ^ and V looked the same. And they don't.
Can someone tell me where I'm wrong?
EDIT: Another way to do it would be if it moved faster than the eye can see, which means that between two frames that we "see" it has made at least or almost a full spin already. Which might be what happens actually, but in that case concentration shouldn't change anything...
EDIT 2: The reflection seems strange. We should be able to see the raised leg's reflection when it's pointing away from us, but it apperars when the dancer is facing us.
EDIT 3: Having said all that, while at first it was obviously moving anti-cw to me, now I can only see it moving cw.
I'm putting two of these here. It's for an "experiment"...
same! - so yerascrote, you're not the only one.