Looks to me like she's falling over backwards, not spinning. It is in a pose that is unnatural for anything, especially spinning. The only thing that is true I see here is that it is an optical illusion, I can't tell if she is falling towards me or away.
Hmm. Noticed that it's possible to 'reverse' the perception of direction by allowing the image to float off into the peripheral vision. Got it to 'switch' directions twice doing so.
Hmm. Noticed that it's possible to 'reverse' the perception of direction by allowing the image to float off into the peripheral vision. Got it to 'switch' directions twice doing so.
If you look to the opposite side, relative to her foot, of the box just as her foot reaches the closest point to either side, she'll rotate back and forth, but never around in a circle.
I was also noticing that if you watch the toe of the grounded foot and imagine that the toe is pointing away from you at all times moving from right to left and back again, you can watch her pivot back and forth rather than spinning.
People are awfully willing to accept "gods in the gaps" arguments (ie you didn't prove it's not true so it must be 100% true). I'd say proving the obvious has so real merit, not like it costs millions of dollars or anything.
It seems to me that only 24 people is a very small sample, and then when they said "most often" the error starts to become pretty large. I'd say this is a useless study, both in scope and result.
"Thus, the viewing angle causes the difference in perception"...Utter Rubbish. I agree the direction one sees the image spinning has little if anything to do with left-right brain biases and other popular myths but find the contention that viewing angle has anything to do with it equally ridiculous ie total rubbish. I see the image rotating in either direction and do not change viewing angle to do so and do not subjectively see any change in viewing angle.
The only viewing angle anomaly that I can see is when the image is viewed at an angle beyond the blind spot (eg left of the left blind spot). In this case no rotation is seen ~ the image is not interpreted as rotating so the image is seen as it actually is (pre-interpretation ~ if anything it looks like she's skating
The reactions and comments for this article are almost a personality test example. Does anyone know of a classification system to place each commenter into an archetype?
I don't think the solution is quite as obvious as the angle. . . It makes sense that looking down or up at the picture has an effect as described. BUT, that doesn't explain variations in perception for the ambiguous angles. Does everyones perception shift at exactly a specific angle above or below horizontal with the eyes? if so does turning the body upside down or leaning forward or backward significantly affect the angle of ambiguity? Slumped over or sitting up strait?
I think there could be some practical applications to identifying all factors that can affect perception. There's also an expectation bias and other things going on so once a precise understanding of the angle of ambiguity and a graph of nearby angles and probability of perception A or B is determined. . . Then you can precisely measure the expectation bias. Having a quantitive understanding of the expectation bias could be very valuable. Think stock markets if you're a competitive money person, think overcoming skepticism about global warming if you want a more cooperative example of how this could be useful info.
I watched the video several times. I see all three images starting off spinning clockwise when viewed from above. When the right image lights up, it spins counter-clockwise while the other two don't change. Does anyone else see it this way?
(The school psycologist) gives me a chocolate Easter bunny. And this shows how tricky those guys are. I eat the chocolate and I think, wait a second... this isn't around Easter.
"Was this a test?"
He said, "Yes."
"And what does it mean?"
He said, "Well, had you eaten the ears first you would have been normal; had you eaten the feet first you would have had an inferiority complex; had you eaten the tail first you would have had latent homosexual tendencies; and had you eaten the breasts first you would have had a latent oedipal complex."
I said, "Well, go on. What does it mean when you bite out the eyes and scream, 'Stop staring at me!'?"
In the still image, she, in no way, appears to be rotating. To me, it looks like she's walking away with her left foot on the ground.
Also, the caption of the image and the video disagree with each other regarding which foot on the ground signifies which direction of rotation.
In the still, my mind made its determination based on what appears to be perspective. The lifted foot appears to be smaller, therefore, further away. Also the hand and ARM sizes didn't look right for an on-coming direction.
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Dec 21, 2010/sarcasm