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Geek Culture / Left or Right side of the brain?

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Van B
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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 14:43
Check this one out:

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22535838-5012895,00.html

Apparantly this woman rotates anti-clockwise for most people, I see her rotate clockwise - so post what way she turns for you just so I know it's legit, personally I can't figure out how she could appear to turn any other way!.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 14:46
Clockwise...I can't see how it works the other way either.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 14:46
Clockwise.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 14:47 Edited at: 11th Oct 2007 14:48
Theres something fruity going on here, if i concentrate on the foot she starts going anti-clockwise!
[edit] Now shes gone clockwise!
[edit again]Nop, now anti-clockwise...crazy!

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 14:50 Edited at: 11th Oct 2007 14:53
Same here.. strange! If you concentrate you can switch directions every 180° or so, very odd.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 14:54
co.. i mean, clockwise


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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 14:54
I can shift pretty much at will by focusing on her foot, although my first reaction was anti-clockwise.

Yeah, now I can shift in less then a second.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 14:55 Edited at: 11th Oct 2007 14:59
Clockwise
Im also Left-Handed
And judging by this
Quote: "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"

im more left side :S

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 14:59
Clockwise.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 15:01
omg ive been starting at this for about 5min and i cant see her going anti.....my eyes hurt

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 15:03
I doubt this is a good method for defining which side of your brain you prefer. Also the functions listed is mixed in most people.

For example there are people who uses feeling but are detail oriented and vice versa. If you know a little about Meyers-Briggs or Keirsays theories then you know those lists doesn't really reflect the reality.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 15:03
Hah. Cool. Yeah, I can make her not rotate at all (just move leg left to right etc) if I concentrate.

Seen this one? Look at faces from seat in front of computer then get up and move about 12 foot back and the faces swap. Probably something to do with overlap between your eyes, but is cool none the less.



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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 15:05
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That one is cool!

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 15:05
AAAHHHHH!!!
thats freaky. Shame my room isnt that big but i could almost do a full swap.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 15:06 Edited at: 11th Oct 2007 15:08
Yeah, although it seemed to work better on my email where the images are a bit smaller. Hmmm. Must be resolution dependant and I'm at 1600x1200. Probably worth mucking around with.

Oh come to think of it then, lotsofsmoke, try making the piccies smaller perhaps?. Just tried with IE7 at 75% and was a fair bit better.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 15:07
well i could only go back about 2.5m b4 i hit a wall, but it almost worked from there fully. Still....who has a 12f long room?

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 15:07 Edited at: 11th Oct 2007 15:09
Man that left bird is so fit.

And I of course mean the one with the messed up face.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 15:08
Making the image smaller works.

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She becomes fitter. Is like beer goggles...

Anyone got that old one of a black and white photo that becomes full colour for a while until your concentration breaks and it flips back to B&W? Good stuff that one.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 15:10
I did 75% in IE7 and was a lot better. Am using 1600x1200 though.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 15:10 Edited at: 11th Oct 2007 15:11
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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 15:11 Edited at: 11th Oct 2007 15:11
I scaled it to 30%, though it depends on your resolution. Just experiment.

God that is one gorgeous 3rd degree burns victim. Don't think much of the other one.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 15:15
Quote: "Still....who has a 12f long room?"


Well my room is 18 feet long, but my computer is in the middle of the room so i could only back off about 8 feet. Still worked to an extent though.

I tried to concentrate but i have a very hard time ever imagining that thing going anti-clockwise. Doesn't seem feasible.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 15:17
You have to look at the leg and just make yourself think it's going the other way, then you won't be able to see it going clockwise at all.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 15:18
^That's the thing, i did just that. I can't see it going any other way.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 15:18
Quote: "I tried to concentrate but i have a very hard time ever imagining that thing going anti-clockwise. Doesn't seem feasible"
Yeah, I thought that. But after a bit suddenly it starts going anticlockwise. I was going to download the GIF to check each frame just incase is a fraud, but after a while I could "control" her and make it go either way when I wanted, and even not rotate at all.

Unless it is a very clever method of making you think that. You know a bit like Deja Vu. So you think you wanted to go anti-clockwise, but only because a split second before the other side of your brain saw it happen. Could be. Good if someone checked the frames as I am now annoyingly busy...

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 15:19
She is actually turning clockwise - check the reflection at the bottom.

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Quote: "check the reflection at the bottom"
Reflection looks anti-clockwise to me when she is turning anti-clockwise.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 15:24
try this test
http://www.testcafe.com/lbrb/

i got this
Your percentage score for the right brain is 63%.
Your percentage score for the left brain is 37%.

explains y im left handed

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 15:26
The moment I saw "9) I prefer to listen to rock music. " I instantly knew that test was nonsense.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 15:27
lol it also asks 1 or 2 questions twice, but still...its ok i guess, we cant really know how to brain works 100%

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 15:32 Edited at: 11th Oct 2007 15:34
Quote: "Your percentage score for the right brain is 52%.
Your percentage score for the left brain is 48%."


hmmm, i don't trust that test very much. If that score is correct, shouldn't i in theory get the "dancer" to move anti-clockwise?

Edit: It's interesting though, the smiliar test i took on facebook, i got 53% right and 47% left.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 15:34 Edited at: 11th Oct 2007 15:38
i dont really trust either of the tests
but for my sake it seams both tests go hand in hand with each other, both saying that i use my right side more

and also, me being in a band also shows in more Right, and i throw and right left handed but i bat in cricket right handed....????

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I got:-
Your percentage score for the right brain is 61%.
Your percentage score for the left brain is 39%.

Doesn't help me much. I just like multichoice quizzes about myself...

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I saw her going clock-wise first for the longest time, I got her to shift to anti, but couldn't get her to shift back for a time, now she's going clockwise again, LOL.

Also took that quiz and got

57% right
43% left

I'd say it's pretty accurate aside from the fact that I can't really use my left hand for much of anything.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 16:36
clockwise first, then as I read some of the text she seemed to flip directions to anti-clockwise. this happened a couple of times. All I can say really is FLIP THE NORMALS

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YAY i finally got her to go anti

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i dont think the spinning test proves it, because you can change the direction...

but for the test one, i got 50-50, which is what i expected

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You can turn it because you can still use the other half of your brain. However, you will in theory see it spinning clockwise first if you are right brained as your dominant side of the brain analyzes it first.

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Your percentage score for the right brain is 54%.
Your percentage score for the left brain is 46%.

I am strong using a mix of functions from both lists.

Again, dividing people in two like this isn't a perfect science. Both Meyers-Briggs' and Keirsey's systems devide people into 16 personalty types and these usually describes people very accurate. MBTI is the most well known personality type test in the world (and quite expensive to take).

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 18:48
Okay I found this Illusion... It really makes you wonder.

what can you see?

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Deathead:
Exept for the portrait I can see an old man with a cane and a woman with a child and a dead dog(?).

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I see an octopus, a midget with wings, a woman carrying hay, a dragon, and the titanic.

This is apart from the obvious crow, arch, road, and tornado.

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On the right, just above the arch is a face; directly opposite it on the left side is another face, but very faint. There is also an outline of another face slightly to the right of it. I can see what DA can see, but I can't see an octopus, a midget with wings, a dragon, or the titanic (or the tornado)

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 19:18
don't forget the weeping willow tree in the background
These are cool, The girl seemed to be turning anti-clockwise to me and I stared at it hard and *pop* she changed direction, but what's weird is now if I load it up again I still see her turning clockwise
I find looking at the standing foot is the easiest way to flip it.
Anyone else notice the nipples?

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Quote: "I can see what DA can see, but I can't see an octopus, a midget with wings, a dragon, or the titanic (or the tornado)"

Sorry man, not all of us have the nack (the TGC member) for it.

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@BatVink
how would looking at the reflection help?
That's the exact same illusion

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Quote: "Anyone else notice the nipples?"

yes - flip the normals I say

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Erm.. I saw anti-clockwise at first, looked away for a second then looked back and saw clockwise

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