The Amazing Rotating Sphere!

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 12-12-2006, 16:20

Originally Posted by Fragony

No it's not, why is it important? What does it tell about you?

Whether it first appears to be going left or right tells deep dark things about your soul. Or maybe it's just nifty. Hmm, maybe you'll agree that this one is amazing:

http://www.procreo.jp/labo/labo13.html

Same illusion, but with more nudity.

Originally Posted by doc_bean

right, damnit !

EDIT: weird, when I try to 'make' it go left I can only see two half orbs, each going in the opposite direction.

I only got it to do that once, couldn't repeat it.

**Sigurd** · 12-12-2006, 17:02

Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro

http://www.procreo.jp/labo/labo13.html

Same illusion, but with more nudity.

Can't make it go clockwise..
Maybe I am staring at the wrong attribute?

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 12-12-2006, 17:07

Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane

Can't make it go clockwise..
Maybe I am staring at the wrong attribute?

You have to stare at the legs :p

**Husar** · 12-12-2006, 17:24

Well, I can imagine it in both directions, with some concentration, I can make it switch direction...
And no, it's not some blue dots moving along a circle, it's some blue dots moving from the left to the right while becoming slower toward the ends of their specific route, the problem lies in the fact that they do not scale, with a real orb, the dots in the background would be smaller than those close to the viewer which our brain would then be able to interprete as left or right turning. I would call this some kind of optically disturbing moving pixel thing, the "sphere" exists only in out imagination because our brain gets fooled by the different speeds of the pixels....or...that's what I thought before I had a closer look, now I am certain that it is moving counterclockwise because the pixels moving from the left to the right spead out to the top and bottom, when moving from the right to the left, they get closer together because they are further away.

So in fact it's counterclockwise(looking from the top).

**Craterus** · 12-12-2006, 17:45

The sphere is going right (or anti-clockwise).

The rotating lady just seemed to switch about.. probably fixed.

**MSB** · 12-12-2006, 17:54

The sphere is actually two half spheres. One is moving clockwise, the other anti-clockwise. This creates the elusion of one sphere moving in two directions.

Is my hypothesis correct Sasaki?

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 12-12-2006, 18:00

Originally Posted by Avlvs Libvrnivs Britannicvs Maximvs

The sphere is actually two half spheres. One is moving clockwise, the other anti-clockwise. This creates the elusion of one sphere moving in two directions.

Is my hypothesis correct Sasaki?

Well it's 2d, so I think doc_beans description would be the most accurate. The dots move back and forth wiggling a little.

Here's another one:

What do you see?