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Spinning Jenny
For the life of me, I can't even get a hint of her turning anything but clockwise...
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0 ... 75,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0 ... 75,00.html
- englishangel
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It's not a con. I've managed to train my eyes so that I can change it either way. If you focus on the legs as both of them meet the centre of the screen you can get it to spin one rotation clockwise and then immediately anti-clockwise and vice versa. I don't think it's programmed on a pattern, it's a clever optical illusion.
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I'm a right-brainer (could argue no-brainer at the moment, but we won't go into that!!). Can't see her going anti-clockwise at all. Mind you part of that is because I can't take my eyes of her very impressive endowments. Dancer, my foot!
Catherine Standing (Cooper)
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I found it equally easy to see her going clockwise and anticlockwise. I focussed, watched, blinked, refocussed.....and the direction in which she was spinning had changed. Amazing...
I also found that if I focussed on her and then shifted my focus to the side of the image, out of the 'corner of my eye' she was already turning in the opposite direction.
I also found that if I focussed on her and then shifted my focus to the side of the image, out of the 'corner of my eye' she was already turning in the opposite direction.
Kerren Simmonds
5's and 2's Hertford, 1957-1966
5's and 2's Hertford, 1957-1966