Tuesday, January 7, 2014

The Spinning Lady Illusion Updated

One of my students from last year found this and shared it with me. Thank you Harleen. :)

It is an update of the spinning lady illusion to make it more visible for each direction.  The original was from this link:
https://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_la72c3KYmq1qabovao1_r1_500.gif 


In the comments section, there were requests to have the illusion explained.  Here are a few excellent links that explain this and other illusions.  Enjoy :)

http://www.moillusions.com/spinning-girl-illusion-explanation/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_Dancer
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/left-brain-right-brain-and-the-spinning-girl/
http://psychology.about.com/od/sensationandperception/ig/Optical-Illusions/spinning-dancer-illusion.htm
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/the-truth-about-the-spinning-dancer/?_r=0



Posted by Chuck Schallhorn

2 comments:

Carolyn said...

Wow! This is neat. Can you explain how this works??

Chuck Schallhorn said...

I have edited the original to include several links to explanations of the illusion.