Ferrari Mailing List: Re: OT: Left Brain vs. Right Brain

[Fellippe Galletta (fellippe.galletta]

On 10/11/07, Dennis Liu <bigheaddennis [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes.  All of you are suckers.  It's an animated gif that rotates
> directions.
> That's all.  The right-brain/left-brain stuff is there just to distract.
> You've been punked.
>
> It's an animated GIF file.  You can open it with a graphics program (like
> Irfanview), and extract the 34 separate slides that make it up.  Surprise,
> surprise, if you put the together like a flip-book, it creates the
> animation
> of the girl rotating.  The underlying code in the gif just varies the
> rotation.  And, no, it has nothing to do with your mind causing the change
> in rotation, etc.  Think about it - each slide just shows the girl in a
> slightly different position.  If slide 7 shows the arm rotated "clockwise"
> by 15 degrees", and slide 8 shows it by 30 degrees, how exactly would your
> mind/willpower cause the rotation to change?  This is just playing on
> simpletons' desire to be fooled and delighted by bread and
> circuses.  Yeesh.


What google link did you copy & paste this from?

:)

And, yes, you should all feel like idiots (and especially some of you, from
> whom I expected better; the others, sadly, it's not surprising).  And you
> should all feel ashamed for this off-topic stuff.
>
> There, I said it!  :-)
>
> (hmmm... Maybe I need my morning soda)
>
> Vty,
>
> --Dennis


Dennis, why so aggressive? LOL. There are some legitimate optical illusions
out there, and some of us wanted to go along with the game...

As for your morning soda, don't let the 430 waiting list get to ya....the
Superleggera is here & ready to go.

:)

FG