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

[Steve Jenkins (steve]

Sorry, Dennis. I don't think there's any hoax here. It's indeed an animated
GIF as you point out, but nothing in it seems designed to fool anyone. It's
just a sequence of images that (depending on how you look at it) can appear
to rotate one way or the other. I've been successful now in getting her to
"go both ways." :) It's a 2D image and the mind adds the third D.

Although she looks to be a 36C to me...

SJ

-----Original Message-----
From: ken rentiers [mailto:rentiers [at] mac.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 10:02 AM
To: Steve Jenkins
Cc: 'The FerrariList'
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] OT: Left Brain vs. Right Brain

Not exactly, Commendatore. The two-dimensional silhouette sequence is  
identical regardless of which direction you perceive the rotation to  
be. The mind "sees" what it expects to see, just as we see motion in  
movies. Similarly we conjure up various critters appearing in the  
lights while driving late at night, long after we should have pulled  
off for a rest. Shadows become deer and such.

Your eyes do not see, your occipital cortex sees. But it sees two  
disparate images, upside down and backwards. This input then goes to  
your visual CPU which merges the two pictures, assigns depth, inverts  
the image and identifies it. Why you know a glowing exhaust manifold  
should not be touched even if it is 20 below in Boston and you cannot  
feel the heat. It is an exhaust and it is red and therefore pretty  
damn hot.

I have to agree that there is no neuro-anatomical basis for "seeing"  
CW v CCW rotation. That's how you switch directions for the girl,  
your conscious mind inputs expectations and the black box in your  
midbrain fulfills the request.

But I still can't make her bend over!


On Oct 11, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Dennis Liu 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.
>
>
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fellippe Galletta [mailto:fellippe.galletta [at] gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 11:46 AM
> To: Dennis Liu
> Cc: The FerrariList
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] OT: Left Brain vs. Right Brain
>
> On 10/11/07, S Chung <stewartchung [at] comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> I can get her spinning both ways.
>> But I have to blink my eyes to change her direction
>>
>> ....and if you focus real hard you can actually see the flesh  
>> tone, and
>> she
>> ain't wearing no spandex ;)
>
>
> LOLOL, nice!
>
> Kudos to those who can change direction on the fly...you jedis!
>
> Dennis, has the entire list been suckered or just me? :)
>
> FG
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