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

[ken rentiers (rentiers]

Exactly!

Two words: Escher.

On Oct 11, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Steve Jenkins wrote:

> 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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