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Is it turning right or left..i think both ways
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Is it turning right or left..i think both ways

"a colorful toy ferris wheel"

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Comments for: Is it turning right or left..i think both ways
zxz555 Report This Comment
Date: October 20, 2006 07:50PM

STOP FUCKING WITH MY MIND !!!
Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: October 20, 2006 08:55PM

Right or left while looking at the top or the bottom?
That's why with a circular spinning object you have to ask "clockwise or counterclockwise?" so people have a consistant reference.

At first I thought it might be one of those optical illusion things but it didn't take me long to realize it spins in one direction, then reverses and spins in the other. It's a pretty smooth transition but not smooth enough not to see when it is making the change.
Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: October 20, 2006 09:10PM

It doesn't "spin" at all. This is only a 2 frame GIF. It just flicks back and forth between two frames. No left, right, clockwise or counterclockwise. Frame A. Frame B. Frame A. Frame B. smiling
smiley The rest is left up to your mind.
shaDEz Report This Comment
Date: October 21, 2006 12:05AM

good answer haha
Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: October 21, 2006 02:55AM

it's because it is NOT smooth that people can see them turning in both directions..
Mrkim Report This Comment
Date: October 21, 2006 04:44AM

It's really cool ! If I look at the outside edge of the object it does appear to move both clockwise and then counterclockwise, but ... if I only look at the hub area closest to the hub I can see it actually is only toggling back and forth in an A-B-A-B motion. Amazing how the mind generates something that doesn't actually exist at all seemingly in an attempt to "make" order out of disorder :>winking
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