So, what color are these spirals?
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa159/Gurn_Blanston/colors.gif)
Curious if you see what I see... :)
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Feel free to post your own illusions here. :)
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Cyan, green, pink, over an orange canvas. I bet they are all black or something. ;D
I don't know if this counts. I know some question the merits of this test, but this is supposed to determine how you think.
Apparently, if you deem the image to be rotating counter-clockwise, it means you are a left brain thinker. If you see the image rotating clockwise, you are more of a right brain thinker.
(http://goohackle.com/imgs/spinning-lady.gif)
I definitely am a left brain thinker, and I definitely see the image rotating counter-clockwise. Although, after awhile, if I look away and look back at the image, for a brief moment, I can see the image turning clockwise. Most of the time though, it is turning counter-clockwise for me. My wife always sees it turning clockwise.
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe
RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking
I'm a left-brain thinker. What does it say though that i focused on her breasts first?
[EDIT] Well, damn, i forced myself to see her go clockwise and now i can't get her to go the other way.
[EDIT2] Now i can see her go both ways at will. This test sucks.
No question that she is turning clockwise. So are her breasts... :)
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How many composers who wrote their own music can you see?
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on November 05, 2010, 07:37:35 AM
No question that she is turning clockwise. So are her breasts... :)
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Totally agree. I'm trying to force myself to see her turn counter-clockwise though.
Gah, now I can see it counter-clockwise, but not the other way.
Edit: I'm with JdP, now. It is a neat illusion though. 8)
I guess that by reading those descriptions alone i must actually be a right-brain thinker.
Quote from: Il Furioso on November 05, 2010, 07:40:05 AM
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How many composers who wrote their own music can you see?
Apparently there are at least 7 or 8 in that one picture alone. Good to see you back, Robert... :D
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Quote from: Gurn Blanston on November 05, 2010, 07:47:03 AM
Apparently there are at least 7 or 8 in that one picture alone. Good to see you back, Robert... :D
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Can anybody else see it turning into Luchesi!?! WOW!!! :o
Quote from: ChamberNut on November 05, 2010, 07:48:07 AM
Can anybody else see it turning into Luchesi!?! WOW!!! :o
It's really quite stunning. It's lasted over 200 years, you know... :)
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Quote from: ChamberNut on November 05, 2010, 07:28:08 AM
I don't know if this counts. I know some question the merits of this test, but this is supposed to determine how you think.
Apparently, if you deem the image to be rotating counter-clockwise, it means you are a left brain thinker. If you see the image rotating clockwise, you are more of a right brain thinker.
Uncued, I definitely see it as moving clockwise. With a little mental effort, I can see it moving counter-clockwise instead.
Don't forget to go back to Post #1 and try that one too. True, my picture doesn't have Golden Bozos, but it is a lot harder than it seems.
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Quote from: Gurn Blanston on November 05, 2010, 08:15:28 AM
Don't forget to go back to Post #1 and try that one too. True, my picture doesn't have Golden Bozos, but it is a lot harder than it seems.
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Pale blue, orange, and pale green?
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on November 05, 2010, 08:18:05 AM
Pale blue, orange, and pale green?
Nah, but you can get another free try. It's true, there are just 3 colors... :)
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Quote from: Gurn Blanston on November 05, 2010, 08:15:28 AM
Don't forget to go back to Post #1 and try that one too. True, my picture doesn't have Golden Bozos, but it is a lot harder than it seems.
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There are no spirals, only concentric circles? This seems like a cop out though.
Quote from: ChamberNut on November 05, 2010, 07:28:08 AM
I don't know if this counts. I know some question the merits of this test, but this is supposed to determine how you think.
Apparently, if you deem the image to be rotating counter-clockwise, it means you are a left brain thinker. If you see the image rotating clockwise, you are more of a right brain thinker.
(http://goohackle.com/imgs/spinning-lady.gif)
I definitely am a left brain thinker, and I definitely see the image rotating counter-clockwise. Although, after awhile, if I look away and look back at the image, for a brief moment, I can see the image turning clockwise. Most of the time though, it is turning counter-clockwise for me. My wife always sees it turning clockwise.
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe
RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking
I don't want to discourage anyone from looking at pictures of spinning naked ladies, but I've yet to see any evidence to support the notion that the direction of rotation has anything to do with whether a person is left-brain or right-brain dominant, whatever that would mean.
And to be fair, shouldn't we have a comparable picture with a naked man?
Quote from: Il Furioso on November 05, 2010, 08:21:23 AM
There are no spirals, only concentric circles? This seems like a cop out though.
No, actually they ARE spirals. It is definitely a color thing, I'll put you on that track. It's hard enough to figure, I don't have to lie to you. :D
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Quote from: Scarpia on November 05, 2010, 08:21:44 AM
I don't want to discourage anyone from looking at pictures of spinning naked ladies spinning, but I've yet to see any evidence to support the notion that the direction of rotation has anything to do with whether a person is left-brain or right-brain dominant, whatever that would mean.
And to be fair, shouldn't we have a comparable picture with a naked man?
If you start spinning right now, maybe Sean will show up with his video camera soon... :D
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Quote from: Gurn Blanston on November 05, 2010, 06:49:25 AM
So, what color are these spirals?
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa159/Gurn_Blanston/colors.gif)
Curious if you see what I see... :)
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The trick, I guess, is that orange is clearly perceived when contrasted with green, but orange looks like a lighter shade of pink when contrasted with magenta. By blocking the screen so you can only see one color at once, you will notice that the light pink from the magenta/pink zone is the same orange as in the orange/green zone. (A quick glance would lead you to think there are four distinct colors but there are only three, the pink in the magenta pink zone is identical to the orange in the green orange zone.) Right?
The lesson is that the visual system is not good at evaluating absolute color values. It is good at detecting contrasts with nearby colors. So your perception of a color depends more on how it contrasts with nearby colors, than on that the color actually is.
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on November 05, 2010, 08:24:30 AM
No, actually they ARE spirals. It is definitely a color thing, I'll put you on that track. It's hard enough to figure, I don't have to lie to you. :D
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No, I meant that the spirals are made form concentric circles, so they are there, but they aren't. No matter, it's not right.
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on November 05, 2010, 08:24:30 AM
No, actually they ARE spirals. It is definitely a color thing, I'll put you on that track. It's hard enough to figure, I don't have to lie to you. :D
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Somehow I transposed the compositional roles of the pink and orange.Quote from: Scarpia on November 05, 2010, 08:21:44 AM
I don't want to discourage anyone from looking at pictures of spinning naked ladies, but I've yet to see any evidence to support the notion that the direction of rotation has anything to do with whether a person is left-brain or right-brain dominant, whatever that would mean.
And to be fair, shouldn't we have a comparable picture with a naked man?
FWIW, I did not pay any particular attention to the sex of the rotating person.
Which may mean that I've failed this optical test, too ; )
Quote from: Scarpia on November 05, 2010, 08:26:03 AM
The lesson is that the visual system is not good at evaluating absolute color values. It is good at detecting contrasts with nearby colors. So your perception of a color depends more on how it contrasts with nearby colors, than on that the color actually is.
Oh yes, nice, the green and blue are actually the same colour!
Yes, there are only 3 colours, the light blue and light green spirals are actually the same colour, but because the green has orange lines across it, and the blue has magenta lines across it, the brain computes to see the green and blue as two different colours, in fact they're an identical shade of green/blue.
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on November 05, 2010, 08:25:33 AM
If you start spinning right now, maybe Sean will show up with his video camera soon... :D
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;D ;D ;D ;D
I'm getting a headache from looking at the spiral picture too long. :-\
Please tell me what to do next, Master Gurn. I am your servant.
Quote from: ChamberNut on November 05, 2010, 08:44:05 AM
Please tell me what to do next, Master Gurn. I am your servant.
Gurn, on which thread do you wish me to post this 3,000-word article on Zelenka? . . .
Quote from: ChamberNut on November 05, 2010, 08:44:05 AM
Please tell me what to do next, Master Gurn. I am your servant.
Master, I have destroyed all my non-HIP classical era CDs. I am ready for my next lesson.
Quote from: Scarpia on November 05, 2010, 08:21:44 AM
And to be fair, shouldn't we have a comparable picture with a naked man?
Why? There are no women in this forum. :-\
Quote from: Octo_Russ on November 05, 2010, 08:42:58 AM
Yes, there are only 3 colours, the light blue and light green spirals are actually the same colour, but because the green has orange lines across it, and the blue has magenta lines across it, the brain computes to see the green and blue as two different colours, in fact they're an identical shade of green/blue.
The first thing I noticed is that the orange against green is the same as the pink against magenta. But it you are right that the cyan against magenta is the same as the green against orange. That is even less obvious. The attached shows the three colors present is isolated bars.
(http://media.log-in.ru/i/green_is_identical.gif)
How many shades of green are there?, look far away from the screen, seems to be two, but look close, you can see that there's only one, similar things are happening with the spirals.
(http://media.log-in.ru/i/2005_2a.gif)
Get close to the screen, constantly look at the middle of the black cross, what happens to all the pink dots?
Quote from: Scarpia on November 05, 2010, 08:26:03 AM
The trick, I guess, is that orange is clearly perceived when contrasted with green, but orange looks like a lighter shade of pink when contrasted with magenta. By blocking the screen so you can only see one color at once, you will notice that the light pink from the magenta/pink zone is the same orange as in the orange/green zone. (A quick glance would lead you to think there are four distinct colors but there are only three, the pink in the magenta pink zone is identical to the orange in the green orange zone.) Right?
The lesson is that the visual system is not good at evaluating absolute color values. It is good at detecting contrasts with nearby colors. So your perception of a color depends more on how it contrasts with nearby colors, than on that the color actually is.
You are on the right track, but not quite there, exactly. :)
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Quote from: Il Furioso on November 05, 2010, 08:34:59 AM
Oh yes, nice, the green and blue are actually the same colour!
BINGO! There is no green or blue, it is a shade of dark aqua and both are the same color. When the magenta passes through, it looks blue. When the orange passes through, it looks green. That is cool! :)
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Quote from: ChamberNut on November 05, 2010, 08:44:05 AM
;D ;D ;D ;D
I'm getting a headache from looking at the spiral picture too long. :-\
Please tell me what to do next, Master Gurn. I am your servant.
:D Yes, it will burn you out after a bit, won't it? :)
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Quote from: ChamberNut on November 05, 2010, 08:50:41 AM
Master, I have destroyed all my non-HIP classical era CDs. I am ready for my next lesson.
You have indeed done well, Grasshopper. That should keep you until tomorrow, I think... :)
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Quote from: Octo_Russ on November 05, 2010, 09:27:24 AM
(http://media.log-in.ru/i/2005_2a.gif)
Get close to the screen, constantly look at the middle of the black cross, what happens to all the pink dots?
They blink in a clockwise pattern. However, they really DO blink, since you can cover all but one and it blinks... :-\
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Quote from: Octo_Russ on November 05, 2010, 09:27:24 AM
Get close to the screen, constantly look at the middle of the black cross, what happens to all the pink dots?
They start to turn green, and half of them seem to disappear.
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on November 05, 2010, 09:35:24 AM
They blink in a clockwise pattern. However, they really DO blink, since you can cover all but one and it blinks... :-\
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The trick is that it looks like a green dot replaces the pink dots racing around the circle, but really the pink dot disappears and reverts to grey.
Quote from: Scarpia on November 05, 2010, 09:37:52 AM
The trick is that it looks like a green dot replaces the pink dots racing around the circle, but really the pink dot disappears and reverts to grey.
:-\ It doesn't do that for me. No green seen. :'(
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Quote from: Gurn Blanston on November 05, 2010, 06:55:13 AM
Feel free to post your own illusions here. :)
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Mozart's works were written by an insignificant Italian.
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on November 05, 2010, 09:43:21 AM
:-\ It doesn't do that for me. No green seen. :'(
Look very close to the screen, gaze at the black cross for a while, what happens to the pink dots, you have to keep your eyes focused on that one point for a while, and you need to get close enough.
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on November 05, 2010, 09:43:21 AM
:-\ It doesn't do that for me. No green seen. :'(
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The trick is to hold your field of vision steady, don't let your focus follow the disappearing dot, but hold it on the cross in the center
Quote from: erato on November 05, 2010, 09:46:00 AM
Mozart's works were written by an insignificant Italian.
I know it's not a language issue, but I just want to clarify; that was '
Illusion' not '
delusion' :D
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Quote from: Octo_Russ on November 05, 2010, 09:49:32 AM
Look very close to the screen, gaze at the black cross for a while, what happens to the pink dots, you have to keep your eyes focused on that one point for a while, and you need to get close enough.
Quote from: Scarpia on November 05, 2010, 10:12:26 AM
The trick is to hold your field of vision steady, don't let your focus follow the disappearing dot, but hold it on the cross in the center
OK, I see it now. Interesting phenomenon. :)
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Here's another one, are the two stars A & B different shades of blue?
(http://media.log-in.ru/i/stars1.jpg)
Quote from: Josquin des Prez on November 05, 2010, 07:34:38 AM
I'm a left-brain thinker. What does it say though that i focused on her breasts first?
[EDIT] Well, damn, i forced myself to see her go clockwise and now i can't get her to go the other way.
[EDIT2] Now i can see her go both ways at will. This test sucks.
I saw her foot first since it was moving the fastest. :) Moves clockwise for me but I'm not that type of thinker, it's a silly thing isn't it? :D
Here's a video of a "floating cube" that has been making the rounds recently:
http://www.youtube.com/v/E9I-Onwfqpo
I got this from Richard Wiseman's (http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/) blog. Do subscribe to it if you are into this sort of thing.
And, Gurn, I am familiar with the illusion you posted. :) If I remember correctly, I blinded someone on the board many months ago with that. ;D (In fact, I originally saw it on Phil Plait's blog (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/24/the-blue-and-the-green/). And Phil Plait's "evil twin (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/01/01/after-christmas-comes-a-wiseman-from-the-east/)" is Richard Wiseman. ;) )
Quote from: Opus106 on November 05, 2010, 10:46:30 AM
Here's a video of a "floating cube" that has been making the rounds recently:
http://www.youtube.com/v/E9I-Onwfqpo
I got this from Richard Wiseman's (http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/) blog. Do subscribe to it if you are into this sort of thing.
And, Gurn, I am familiar with the illusion you posted. :) If I remember correctly, I blinded someone on the board many months ago with that. ;D (In fact, I originally saw it on Phil Plait's blog (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/24/the-blue-and-the-green/). And Phil Plait's "evil twin (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/01/01/after-christmas-comes-a-wiseman-from-the-east/)" is Richard Wiseman. ;) )
Navneeth,
Yeah, I got it from Phil Plait. Also this one that you have here, which is very cool. :)
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Quote from: ChamberNut on November 05, 2010, 07:28:08 AM
Apparently, if you deem the image to be rotating counter-clockwise, it means you are a left brain thinker. If you see the image rotating clockwise, you are more of a right brain thinker.
Urgghh.... not this one again...
I don't think it has anything to do with left brain vs. right brain. You can will yourself to see her changing directions- you just have to relax and kind of switch your perception. It's not easy to do, but if you practice enough, it's possible.
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on November 05, 2010, 10:13:52 AM
I know it's not a language issue, but I just want to clarify; that was 'Illusion' not 'delusion' :D
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Especially since they were written by his father.
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_y_1Nw_eemq8/TNSNlKmHnrI/AAAAAAAABFE/aqZQ6G51_zA/stars1.jpg)
I cut and pasted the answer, yep unbelievably they are exactly the same shade!.
Quote from: Octo_Russ on November 05, 2010, 03:09:36 PM
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_y_1Nw_eemq8/TNSNlKmHnrI/AAAAAAAABFE/aqZQ6G51_zA/stars1.jpg)
I cut and pasted the answer, yep unbelievably they are exactly the same shade!.
If the answer hadn't had to be 'yes' (else you wouldn't have asked :) ) I wouldn't have believed it. They don't appear remotely close. :)
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Now playing:
Franco Mezzena (Violin) - Viotti G 092 Concerto #20 in D for Violin 1st mvmt - Allegro
It didn't surprise me, but then, I've got two fine artists at home.
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on November 05, 2010, 03:38:58 PM
They don't appear remotely close.
*chuckles*
Now that would have been an illusion, had they appeared so. ;)
How about this one ...