Which way?
This is basically a lovely illustration of trans-temporal Karklovsky's states.
A picture rich with confounding perspectives and high in multiple suggestions is pigeon holed by the brain into something logical and straightforward.
At certain points in the animation, depending on what focal points you pick, you will perceive a rotational aspect. If the left hand side of your brain is dominant, you are likely to place logic, motor activity and calculation before The Arts, creativity and self expression. You will also have difficulty visualising how the animation may look rotating in the other direction.
If your right hemisphere is dominant, reverse that pretty much.
If you are fairly equally matched in both hemisphere's dominance levels, then you will be able to easily make the thing change direction with a bit of practice and WHILST looking at it directly
Otherwise, deano's tip is a good one and I would add
AND
1) Look at it from the corner of your eye, ie outside of the 2 degree field of 100% visual acuity
2) VISUALISE it spinning in the other direction
3) MOVE it into the 2degree field of full vision, ie look at it directly when the paws are sticking out left or right, as that is the point of greatest visual ambiguity.
Hopefully it should move in the direction you have visualised.
Cheers,
GJ
A picture rich with confounding perspectives and high in multiple suggestions is pigeon holed by the brain into something logical and straightforward.
At certain points in the animation, depending on what focal points you pick, you will perceive a rotational aspect. If the left hand side of your brain is dominant, you are likely to place logic, motor activity and calculation before The Arts, creativity and self expression. You will also have difficulty visualising how the animation may look rotating in the other direction.
If your right hemisphere is dominant, reverse that pretty much.
If you are fairly equally matched in both hemisphere's dominance levels, then you will be able to easily make the thing change direction with a bit of practice and WHILST looking at it directly
Otherwise, deano's tip is a good one and I would add
AND
1) Look at it from the corner of your eye, ie outside of the 2 degree field of 100% visual acuity
2) VISUALISE it spinning in the other direction
3) MOVE it into the 2degree field of full vision, ie look at it directly when the paws are sticking out left or right, as that is the point of greatest visual ambiguity.
Hopefully it should move in the direction you have visualised.
Cheers,
GJ
JG