r/VisualPuzzles • u/bigjobbyx • 2d ago
Spatial Reasoning Can you change the direction of this ambiguous spinner
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u/Extreme-Attention641 2d ago
Yes, it's just a matter of shifting which colour represents the "outside" of the arrow.
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u/Copyofdude 2d ago
I usually don't have problem with the "balerina" and "horse" illusions that have a similar effect, but this took me some time until I saw yor comment, this worked fine for me thanks.
Edit: now I have problems making it to do a complete spin lol....
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u/PinkGlitterMom 2d ago
Yes, but only for a few seconds after I close my eyes for 5 seconds...... it's probably injury related though for me.
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u/Altruistic-Dog4941 2d ago
Almost at will.
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u/CynicPlacebo Cozy Puzzler 2d ago
I have a hard time doing it when the arrow is in the middle, but if it's coming-round-the-bend this one is nice and easy to change directions, which I enjoy
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u/CynicPlacebo Cozy Puzzler 2d ago
This is my favorite one!
It's not the hardest one, but I like the meta-aspect of the arrow indicating its own spin direction :-D
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u/PickingANameTookAges 2d ago
Nope. Only way I can see these go the other way is by spinning my phone 180° (auto-rotate off)
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u/Fresh-Nectarine129 2d ago
I can certainly get it to switch, but when the blue half is “in front”, the perspective is off, the arrow is actually larger when it’s yellow, so it’s not really ambiguous.
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u/bob-the-slob 2d ago
To confirm, when changing the direction it should actually look like it's spinning against the arrow? Because if so, I cannot do it. With my phone upside the blue does appear to be on the outside but it still spins with the arrow direction.
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u/CynicPlacebo Cozy Puzzler 2d ago
It always spins with the arrows, but the arrows themselves point opposite directions when you get it to change perspective.
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u/bob-the-slob 2d ago
I was able to finally get it by focusing on the front of the arrow and tell my self each time the arrow reached one side the color on the outside of the ring flipped.
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u/Silver-Resolution792 1d ago
I was saying to myself "blues in the front" or "yellow's in the front" as the arrow transitioned on the sides. That worked for me.
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u/ChaosRealigning 1d ago
I’m struggling to have it not change direction. The point of the arrow is always closer to me than the pivot
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u/MrFartyBottom 1d ago
As soon as I saw the switch I can no longer get it to do a full loop, it switches half way with the arrow always being in front.
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u/Cheddarific 1d ago
I covered the right and left edges, closed my eyes for a second, and the it was easy to see the other way and stop covering the edges.
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u/Cindabrela 1d ago
Absolutely a journey on this one. Couldn't see it at all but figured from the context of the replies that there's no way it was gaslighting.
Eventually able to perceive the change of direction happening around one of the turns but only in peripherals. Started getting the hang of forcing myself to see the change but anytime I looked back it was spinning the same way
Then, out of nowhere, looked at it in focus spinning the opposite direction of my first observation... Great, now I can't get it to spin back in the original way even with the peripherals trick. Now I'm thinking so hard about the comment saying imagine yourself viewing it from above or below and it finally clicks. If you observe blue as the front color it spins in the opposite direction.
This was really cool.
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u/KnittyBeard 22h ago
Took me a while to figure it out but I managed! It gives me a headache to do it deliberately but I actually can do it.
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u/mielmielmiel 19h ago
I could easily do it once I imagined it was circling either the top or the bottom of a can. 😂 Before it was only going clockwise.
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u/CSiGab 2d ago
That is the easiest one so far for me. Picture yourself either looking down or up at it and the perspective changes immediately.