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Spinning dancer

The Spinning Dancer, also known as the Silhouette Illusion, is a kinetic, bistable, animated optical illusion originally distributed as a GIF animation showing a silhouette of a pirouetting female dancer. The illusion, created in 2003 by Japanese web designer Nobuyuki Kayahara, involves the apparent direction of motion of the figure. Some observers…

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Psychology of visual perception

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KineticBistableOptical illusionGIF animationPirouetting
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Spinning dancer

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the Necker cube which may be perceived from time to time as seen from above or belowinstance ofa typical feature of so-called bistable percepts0.80text

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