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# This will cure your hangovers

Look at them one at a time -which direction is each spinning in, clockwise or anticlockwise?
(, Sat 1 Jun 2002, 16:41, archived)
# Higher
frame rate needed[1] before this question can be answered.

[1] without changing the rotation speed.
(, Sat 1 Jun 2002, 16:50, archived)
# i think the point is
that they can look like they are turning either way
(, Sat 1 Jun 2002, 16:52, archived)
# Yeah but..
I'm an awkward sod..

I'm not even hung over. I've been up for, umm, a while, and acheived loads today like, umm, reading b3ta, buying food, erm reading b3ta again...
(, Sat 1 Jun 2002, 17:16, archived)
# Looks to me like
They are just wiggling back and forth
(, Sat 1 Jun 2002, 18:11, archived)
# Yeah that's just it you can use the power of your mind to make them go in whichever direction you want.
They start to look a little like swastikas after a while though.
(, Sat 1 Jun 2002, 16:52, archived)
# thanks
i've just been sick on my keyboard
(, Sat 1 Jun 2002, 16:52, archived)
# I'm not responsible
for any ill-effects resulting from this.

dogfeathers.com/java/spirals.html

Stare at the spirally thing for a minute (sit about half a metre back), then look at your hand.

For me it worked better in reverse, but you might find otherwise.

(edit: If you're running some sort of Unix, hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA004959/gru/gru-8087.tar.gz does the same thing much more effectively (compile it yourself or if you're running FreeBSD get it from ports/games/gru).
(, Sat 1 Jun 2002, 17:39, archived)
# thats nearly exactly
how id imagine taking LSD must be like...
(, Sat 1 Jun 2002, 17:50, archived)
# freaky
i really didn't expect anything to happen, but hark, thats quite bizzare
(, Sat 1 Jun 2002, 17:52, archived)
# If you stare at it like a magic eye pic
it looks better.
(, Sat 1 Jun 2002, 17:33, archived)
# you're right!
lovely!
(, Sat 1 Jun 2002, 17:57, archived)
# all i saw were
swasticas.
(, Sat 1 Jun 2002, 19:10, archived)