By “the real-world thing you’re looking at”, you mean the image on your monitor, right?
Yup, or as I wrote: “2D pattern of changing pixels on a flat screen”.
I’m very confident a 3D model was involved
For what it’s worth, even if that’s true, it’s still at least possible that we could view both the 3D model and the full source code, and yet still not have an answer to whether it’s spinning clockwise or counterclockwise. E.g. perhaps you could look at the source code and say “this code is rotating the model counterclockwise and rendering it from the +z direction”, or you could say “this code is rotating the model clockwise and rendering it from the -z direction”, with both interpretations matching the source code equally well. Or something like that. That’s not necessarily the case, just possible, I think. I’ve never coded in Flash, so I wouldn’t know for sure. Yeah this is definitely a side track. :)
Excellent. Sorry for thinking you were saying something you weren’t!
still not have an answer to whether it’s spinning clockwise or counterclockwise
More simply (and quite possibly true), Nobuyuki Kayahara rendered it spinning either clockwise or counterclockwise, lost the source, and has since forgotten which way it was going.
I think we’re in agreement on everything.
Yup, or as I wrote: “2D pattern of changing pixels on a flat screen”.
For what it’s worth, even if that’s true, it’s still at least possible that we could view both the 3D model and the full source code, and yet still not have an answer to whether it’s spinning clockwise or counterclockwise. E.g. perhaps you could look at the source code and say “this code is rotating the model counterclockwise and rendering it from the +z direction”, or you could say “this code is rotating the model clockwise and rendering it from the -z direction”, with both interpretations matching the source code equally well. Or something like that. That’s not necessarily the case, just possible, I think. I’ve never coded in Flash, so I wouldn’t know for sure. Yeah this is definitely a side track. :)
Nice find with the website, thanks.
Excellent. Sorry for thinking you were saying something you weren’t!
More simply (and quite possibly true), Nobuyuki Kayahara rendered it spinning either clockwise or counterclockwise, lost the source, and has since forgotten which way it was going.