In this video illusion animation, people can see a dancing dancer rotating clockwise and counterclockwise. So someone gave her a moving name - spinning dancer. The optical Illusion was originally created by Flash expert Nobuyuki Kayahara, a 1995 graduate of the economics department at Hiroshima University in Japan. The illusion was originally named Silhouette Illusion, which translates to "Silhouette illusion" in Chinese.