woah
of course, the artists who added the coloring intentionally made it look all even more messed up. The central image can appear to be going either direction, based on what direction the brain wants to interpret.
The colors help make tracking possible, but they also intentionally blocked the colors at the appropriate moments to make it only appear to be spinning in one direction. The two colored models are spinning in opposite directions, if you pay attention to the color visual cues... though the model without color (and if you are able to ignore the color on the colored models) can be interpreted in either direction.
Kinda trippy to see it presented like that.