Re: the apple test

On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 17:19:51 -0500, Edward Rawde wrote:

"john larkin" <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote in message
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Close your eyes and imagine an apple in front of your face. Can you see
it? In detail, in color? Can you rotate it on any axis and see it
moving? Can you look down on it from the top and see which way the stem
points?

 
Haven't we been through this before?

ISTR we have.

Some people can visualize the apple, some can't.

I just find it bizarre that some people can't. I have no difficulty seeing
it in great detail 3D technicolour and the perspective manipulation is no
problem, either.
There again, I was equally astonished when I discovered that not everyone
dreams in colour as that was also something I'd always taken for granted.
BTW, being able to visualise 3D objects in space has not assisted me in
the least with laying out a board in advance and the are invariably no
shortage of items I fail to allow space/clearance/connectivity-convenience
for. And my visio-spatial awareness *in practice* is equally hopeless. So
there must be something more to it.

 
Or so they say.
There's no way to know what goes on in someone else's head.
 

Some of the can't folks are writers, artists, healthcare providers,
programmers. Their brains apparently process words, not images.
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Seems to me that a circuit designer should be able to visualize
circuits, but maybe not.
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One guy I talked to today can only imaging the apple floating above his
head, and can't manipulate, or really much see, it. He's a very good
programmer.
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I suspect that half of the people that we think are rude in
supermarkets, or bad drivers, aren't so much ill-mannered as they can't
visualize spatial situations or mentally model trajectories.
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