I can confirm it's basically a blender model in my head I can ~arbitrarily transform at will. Worth noting it's not just visual, I can 'touch' the surface of the imagined object(s) or whack two together and 'hear' what that sounds like.
Strangely, I can easily do this in my dreams, or when I’m on the verge of sleep, but not at all when I’m awake. It’s like a different brain takes over. Really want to “unlock” this ability, would help a lot with art.
Ask these people to actually draw or paint the apples, and it quickly shows that they do not do lighting and shading correctly. Even with a lot of training.
Just look at art history. Only very few people managed to render things somewhat accurately before the invention of photography. And the consensus is that these exceptions (such as Holbein or Vermeer) used technological tricks to aid them.
My hypothesis is that people have an internal imagery that is extremely realistic and detailed, because they perceive the actual world in exactly the same way, using the same processes. One does not "see" the image on the retina in their mind's eye, one "sees", if I'm allowed to use the metaphor, the vector embedding somewhat further down the line.
Now, if people train their mind to actually see more detail, they find out that the brain is actually rather limited in comparison to a camera.
Yeah I am in this camp as well. I can also do things like, after the apples are smashed together I can see heir bruises, rotate them, make 2 more bruises, etc. while keeping the bruises in their same spots.
It’s actually really annoying because when I’m stuck on a problem I essentially solve the whole thing in my head. I just see all the issues with possible solutions and back them out.
I wonder if it drives my boss nuts because I can go a whole day basically committing nothing, and then bang out the solution very quickly.
I actually have been actively trying to “just start writing, see what pops out” and it isn’t coming very naturally, which is kind of obnoxious.
Do you generally expect anyone to be able to create a drawing/painting of anything in their visual field? Just because I'm staring at the grand canyon doesn't mean I can put it to paper. That takes extensive practice and skill.
I‘m saying you should be able to do it as well as if it were in your actual visual field. Which might be very badly, depending on talent and experience, but not worse. And I was asking a question, if this is your actual experience. Because while I can visualize and rotate and transform objects in my mind, it’s not comparable to actually seeing them, and it doesn’t translate to being able to draw/paint them as well as if they were in front of me, by far.
