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I remember reading about aphantasia while I was in art school. It made me wonder if the opposite also might exist: being really good at visualizing images in yo
by vanderZwan 5y ago
I remember reading about aphantasia while I was in art school. It made me wonder if the opposite also might exist: being really good at visualizing images in your head, and whether or not some of the people in my school might have it. The few classmates I asked thought I was being ridiculous, so I dropped the subject. I still wonder how one might test this though.
- pseudalopex 5y agoVVIQ covers low and high ability.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vividness_of_Visual_Imagery_Questionnaire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vividness_of_Visual_Imagery_Qu...
- egypturnash 5y agoThere is a story that one of the animators in the 1940s Warners studio got into a car accident, and suffered a mild concussion. When he recovered, he found that his visualization was much improved - suddenly he could visualize the simple construction of the characters, and "trace" it directly onto the paper. This resulted in him being able to draw a lot faster, so that's a pretty obvious test. (IIRC I got this story from Chuck Jones' autobiography, if you want citations.) My personal experience as an artist is that some strains of marijuana can give my visualization abilities a temporary boost into that domain; a lifetime of regular drawing also tends to improve these skills - I'm fifty, and I can skip a lot of steps that younger me couldn't. I generally like to describe the process of learning to draw as "installing a 3d renderer and a library of models on your brain".