Just to add my own anecdatum here -- my mind's eye definitely encodes color, and I can relatively easily match a color in the real world to one in my mind's eye

Just to add my own anecdatum here -- my mind's eye definitely encodes color, and I can relatively easily match a color in the real world to one in my mind's eye. Color gradients are instant for me, although I summon the incorrect red-green gradient caused by incorrect gamma correction to mind by default rather than the more pleasing one with correct gamma correction. In the case of the red-green gradient, I'm not exactly computing the colors intentionally; I've just seen quads with interpolated coloring often enough that those memories feed my mind's eye. I can fairly easily visualize a blue-purple or orange-teal gradient, too, but I can't attest to their accuracy. > But the mind's eye usually doesn't bother doing anything beyond a very low level of detail unless prompted. That's my experience, too. Reading your description of somebody driving away in their car, I was able to easily reconstruct an imagined scene in my mind's eye, but I naturally filled in the missing details with a kind of "default" -- camera position and angle, whether the parking is covered, the car is like the one Dexter's dad drives in Dexter's Laboratory (but not a cartoon), etc. The details are... there-ish, if I care to query them, but for a simple replay of the scene, my imagination doesn't bother rendering them to any significant fidelity unless I intend to.