visualizing things

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Are you good at visualizing things? (like numbers, nature, graphs, etc)

I'm pretty good at visualizing Nature.

But not numbers and graphs, really. I have to have those right in front of me.

Yes, have done some simple stuff in D3 (nothing good) and used other vis tools like VisJS. Have worked with tools like Graphvis and Gephi, prefer to write my own tools today using other peoples graphics frameworks.

Most tools i run into are simple crap made from piecharts and the occasional network graph, there is plenty of room for improvement, it's like the people designing all these cool new visualizations live on one planet and the people who make tools live on another planet.

Depends what you mean by visualising. As I discovered fairly recently, I have aphantasia, which means I don't see any "mental imagery" at all. I never realised that anyone else did; I always assumed they were speaking figuratively. But if you mean visualisation in a more generic and abstract sense then yes I do; mostly in an abstract way, like in my work, which is based on mathematics and equations.

I'm good at visualizing. I can look at 2D plans or pics and turn them into 3D in my head and rotate them around. It's useful sometimes. I also think in pictures a lot. Not all the time, but often.

Yes, I can mentally visualize things to an extreme (higher dimensions included).

Yes. I visualize a lot -- it could be graphs that had something to do with numbers and concepts, it could be 2D or 3D figures and mentally manipulate it, it could be sequences or seeing physics.


However, like verbal reasoning, I also found it's limitations... Only difference in my case is that I find visual thinking less limiting in several ways.

Or, that, I'm just better at conjoining abstract and concrete thinking with the visual medium than with verbal mediums.
Either way, I do better with visualizing.

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I don't like constructing a mental model if I might be interrupted, but my favourite trick along that line is to imagine a structure being changed into half-cooked pasta. The result in my head is like a CAD drawing tweaked to show the distortions, and I can immediately see where cracks would be likely to start if not reinforced. Imagining everything as a spring, which is the actual case, quickly reveals points of undue stress and opens up many new possibilities, working with the flexing instead of trying to isolate it.

It is one of my few strengths. My visualisation skills prove very helpful as an artist both in 2D drawing and working in 3D software like Maya and ZBrush. I am very much a visual thinker.

I like to daydream about cutscenes of games/short films I would like to make and imagine how it would look with different lighting and characters or changing the composition and environment.

No, I'm not generally good at visualizing at all. I can see the occasional glimpse and I can see my memories (but not hold them in my mind or view of them from other angles as some people here have said they can).
It's def not a skill of mine.

It really depends on what it is that I'm visualising. My mind is good at imagining visual scenes, I can make up entire fake Worlds and people easily, as well as have an image in my mind of what 3D models I want to create will look like, then I can go and make them.

Sculptures, digital 3D models, picturing what characters look like when I'm reading or listening to a story, drawing and creating concepts from my imagination, I'm good at those things.

However, I struggle to visualise numbers. I often forget where I got to when trying to work out an equation. In order to work things out, I have to write down notes in some form or another, otherwise I end up repeating steps, or starting from the beginning.

Usually I'm fairly decent with graphs, not a great fan of scatter graphs though- especially when it comes to drawing a line of best fit.

Or is that a line graph? It's been a while since I last did about this type of thing.

Nature I find easy to visualise.

I am good at visualizing, that is how I think inside my mind. Unfortunately, I have a very poor visual memory and do not at all learn by what I see. I can hear music and it puts pictures into my head, but seeing something and recreating it into in thought, impossible.

I am not so good in visualising in mind, especially more complex or 3D things. I think rather in words.

I suppose that in Northern America I would be diagnosed with NVLD instead of AS(D). My VIQ was 126 and PIQ was 104.

Richard Feynman thought that all his mental processing was verbal until a friend asked him if he could recall the shape of a car's crankshaft, and then asked what words he'd been using.