I have something similar. I have to push, extremely hard, mentally. Even then the resultant visualization is weak and fuzzy.
In my mind, the concept and the image are decoupled. I have the concept of an apple. A viewed apple can be matched to it for comparisons. That concept includes all variants. Red, green, yellow, small, large, bpy or smooth. It also doesn’t have a view direction built in.
It’s a bit like how you can still recognise a cat, when seen from below. You might never have seen it like that, but your model of “catness” includes it. You can mentally render it and compare. My brain just drops the rendering stage as useless fluff.
I have something similar. I have to push, extremely hard, mentally. Even then the resultant visualization is weak and fuzzy.
In my mind, the concept and the image are decoupled. I have the concept of an apple. A viewed apple can be matched to it for comparisons. That concept includes all variants. Red, green, yellow, small, large, bpy or smooth. It also doesn’t have a view direction built in.
It’s a bit like how you can still recognise a cat, when seen from below. You might never have seen it like that, but your model of “catness” includes it. You can mentally render it and compare. My brain just drops the rendering stage as useless fluff.