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Apr 8, 2019 · But Ed Catmull, 74, has the condition aphantasia, in which people cannot visualise mental images at all. And in a surprising survey of his former employees, so do some of the world's best...
- A Life Without Mental Images
Yet he does not see aphantasia as a disability, but simply a...
- A Life Without Mental Images
Aphantasia: Ex-Pixar chief Ed Catmull says 'my mind's eye is blind'. This is so amazing to me. I have been struggling being creative lately, wondering if it's even possible. This article gives me hope! And in a surprising survey of his former employees, so do some of the world's best animators.
Mar 27, 2024 · Early contacts included Ed Catmull, the president of Pixar Disney, and Blake Ross, co-creator of the Mozilla Firefox internet browser, who described the moment he identified his aphantasia in a...
- Knowing vs Picturing
- Seeing vs Imagining
- Creativity Diversified
The first point to consider is that there is a difference between knowing or remembering what something looks like and generating a mental image of that thing. To draw it, you only need to know how it looks, or would look. As the psychologist of art Rudolf Arnheimnoted, a draftsperson working from memory “may deny convincingly that he has anything ...
Another seemingly obvious but important point is that whereas mental visualisation takes place entirely within the brain, drawing is a partly external act, taking place in front of the artist’s eyes. When you draw, you perceive the marks you make. Each change, perceived, suggests the next, in a feedback loop. You don’t have to imagine. Many of the ...
The way that aphantasics like Keane work challenges the stereotype of the creative artist that has held sway over Western culture for centuries, at least since the Renaissance biographer Giorgio Vasarideclared that “the greatest geniuses…are searching for inventions in their minds, forming those perfect ideas which their hands then express”. Vasari...
BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind talks about Aphantasia and the recent Extreme Imagination conference - includes interviews with attendees, Professor Adam Zeman, Ed Catmull and Professor Joel Pearson (4:40-17:40)
Jun 10, 2021 · Ed Catmull, who co-founded Pixar and helped make huge advances in 3-D animation, announced “my mind’s eye is blind” a few years ago, and even found other animators at Pixar with aphantasia. He told the BBC that aphantasia helps clear up “some misconceptions about creativity”:
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The present study investigates whether aphantasia meets the criteria for mental disorders, i.e. statistical rarity, impairment in activities of daily living, violation of social norms and inappropriate behavior and personal distress. Prevalence of aphantasia was determined meta-analytically based on 3,543 participants.
