Phil Allison wrote:
no mental capacity to imagine the situation in their heads. It pretty much
divides up between the science types ( using mental, physical models ) and
the arts subject types ( using only grammar and phrase matching).

I often find this. When designing and writing software for instance at
work, I can see it all in my head, the mechanisms, how things interact
and such like. As soon as I try and explain it verbally to someone, I
find it difficult to transfer to language. I'm okay if I have time to
produce a document though, because then I have time to translate the
visualisation into words, and I can use diagrams.

In my original post about this, I had the same problem, I wanted to draw
diagrams showing the waves being summed, and the speaker in its
different position, etc.

--
Mark Simonetti.
Freelance Software Engineer.

"Mark Simonetti"

no mental capacity to imagine the situation in their heads. It pretty
much
divides up between the science types ( using mental, physical models )
and
the arts subject types ( using only grammar and phrase matching).

I often find this. When designing and writing software for instance at
work, I can see it all in my head, the mechanisms, how things interact
and such like. As soon as I try and explain it verbally to someone, I
find it difficult to transfer to language. I'm okay if I have time to
produce a document though, because then I have time to translate the
visualisation into words, and I can use diagrams.

In my original post about this, I had the same problem, I wanted to draw
diagrams showing the waves being summed, and the speaker in its
different position, etc.



** The lack of the facility to post sketches and diagrams on usenet is a
*real* drawback. When I need to explain stuff to non-technical folk ( and
some technical ones too) I often reach for my pen and paper !!!!

Then, on second thoughts, the sketches that might appear most often could
be kinda pornographic in nature ;-)



........... Phil

Phil Allison wrote:
Then, on second thoughts, the sketches that might appear most often could
be kinda pornographic in nature ;-)

That might not be a bad thing, I mean if it helps get the point across,
right? All in the aid of science and all that ;-)

--
Mark Simonetti.
Freelance Software Engineer.

In alt.music.home-studio,rec.audio.tech,rec.audio.pro, "Phil Allison"
wrote:

** The lack of the facility to post sketches and diagrams on usenet is a
*real* drawback. When I need to explain stuff to non-technical folk ( and
some technical ones too) I often reach for my pen and paper !!!!

Draw the pics on paper, scan them in, put the files (reasonably
compressed .jpg, please) on a website, and post the URL's in your
message.

Then, on second thoughts, the sketches that might appear most often could
be kinda pornographic in nature ;-)

Use Geocities, they're slow to clean up smut on their server.




.......... Phil




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