>>55090838>>55090981Yup, no one actually has a photographic image of an apple stored in their brain. The visual information first gets broken down into a series of traits like "is red", "is round" etc. If there's something about apples that you never noticed, then it's not stored at all.
This is why drawing things from memory is hard, even after years of training/practice. The "artist's eye" is learning to store extra datapoints on what you're looking at, and then combining them with knowledge on lighting, musculature etc. to fill in the gaps.
You can picture things "clearly" in your mind even if you don't actually have all the info needed to recreate them, for the same reason dreams make perfect sense until you wake up.
