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@Voxera yeah and from as you said, needs.
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@Voxera my understanding of how imagination and creativity tends to work is we can't for example create images blended from things we never saw, or imagine things not somehow related to some basic concept we can modify in our minds. and those things that seemed formed from randomness are still leveraging some inborn geometric aesthetic we are partial to.
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@AvatarOfKaine well, the brain can create new images from parts, and if those parts are small they might not be traceable to where they come from.
Often artists are much better at this than most others that as you said is more locked into building from more complete parts.
But in the case of projects, its also that the more you know if a subject, the more it will feature in any ideas.
Even if you heard about some other tech, without understanding of it you really cannot plan anything around it.
You know when I think back to the ideas I've had and the things I've worked on. I'm having difficulty, with the exception of certain far out projects that were like unattainable, in thinking of anything I've done or thought of that does not involve: data visualization, data gathering, encryption/obfuscation, inventory/storage and/or communication.
am I just unimaginative ?
I did have an idea for a code translator and how it would work and what interfaces you'd have to adopt and how you'd attack implementing things that don't translate well like c++ to js for example. or c++ to c# for that matter ! but I never got far into it. though that would have been attainable as long as you had easy ways of generating bindings.
i mean pathing and navigation were things I thought of too but... that would pretty much be implementing someone else's stuff
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