Designing with different parts of the brain

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  1. daiquiri
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    How about the tracing paper taped to the screen and the underneath drawing copied by hand? Yep, I've seen that stuff too... The curvature of the CRT screens was the real enemy. :D :D :D
     
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    I know a Psychoanlyst/Researcher (the most dangerous people on Earth) that reads posts on this website for educational purposes on human responses and IQ computation.
     
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    Did they have Tipp-Ex dotted about on their screens too? :D

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    Whichever side of your brain you use, try to also use common-sense, even with
    "standard" techniques like the classic design spiral.
     
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    Given the scorn with which some NAs and engineers here treat amateur boat designers, it's sort of funny to see some of them theorise about brain structures. :)

    I won't show this thread to my neuroscientist wife. She's had a hard couple of days getting new brain imaging equipment into her lab and this could be the final straw. :)

    Just remember this thread next time some pros try to say that amateurs should stay out of talking boat design.
     
  6. rxcomposite
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    Almost like the golden spiral or the fibonnaci spiral. What ratio is that? Looks like a cornucopia to me.

    Oh! Ok now. It seems like the path of North Korea's recently fired test rocket.
     

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    Think we have covered just about everything here, most important is to use common sense. Which unfortunately for some comes with experience, so practice, practice, practice.

    Another technique that works for me, I'm about to get laughed at and ridiculed, is to meditate often before and during a big project. Helps to cleanse the design palate. 8 years of martial arts, mediation is a habit now. One thing you need to be aware of, the mind has difficulty differentiating between reality and intense thought. A lot of things that you think with conviction and intent manifest into reality. That's why dreams some times feel real, some times you wake up looking for an object you dreamt about because it felt so real. Which part of the brain is firing then I would like to know, maybe the Pineal gland, who knows.

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    I don't, and you probably shouldn't either.
     
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    Looks like the N.Korean Musudan in action :p
     
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    Well as a kid i did, not so much anymore. I also dream in color, when they say that is not normal. Well.....
     
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    No, it's an Indian "Brahmos" missile that failed to proceed, as they say at Rolls-Royce.
     
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    A test of the "RETURN TO SILO" command?
     
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    Joking aside, the fact that you can think of a teardrop trailer is what makes free-hand designing different. Programs are limited by the programmer's imagination and abilities, which may be lesser than ours.
     
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    Creativity is creativity, regardless of the tools employed (computer or other wise) or any other limitations. The only true limitation is between the ears of the envisioner.
     
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