sorta like identifying fonts, i guess. identified ubuntu and lobster in the wild
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It tends to be a good writing tip when storytelling to use specific details to build a detailed picture.
So, “I drove my car to the place where my friends and I drink beers” becomes “I drove the old Focus out to the abandoned track, where my friends and I would always set out lawn chairs to drink a few Coors.”
People have a natural taxonomic instinct, to identify animals, plants and other humans. Manufacturers of consumer goods manipulate that instinct through branding and design language, to cause you to remember and distinguish their otherwise functionally identical products. It's a form of spamming.
Like, it's just Design. Different car makes and years have different design languages. Also, they usually have a big shiny logo that tells you the make, so you can go "huge Audi saloon" -> "A8".
Yeah I can only remember fun cars that you see in games like Caymans, Camaros, etc. My mind has no space for the shitboxes we have.
It's like reading. I don't look at letters and think "that's an A and that's a B".
It's just "Miata, Civic, Explorer, etc"
Or recognizing people. I just know all these strangers names and faces.
I will remember the year, make, model and possibly trim level of a person's car before I remember their name.
I'm the same. people ask about a car and I'm here saying i don't know, it had like four wheels probably.
Hey, the whole thing about shrimp is a misunderstanding. They have more receptors for different colors, yes. But it's because their brain is so rudimentary that they can't combine the input from 3 color receptors to perceive more colors; they need a separate color receptor for every single color.
I had a friend who grew up in a factory town who could not only recognize most car makes and models, but in some cases could name people who probably worked on that car. I still think our culture is too car-centered, but that have me a new perspective on it.
Sometimes you just need to be able to read the badge
Shrimp actually have less color range.
They've got more receptor types in their eyes than humans, but lack the ability to interpolate any mixed color data they're receiving, so they basically only see the 12 colors/shades while humans perceive an entire spectrum.
They were probably making reference to the colours visible to mantis shrimp
Yes, me too. Problem?
Hmmm I just read the study and while a plausible explanation it doesn’t seem to be a settled matter.
You could have specified you were speaking about mantis shrimp to begin with and skipped being snarky for no reason.
TIL I'm shrimp (prob bcs of all the PC gaming).
Which is fantastic news since it means my progression towards crab is going along nicely.
The comments here really don’t realise what sub they are in Lol
I don't think it's really such a carbrain thing worth picking on.
I can also recognize a decent number of bikes by makes and models. People like to get particular about stuff. Could be clothing, animals, instruments, etc.
Cool people do something similar with birds and plants. I can do it with dogs
It was fun the first time I successfully identified a species of maple from almost a mile away (it was a silver, not super hard lol)
I've slowly worked on my wife and now she properly identifies species of local birds unprompted. I'm so proud of her.
I can do it with tallship designs from the age of sail, there’s more of them floating around than you might think.
I do birb al plant groups too (tho badly)!
But I cannot fucking remember dog breeds at all, or even distinguish between them properly.
I'm much better at identifying cats. Its just a cat, kitty, a chonker even sometimes.
What's a sedan?
4 door car
SUV before it evolves.
I remember as a kid, I was mystified by this other girl on the block who could do this. I didn't understand why anyone would care. A car is a car?
Eventually I realized it's because she was super into external social status signs. She wasn't a gearhead, so she hadn't picked it up the way guys do bonding over technical stats of whatever, but she was hyper-sensitive to social status, so she picked it up along with anything else related to fashion. And cars can be considered fashion, right up there with makeup and having the right purse.
Oh, with me it's shapes, I rely on general shapes slightly nontypically - humans included, I have fairy bad face memory & face recognition, but shapes are easy (and it's more nuanced that just a general shape of the humanoid, gaining or losing weight doesn't change it beyond recognition - like cars/boats/equipment/tools/etc, it's "important" info to understand the underlying build).
I don't see it as a status symbol, although I'm certain that is a huge part of it for a lot of people, but fashion part is right. Cars have design styles, motifs, and trends. I don't know the names for most of them, but I can normally place a car in a 3 year range on sight. Make and model are also often very obvious through those same features, even across a larger number of years, slowly transitioning from one "age' of car design to another. I'm not a car person, but I am, in weird ways, a design nerd.
Even worse, I can identify most cars at night using just the taillight/headlight shape
yOu’Re LiTeRaLlY kIlLiNg ThE pLaNeT bY hAvInG bAsIc PaTtErN rEcOgNiSsIoN
Or by the curve from a part of the wheel arch.
I can look at any car's headlights and tell you which way they're going.
Thanks again, Mitch
I can look at any car's wheels and tell you if it's run me over or not.
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