mental dissasembly

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does anyone else look at things and dissasemble them in their head to the best of their ability <highest resolution you can manage?>

I do that, I take apart buildings I'm in, hand controls, cars, aeroplanes, anything mechanical that I can find rivets or screws or whatever on, I'll just start dissassembling it and take what information I know and can derive about it and begin forming a higher and higher resolution model of it, I loved the ford commercial where they had the exploded ford truck <with all the parts and the seals hovering in space> I've never been able to do that resolution with something that complex <mostly because I have never had a full parts list> but that was the closest I've ever had to seeing something in my head outside

which is nice

Yes. I wish I could interface my mind to a computer. I design systems in my mind all the time.

Machine,

You should look into being a System Architect. That's what they do. They build models of systems for companies. The engineers take those models and all of the attendant information and build the system.

Zanne

Yeah I do that quite often! This is probably one of the reasons I chose to study mech. engineering but I dropped out after 4 years, didn't fit into the whole ridgit structure they have in universities Had I known I have AS that would probably have helped, but alas....
I usually also do it at night in order to fall asleep, works like a charm, it has a totally calming effect on me.

Yeah, I've done that too.

Steve

quest_tech, i think that way too dissassemble things mentally, i think eyewitness books made a series of books with blow ups part by part of things, cars, trucks, boats, they would place all teh parts on floor then get above it and take a pic then pring it into the book,

theres a show on science channel i think you would LOVE its called how its made(canadian) http://www.commentcestfait.com/html/anglais/index2.html

this tv series shows machines in factories making things that are on the show,

hope you like it, i do and always watching that show if its on.

I continually wonder about how things work and why they're so poorly designed.

I've noticed that literally more often than not, everyday objects (including virtual objects like computer programs) reveal themselves to be produced with no apparent thought for the end-user. It's as though the things were not tried out before being unleashed on an unsuspecting and vulnerable public.

This leads me to wonder how they could be better made, and I usually have the answer in a few seconds, so then I wonder why the hell they weren't made that way to begin with. In some cases, it would have meant putting in an additional part costing perhaps two cents to the manufacturer. That would probably make the stockholders unhappy. In the case of software, all I can think usually is that no beta testing was done, or else the designers did the testing themselves--VERY bad idea.

I don't actually disassemble objects and machines in my head when I analyze this way. I have very poor visualization skill and am almost incapable of fantasizing (which includes this kind of visualization) for more than a few seconds at a time, before my mind runs off in five other directions. I do occasionally physically disassemble devices,usually defective ones, to see what's wrong or simply how they're constructed inside.

I did that with a clock when I was about seven years old and could never get it back together again.

I'm not mechanically inclined, but I do that with written material. If I see an article in the newspaper that is badly written (spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc.), I will correct it. I used to work as a proofreader and errors in printed material still bother me.

QUITE!

Indeed, I can well recall sitting in a circle in kindergarten whilst whatever was going on was going on all round me. I took no part in the vast spectacle of kindergarten. Instead I built a virtual rocket - approximately 3' in height, liquid fueled - tanks, pumps, engine, guidance, in a frame then I skinned it, fueled it and launched it right through the classroom roof.

Bloody nice liftoff it was too!

Glad I am not alone in this. I am now an architect.

aspie power!

I've designed, built, tested, and debugged entire systems, all with in my mind. Just before my discovery of apsergers, I designed an infintely scaleable, analog electronic telephone switch. And just before that, I created a clutchless automatic transmission.

Yep, I look at ASM code and can turn it back into C in my head. </joke>

I feel like a bit of a freak in this area.I hated mechanical items and was bored with listening to guys talk about car engines and such.I could spend hour looking at insect "parts" and plants and rocks and reading about how they are put together,what they are made of,etc.Later I liked doing this with humans, physiology, psychology,anthropology,sociology.I found them very mysteries and wanted to know how and why they acted the way they did.

I do enjoy taking machines apart and looking at the spinny thingsscrews and wires and then making"art" out of them.I liked doing that with bones,feathers,rocks, wood and fur as well.