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Emile comments on Question about brains and big numbers - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: XiXiDu 17 April 2012 11:57AM

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Comment author: Emile 17 April 2012 12:41:17PM *  2 points [-]

Agreed - I was thinking of that in the third paragraph; when it is possible, it's still pretty slow - faster than drawing, slower than rendering.

(Without requiring amazing artists, I think a lot of people would be capable of imagining their bedroom at a high level of detail.)