Session XIV: Performance Measure
Visualizing Performance Measure
(Contributed by Southern Technology State University)
Description
Visualizing is the process of making an image. It
is an expression of an idea or concept as an image with context,
whether done mentally or constructed externally. It is the ability
to see what is not literally before one's eyes. These images
can range from very tangible objects to abstractions. They can
be stationary with complex detail or a motion picture changing
over time or context. It is the ability to see clearly a series
of steps applied to a situation, play back the tape of an experience(history)
or see clearly the future unfold(futurist).
Ranked Criteria/Factors List
1. recognizing patterns relationships
2. abstracting /conceptualizing
3. manipulating objects
4. separating objects from background/context
5. Perceptual skills (color/text sensibility)
6. spatial ability
7. playfulness
8. seeing complexity/richness of detail
9. clarity of images
10. receptivity
Strategies for Improving Your Visualizing Skill
1. Assess paintings from a variety of contexts to determine the level of visualization skill and justify your ratings.
2. Assess 10 automobiles and determine which team of designers were at what level in their visualizing skills.
3. Mentally walk through a building, process, book, motion picture, and heated discussion you have recently experienced and document in detail four snapshots for each experience.
4. Draw images of abstract ideas, concepts, and expressions.
Artists
1. Capture images from every experience and transform them into new creative images that cross boundaries.
2. Create patterns and relationships in their images through synthesis, modeling, and generalizing of images.
3. Creates new boundaries and relationships between objects and context through creative manipulation.
4. Are creative in their use of detail, complexity, and richness without losing sharpness in their images.
5. Use color and textual richness expertly in challenging
the boundaries of acceptable spatial arrangements.
Craftsmen
1. Seek new experiences for finding images to experiment within the boundaries of their own context.
2. Strong at recognizing patterns and drawing relationships and can conceptualize abstract images.
3. See objects, context, and their relationships and can manipulate images by varying the relationships.
4. Have explored relationships between complexity and clarity to produce more clear rich images.
5. Actively use color, texture, and richness in images to given
spatial meaning between objects and context.
Apprentices
1. See images from new experiences and enjoy how others transform these images into new images.
2. Want others to help them see subtle relationships and patterns to better abstract and conceptualize.
3. See the objects separate from many contexts and can transform images in selected dimensions.
4. Understand the importance of richness, can see it when shown and can then see images with new clarity.
5. Can see colors, texture, and backgrounds in spatial relationships
in images previously seen.
Imitators
1. Appropriate obvious standard images and uses these images only in their current context.
2. See dominant patterns and strong relationships and can mimic these images they produce.
3. Can be shown the objects in different context and manipulate basic aspects of an image.
4. Take key pieces of complex images and produce unbalanced images in clarity missing other details.
5. Focus on the colors and texture generally accepted and will
be driven spatially by conventions.
Artless Individuals
1. See few images from each experience and are rigid in how they use these images.
2. Miss most patterns and relationships in their seeing and have difficulty in abstracting anything.
3. Lines between objects and context are blurry and any movement from concrete images is very difficult.
4. See only the surface in their environment and images and most of the time very fuzzy.
5. See only rudimentary colors and texture and misalign shapes,
objects, and backgrounds