Saturday, September 28, 2019

Tactile Umbrella Images, Powerpoint, Making Coffee

Recent Postcard from Planet RantWoman, with no apologies whatsoever for....

Umbrella Statements

It is September, It is time for it to be raining. It is Seattle so who really cares about umbrellas--EXCEPT here as Tactile Art projects

The original image from Google
Tactile Art, you say?

Ya know if 3 people who, with RantWoman's permission, once came to the Friendly Neighborhood Center for Extreme Computing  on a different matter had so much as thought to ask about ANYTHING that goes on there, MAYBE RantWoman would be more disposed to take various other views more seriously.

Or maybe readers get, without even being asked about preferences, to think about tactile projections of 3-dimensional objects onto a plane, software that converts images to line drawings and the art of finding images that will convert easily to line drawings with the right level of detail so that a raised image can be reasonably interpreted by people's fingertips.

The (surprisingly cheap) software to make tactile art on the Friendly Neighborhood Center's Braille embosser came as part of a grant for a project that never quite turned out as intended, but RantWoman keeps having a LOT of fun using only a small part of the software capabilities to make tactile art.
The image made just from Convert to Line Drawing in Tactile View

Readers who are REALLY nice or who still don't even ask,  get to hear about taking our collection of tactile drawings to various public events and giving a great cat picture away to a mom whose daughter finds regular coloring books hard because she has motor control issues.

If it's in Twitter it Has to be True.

And speaking of things some in RantWoman's life ARE NOT AWARE OF, for one thing because even though RantWoman overachieves about testiness and interpersonal Brillo Pad, RantWoman also does do things that get recognized but that do not need explicitly to be tangled with RantWoman as growly presence.

City of Seattle ITD (@SeattleITDept) tweeted at 11:25 AM on Fri, Sep 20, 2019:
Multilingual computer classes boost #DigitalLearning in South Seattle’s Rainier Vista community. The resident-led initiative engages @Seattle_Housing tenants with support from the Technology Matching Fund.@emeraldjournal featured the program: Emerald City Journal https://t.co/zn187vAzLR
(https://twitter.com/SeattleITDept/status/1175113780272848896?s=03

RantWoman also notes fantastically successful end of computer classes in 3 languages project celebration,




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