Touching: The Tub Shroom Tactile Art

 The sun is shining and traffic is moving and RantWoman is...drum roll please...making tactile graphics again.

The Friendly Neighborhood Center for Extreme computing is nowhere near reopening with in-person services so of course there is no one around to experience tactile graphics.

But

RantWoman decided in honor of her plumbing adventures and of time to reflect on various things, to indulge her fascination with the TubShroom and try to make a tactile graphic image.

RantWoman's general creative process: find an image. Load it into Tactile View. Drag the image to a size large enough mostly to fill a 8 /12" x 11" sheet. Mess around with about 3 filters RantWoman can find easily and let software work with no interference. Make some kind of label in Braille in the field provided. Then send the results to the embosser and save the resulting image as a 300 dpi bitmap in case RantWoman is at some point in the future seized with an urge to reproduce said image.  RantWoman tends not to be seized by such urges, but anyway.

RantWoman spends a certain amount of time thinking about how to explain visual concepts to someone who is totally blind and / or has been blind since birth. RantWoman frequently tests her ideas and finds out her guesses are wrong. 

Today at least, RantWoman thinks the TubShroom image and the opportunity to hold the TubShroom (if RantWoman had not already installed it in her bathtub, would be an interesting way to talk about proportion, perspective, and projecting 3-dimensional images onto a plane. 

Or we can all note this hot trick for catching hair out of the shower and not worry about the other stuff..

The 300 DPI bitmap image. 
Braille says
The TubShroom
Lesson in proportion and perspective

The TubShroom 
in Blue

 

Anyway, happy touching!