I understand our emphasis is technology and that in order to appreciate
pictures and graphs, we must first have a way to produce them. My
question is how much detail blind folks can appreciate. My experience is
that often raised line drawings mean very little to me. Show me a horse
and tell me it is a cow and I'll believe you. Is this learned or are we
trying to do something tactily which really only works effectively using
vision. Is the skill of seeing lines and interpreting them as beautiful
art learned or native for those who see?
I don't mean to be abstract here, but I have gotten so little out of such
things that I wonder whether issues such as resollution and complexity
are getting too much attention.
Gary Wunder
gwunder@bigcat.missouri.edu
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