Puppy birthday!

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No ASCII cake for them, but the girls are five months old today. Photos tomorrow, as they went to the vet and the dog park today and are very tired.

Comments

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

1. CAN IREQUEST AN ASCII-CAKE FOR MYBDAY? I JSUT REALIZED (ADN SMACK MSYEFL FOR NEVER CLICKIGN ONTHEM) THAT IACUTALY CAN SEE THIS KIDN OF IMAGE.
2. ASCII MINI-BONES THEN? WHY NOT? IS HTAT POSSIBLE AT ALL?
3. I'M WOIDNERING IF BLIND PEOPLE CAN ALSO DO ASCII ART.

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1. But of course!
2. Hee. Don't see why not, but a backwards three (ASCII Cyrillic?) would be helpful for that one.
3. Wow. Now that's an interesting thought. I mean, sure, the mechanics of ASCIIart would just be choosing the right characters... but since you're using a reader of some sort, I imagine, the interpretation of the result... [thinks].

Now, if you had something that would emboss the literal characters instead of the Braille symbols, that would be the way to go, since ASCIIart is all about percieved light/dark contrasts. That would work pretty well as a texture as well as an image (raised/flat). You could feel the art and I think get much the same impression as someone else merely seeing it.

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

perceivd light/dark contrasts? ithoguthi t was allabout makign shapes ala linedrawigns jsut by pickign out typogrpahic stuff and formating ittheright way. ieman smilies are the simplest one ofthat right?



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dd this look lieka broomstick? i'menvisioning the backslashes to be astack of twigs and theunderscores (I hope they ae vertical) as a long handle.
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adn htis was asnitch. ;P see ifthe experiment works.

as for makign the black&whtie presentation into soemthign tactile, personaly i'm one ofthe lucky ones who, before comptuers wre made accessible to blind people, got lessons how to usea certian device that did exaclt ywhaty ou're talkgin about ,or atlest it w a start.
foud nthrough google: an article about the optacon
*isso distracted she forgot a tv programem she marked to watchand now she falls inlate* hmph..go and google the rest yourself. i'd say gadget alert!! to you and by now ican't believe ilsot interest i nthet hing. adn also , i can't believe while iwas writing m yblind mary-sue into m yfirsth p novel that the readign device wasnt' based onsomething liek this. :P

anyway the author of this articleactually wodners aloud why no-oen has thoguth of combinign this technology with comptuer techs that the ywere workign onbakcwhen she wrote this.
the oen thign theyr'e doing now is tryign to improve and refine ocr systems and scannersoftware. but nwo that ireda her stuff i sudenl ywatn abookshelffull of hp books and (thoug hit used to make soem kid nof noise that was bit irritating) read with abook or magaizne onm ylap instead of sitting at adesk. *ponders* wel lgodo luck figuring this-oen out. perhpas we coud lfor ma partnership at some point?
adn ocnei meetyo ui nperson i'l show ou hwo can stl write blackandwhite letters onpaper.

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AND CONGRATS LIGHT ARK TRACK*