[optacon-l] Re: Print Simetry
- From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:07:24 -0500
Hi Tracy!
This is another sweet story. I'm glad you could make out the image of the
dog. The Optacon is the only thing that will let us do something as
wonderful as figuring out what an image is.
Debby
At 07:13 AM 7/17/2012, Tracy Carcione wrote
>My mother passed away a few years ago. I kept one of the business cards
>she designed for her wolfhound kennel. I was looking at it the other day
>with my Optacon. I could see how she'd laid it out, and see the wolfhound
>picture she'd put on it. I had thought it was only a head, but, when I
>looked, I saw it was the whole dog. It was neat to look at the image, and
>to look at something my mother had created.
>Tracy
>
> > Hi, Everyone,
> > As most of you know, I work as a braille transcriber. Today, working with
> > a print document and the Optacon, I read a complex table. It was relly
> > pretty, visually speaking--nice neat columns with headings at the top of
> > each one with all kinds of neat separation lines. I could appreciate it's
> > visual appeal and it made me sad that I had to modify it to convey the
> > same information in braille.
> >
> > It got me to thinking about the many images I've seen over the years
> > because of the Optacon. To name a few: a crosword puzzle grid; a New York
> > Times want ad; entries in a big fat telephone book; enties in dictionary;
> > the various cute shapes of print bullets; bi-directional printing phrases
> > running at 90 degrees to the rest of the print; entries in a TV guide and
> > other TV listings; differences in the shapes of the letters in diffeerent
> > fonts or typefaces; a music staff; labels in diagrams, etc. etc. etc.
> >
> > All these things I've seen with the Optacon and thousands of other things
> > besides. For this aspect of the Optacon, I am truly grateful.
> > Catherine
> >
> >
> >
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> > -Catherine Thomas
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