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| ▲ | ctoth a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Oh no. I'm a blind guy. I have a distinct interest in starships -- I have every Eaglemoss model, and many many more. If I click this link I am totally going to get sucked into having people design and print me starships -- I need another project like I need another hole in my head. | | |
| ▲ | tdeck a day ago | parent | next [-] | | If you live in the US (and possibly other countries) and are blind, you can probably get See3D to model things and print them for you for free. http://see3d.org/ | |
| ▲ | UltraSane a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | I have always wondered how blind people "visualize" (I can't think of a better term) large scale objects. | | |
| ▲ | bell-cot a day ago | parent [-] | | I've no idea. But flipside, I know quite a few sighted people who can't walk around a rectangular block without losing track of which way north is. Or can't visualize that (say) their master bedroom closet backs up to their kitchen. Or other facepalm-worthy visualization failings. | | |
| ▲ | toast0 a day ago | parent | next [-] | | > without losing track of which way north is. I blame my childhood. Everyone always said the Pacific Ocean is to the west. So naturally the direction I went to go to the beach on the pacific ocean should be West. Especially when the north/south freeway crosses the street I take to the beach at a pretty good angle (well it's more like 45 degrees). Turns out I actually go south to go to the beach, the freeway is roughly parallel to the coast and north/south freeways sometimes travel due east/west and I have a real hard time with cardinal directions, and even if I understand where the directions are when outside, when I enter a building, especially if I go up stairs or an elevator, my sense of where the cardinal directions from inside the building is likely to be way off. Thankfully, there's not a big impact from not knowing where room walls are relative to each other. :P | | |
| ▲ | coryrc a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Similarly, I live in Seattle with hills everywhere, but the main path I used to go uphill was Southbound. But on maps, up is always North. I haven't recovered since! | |
| ▲ | bell-cot a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Thankfully, there's not a big impact from not knowing where room walls are relative to... Let me tell you about the friend-of-friend, who was cutting holes in his dining room wall to install [whatever], oblivious to the bathroom on the other side, and the water pipes for that bathroom... | | |
| ▲ | toast0 a day ago | parent [-] | | Don't they make special anchors for mounting your TV on PVC sewer pipes? Should be fine. ;) |
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| ▲ | UltraSane a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | I have never been able to use cardinal directions but I am very good at mental visualization and manipulation of 3d objects |
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| ▲ | vunderba a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | This is super cool. Apparently he also creates tactile topographical maps with various landmarks, terrain, etc. https://evengrounds.com/3d-tactile-maps I'm not at all confident in my ability to take an unknown object, run my hands over it, manipulate it, and even get close to being able to describing / recreating it though it does sound like this has the makings of a fun Cranium board mini-game. |
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