Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, Portsmouth University - Visually impaired people helped to ‘see’ Universe

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Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, Portsmouth University - Visually impaired people helped to ‘see’ Universe

Post by starbrush » Fri Feb 03, 2017 3:57 pm

http://www.icg.port.ac.uk/2017/01/visua ... -universe/
Also Twitter @TactileUniverse

Here you can read about ICG's 3D printing of astronomical imagery. Asterisms become stippled terrains, galaxies like whirls of sand under the fingertips.

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