fastfinge 1 points 5y ago
Maybe or maybe not. The important thing to remember is that raised shapes aren't experienced visually, so it can create quite a different impression. With your eyes, you can look at something, and get an overview of the entire thing quickly. Touch is much more granular, and lends itself to a more detailed, and slower, experience of an object. Also, colour and texture are quite different experiences, as far as I can tell. So things that work visually may not work tactilely. Also, tactile information is just processed differently. And I might not have the context to recognize things that would be obvious to someone visually. Statues and figurines are a good example. I can never identify them unless someone tells me what to look for, first. Then I can usually pick out the unique/interesting parts. But even though a figurine is perfectly obvious visually, I've never scene the character in question, and so touching it just doesn't draw any obvious connections for me. And after I touch a figure of, say, a famous movie character, it doesn't change the way I imagine that character in my head. That figure and that character just aren't strongly connected for me, even after I've been told what it is.