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3D portraits give blind students a feel of their faces (wthr.com)
submitted by LittleLauraKaye
connorheyz 8 points 4y ago
Cant they already feel their faces?
BlindWarriorGurl 1 points 4y ago
Can’t you already see your face in the mirror?
cookieinaloop 0 points 4y ago
Right?
LittleLauraKaye [OP] 1 points 4y ago
Maybe you want to be able to remember them when they’re not around? Just like the sighted world looks at pictures as memories? Or maybe they’re people you’ve heard of but don’t know personally?
cookieinaloop 2 points 4y ago
I can see the point of it in the second case you mentioned. The first one, not really. If the person was important enough to the blind person that it was justified to go through all this (I bet expensive) process of making a model of their faces, I think the blind person could remember the feel of their faces pretty fine.
Blind people don't retrieve and gather information in the same way sighted people do. Sighted people see everyone's faces, a lot of faces all the time, so it makes sense for them to have pictures of the most important ones, personally and historically. Blind people don't see faces. We remember people in a different way. Of course it should be cool for a blind person to have a 3D model of a face to feel but then it would be just one sole printed face with no echo inside them. We don't have memory of hundreds printed faces to relate it to as sighted people do with images.
Blind people don't retrieve and gather information in the same way sighted people do. Sighted people see everyone's faces, a lot of faces all the time, so it makes sense for them to have pictures of the most important ones, personally and historically. Blind people don't see faces. We remember people in a different way. Of course it should be cool for a blind person to have a 3D model of a face to feel but then it would be just one sole printed face with no echo inside them. We don't have memory of hundreds printed faces to relate it to as sighted people do with images.
SpikeTheCookie 4 points 4y ago
Oh, that's very cool!
In the US senior portraits are such a big deal, and they're planned out in great detail, clothes, hair, location, etc.
It's a lot like getting a wedding photo done, for some. So the senior portrait is not about what other people look like, it's about this specific milestone in your life and having a souvenir of what you looked like, in that moment of celebration.
This gives these high school students a similar experience of what it's like to have a senior photo, to capture what you look like at the moment of achieving a 12 year goal.
Very cool!
In the US senior portraits are such a big deal, and they're planned out in great detail, clothes, hair, location, etc.
It's a lot like getting a wedding photo done, for some. So the senior portrait is not about what other people look like, it's about this specific milestone in your life and having a souvenir of what you looked like, in that moment of celebration.
This gives these high school students a similar experience of what it's like to have a senior photo, to capture what you look like at the moment of achieving a 12 year goal.
Very cool!
LittleLauraKaye [OP] 2 points 4y ago
I don’t remember if it’s mentioned in the video, but one student said to another, “I didn’t know you had a beard!” Things the sighted world takes for granted.
cookieinaloop 4 points 4y ago
We don't need portraits, we can feel out faces .-.
LittleLauraKaye [OP] 2 points 4y ago
Interestingly enough, one student commented to another that he didn’t know his friend had a beard.
cookieinaloop 1 points 4y ago
That's because they didn't have the kind of relationship where he could touch his friend's face.
I mean, I could understand if this was to be done using a portrait of historically important people so that the blind could know what they were like (still pointless to me, but you can see why people could find this important). But with classmates I'd say the best way to know them was by just touching their faces, as in a big tactile get-to-know first day of school.
I mean, I could understand if this was to be done using a portrait of historically important people so that the blind could know what they were like (still pointless to me, but you can see why people could find this important). But with classmates I'd say the best way to know them was by just touching their faces, as in a big tactile get-to-know first day of school.
LittleLauraKaye [OP] 1 points 4y ago
My daughter just graduated from the school and she is not a face toucher.
cookieinaloop 1 points 4y ago
Then she probably doesn't rely on faces to recognize people.
BlueRock956 2 points 4y ago
For most blind folk, it’s kind of weird touching faces. You see that mainly in movies.
DazzliTraci972 2 points 4y ago
I like this idea. My friend has been blind for a few years and has never seen her husband's face. Might make her happy to have a picture of them together in one 3D print.
LittleLauraKaye [OP] 1 points 4y ago
Isn’t it amazing?
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