Taking Aim

[BobD]

What strikes me the most about the first design you posted, Carl, is the strong use of a central vanishing point--that is what gives the entire scene perspective...

Hmnnn...the scenic designer in me is warming up...I haven't been interested in theatre for a couple years now (Bad community theatre experience)...but now...I want to use my designing skills again.....

Bob

[Marcel in Longueuil]

Kevin,

Although magnificient, the pictures on that site relate to high speed photography using a flash

And although a Flash is referred to as a strobe, that is not what I thought you meant when you referred to strobe photograhy.

I imagined a series of imaged captured by multiple flashes on the same frame, that is what I would call a strobe (stroboscopic) effect.

like the following picture (not the best scrollable example, but a good stroboscopic one)

Regards,
Marcel

[Jediscroller]

Marcel,
That be the one!!! I had a heck of a time finding any examples of that type. Two sides of the same coin however. Similar techniques and equipment are employed.
I've seen this done with as few as 2 exposures and as many as you're showing here. With the right equipment it's not too difficult.

[CanadianScroller]

The subject of textures has come up a few times. I have to deal with some textures and scrolling for a future project. I have been asked by a coworker to design a jigsaw puzzle. The puzzle won't be an ordinary one. It has to be made so blind people can assemble it.

It would not be too hard to make a puzzle that can only be assembled one way if I took a dowel and cut the jigsaw segments out of it, but to do a picture on a flat puzzle will be a challenge.

I am thinking of doing a textured segmentation picture, Gluing the entire picture to a backer and cutting it into jigsaw shaped pieces.
I know I can leave the shapes of the segmentation as is but I think the jigsaw shapes would be fun and add to the tactile experience.
I think MDF would really lend itself to this.
Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.

[Gill]

Could you not cut out a piece of fretwork, glue it to a baseboard, then cut the baseboard into conventional jigsaw pieces?

Hang on... that approach sounds so easy that I must be missing the point somewhere!



Gill

[CanadianScroller]

Not missing the point at all Gill.

My thoughts were, I could cut a perfect kangaroo, but what if the person doing the puzzle had never seen a kangaroo.

I thought that the texture would add some tactile variation into the puzzle.

This is just a thought, nothing cut in stone yet.
I had just recently done a puzzle where all the pieces were the same, Michelle, the lady at work said she would like to try it.
Although, if my cutting was perfect, which it is not, She could assemble the puzzle, the image would not make any sense.

We have been discussing other scrolled and crafted items for visually impaired people. I have a diagram for a braille necklace that can make any letter you want it to. I also found a plan for a drawing board for blind people where they can feel the image. The tactile aspect of the puzzle has to play a large part, otherwise it is like doing a jigsaw with no picture.

[Jediscroller]

Carl,
I had a thought (leave it alone Gill! hehehe). The catch is trying to put this in words. I'm thinking ridges (more like humps) throughout the puzzle on one side. Shape the board, then cut the puzzle. In the end, you'd be lining up bumps with the puzzle pieces. A small sanding drum crisscrossed on the board would make valleys and peaks, once cut into puzzle shapes it would be quite interesting to match them up.
It came to me as I hit send. An example of what I'm thinking of is a 3-d topographical map.

[Gill]

It sounds to me as if you're describing something like a relief cut, Kevin. I considered this too, then wondered if it wouldn't be more trouble than it was worth when you could just cut a fret design and glue it to a baseboard to achieve the same result.

Carl - are you saying that if the puzzle depicts a kangaroo it should literally feel like a kangaroo? I suppose you could cement fabric to a baseboard which would represent the kangaroo, but how would you cut it without having fabric wrapped around your blade?

Sometimes I think we have to accept that there's a limit to what our resourcefulness can achieve with our chosen medium!

Gill

[CanadianScroller]

I know there are limits Gill but I always push the limits, just ask my wife and my boss
I was actually thinking of relief or intarsia.

Kevin, your sanded textures are a great idea!
I could aslo cut that topographical effect with multiple layers, just like a contour map.

Gill, gluing textures on the puzzle after had never crossed my mind.
I could use things like suede or silk sandwiched between two boards.
Heck I could even use different grades of sandpaper glued to the wood and make a picture like that.

Thanks for the ideas

[Marcel in Longueuil]

Carl,

You could also consider the locking tabs as forms.

You could make a flat puzzle without a drawing on it, as for the visually able people, and by making the locking tabs noticeably different the person would have to feel their way in pairing them in order to reassemble the puzzle.

That is the interesting part of scrolling, you can cut the different shapes easily.

Picture: arrows, hearts, animal shapes, flowery shapes, spirals, etc.

You could even make different degrees of challenge by making the shapes smaller and cutting more pieces, cutting different combinations of the same shapes on different pieces, or making shapes similar but not quite the same.

Package them with a blindfold and you just opened a new game niche (I want royalties, just kidding)

Regards,
Marcel