[BlindMath] Any Affordable Tactile displays to analyze graphs and charts

[David Andrews]

The Canude is a multi-line display, but the lines are separated by 
some space, so I don't know that you would get a coherent picture -- 
even if it displayed graphics -- and I don't know if it can do this.

Dave

At 11:41 AM 5/12/2021, Neal via BlindMath wrote:
>FYI: Not sure if this will work for your needs but,
>
>~$2,500US gets you 9 lines of 40 cells
>  Canute 360 built by http://bristolbraille.co.uk/
>Full Spec at:
>https://github.com/Bristol-Braille/canute-ui/wiki/Canute-360-Technical-Speci
>fication
>
>US DEALERS INCLUDE:
>https://www.dancingdots.com/
>https://www.atguys.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=34&produ
>cts_id=312
>http://www.americanthermoform.com/product/canute-braille-ereader/
>
> From their lit: MUSIC, MATHS, TABLES, DIAGRAMS & LITERATURE
>Canute 360 is ideal for use at home, the classroom or the office.
>
>Literature, musical notation, charts, graphs, mathematics, tables and
>spacial diagrams. All these are hugely more practical on a nine-line
>refreshable Braille display than a single line display, ream of embossed
>paper or through text-to-speech.
>
>For schools and educational institutions Canute can drastically increase
>availability of Braille material. It reads all pre-formatted Braille Ready
>Files (BRF) and Portable Embosser Files (PEF), meaning you can read texts
>from Bookshare, the RNIB Library or any other Braille library in the world.
>Using transcription software such as Duxbury DBT or Braille Blaster any
>digital text file can be transferred to and read on Canute.
>
>The Canute's 'hard' signage quality Braille makes Canute ideal for beginners
>and young children learning Braille.
>
>Cheers,
>Neal
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: BlindMath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Brandon
>Keith Biggs via BlindMath
>Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 12:31 PM
>To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
>Cc: Brandon Keith Biggs
>Subject: Re: [BlindMath] Any Affordable Tactile displays to analyze graphs
>and charts
>
>Hello Rejin,
>That is the least expensive multiline tactile display. If you want to work
>on inventing a less expensive multiline tactile display, there is
>definitely a very low level of competition and high level of need!
>You may want to check out Sonification tools:
>http://sonify.psych.gatech.edu/research/sonification_sandbox/
>Or the web version:
>http://editor.highcharts.com/sonification-studio/#/
>or
>https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/audiographs/1078303178825
>or
>http://support.sas.com/software/products/graphics-accelerator/
>
>These have a significantly smaller price tag, and get the job done for the
>most part.
>If you really want tactile graphics, then I would recommend one of the
>swell paper machines:
>https://store.humanware.com/hus/piaf-picture-in-a-flash-tactile-graphic-make
>r.html
>or an inexpensive tactile embosser:
>https://viewplus.com/product/vp-embraille/
>Hope this helps!
>Thanks,
>
>Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>
>
>
>On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 9:13 AM Rejin Jose k. via BlindMath <
>blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > Hope everyone is staying safe.
> > I'm writing to get some recommendations for tactile displays.
> > When I have searched for it, I found this one:
> > http://www.orbitresearch.com/product/graphiti/
> > It is heavily priced(almost $24000)
> > My use case is to analyze graphs and charts while doing the data
> > analysis for my machine learning projects. So essentially I am looking
> > for a tactile alternative for the data visualizations.
> > It might not be simple 2D plots. It might be little more complicated
> > visualizations.
> >
> > Does braille display can serve this use case?
> >
> > Note : I dont know braille. I am totally depending on screen readers
> > and text to speech.
> >
> > --
> > With Warm Regards,
> > Rejin Jose
> > email:m2rejin at gmail.com