[Nfb-science] Hello: my introduction

[John Miller]

Hello Kartik,
For raised line drawings, old-fashioned can work the best.
I use braille paper with the raised wheel and looking at the reverse images on the back of the page as Mike's father would make.
I also use a screen board which is a board covered with nyl0on window screening. I draw on braille paper resting on top of the board using a regular ballpoint pen.
The lines are slightly less robust than those of a drawing wheel but much superior in my opinion to the quality from the APH plastic thin pages.
I own a Tiger braille printer that makes good quality graphics from PDF files.
I still use it with a reader as I like to label in braille the drawings myself.
Also, when I try using the Tiger embosser by myself printing graphics to see what they are, I realize just how many of them I do not want to see.
At one minute emboss time per graphic, it is better for me to select which graphic to emboss with a reader and then send it to the Tiger printer.
Both of my parents made many, many graphics to help me get through my undergraduate studies.
I do not believe they made a single graphic for me during my Ph.D studies, though.
So a support network is very helpful.
Very best,
John
 

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-science-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-science-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mike Freeman
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 9:32 AM
To: NFB Science and Engineering Division List
Subject: Re: [Nfb-science] Hello: my introduction

Wen I was in school some forty years ago, I used a reader to draw diagrams for me using a raised-line drawing kit that consists of a rubberized board with thin plastic sheets a la celophane stretched tight across it and deformable with an ordinary pen that stretches the plastic. I think the American Printing House for the Blind has them. My father also used to use regular braille paper, drawing the diagrams in reverse using a tracing wheel such that raised lines came out on the opposite side of the paper. In other words, old-fashioned sometimes works best.

I have a B.A. and M.S. in physics.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kartik Sawhney" <sawhney.kartik at gmail.com>
To: <nfb-science at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 8:47 AM
Subject: [Nfb-science] Hello: my introduction


> Hi,
>
> This is Kartik Sawhney. I am a student of grade 10 in Delhi, India. I
> am very passionate about Sciences, and want to pursue it in the future
> as well. However, I am facing some difficulties as graphics, diagrams
> etc. For instance, topics like electrostatics (including Kirchhoff's
> and Gauss's laws etc.), kinematics, optics etc. Further, I am not very
> conversant with braille (though I know it), as I have been using
> computers to do all my classwork since grade I. I am aiming at
> enrolling in one of the prominent engineering colleges in India,
> however again the entrance examination consists of several figure
> questions in Physics, Chemistry (structures etc.) and Maths. I would
> appreciate if somebody on the list can help me out in this respect.
>
> Anticipating your quick positive reply in the matter,
> Regards,
> -Kartik
>
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