Tactile examples

This selection of bone cell diagrams was sent to us as part of a pilot for the University College of Osteopathy, London UK.

The original diagram was provided by lecturers and adjusted to create 3D alternatives for a student.

This is a 3D tactile map of Canterbury Cathedral. The Cathedral hands out paper tactile maps on request. We adjusted the paper tactile map to create a 3D printable alternative.

This model has kept the raised letter labelling matched to the original paper map. We will make a Braille labelled version if requested.

Dover castle is a historic English Heritage site and a place I have visited many times during my childhood as a local of the area.

I created this as a test piece for a tactile contour map that had the main elements of the castle walls and buildings overlaid onto the contours.

This flow diagram is a representation of a tool we use to help better consider responsibilities for 3rd party software under the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018.

This set of four flower tactile graphics are reproductions of tactile stone carvings on display in the Wellbeing Garden at the Royal Horticultural Society in Wisley. The four original stone carvings were created by R.Dien, and photos taken by J Dracott at the London School of Economics.

This floorplan was taken from Rightmove as an example of a 3 bedroom house as part of a new build development.

We converted the original floorplan to create a 3D tactile alternative including some furniture and fixtures including bathrooms, sinks, stovetops, and beds.

The floorplan covers a ground floor and first floor with interconnecting stairs.

This model represents a selection of pie chart representation options. With this model we wanted to try out different ways of showing pie charts and better understand which version worked better to convey the information for a blind user.

These scatter plot diagrams were originally published by Davy Landman in a Stack Exchange question October 2014.

It is not known what the scatter plots represent, but these were chosen as a trial tactile example because of the density of the examples which give a very interesting result when converted to tactile format.