• Added "Visor" Code

    Les Hall • 05/11/2017 at 12:36 • 0 comments

    I just got excited about the possibilities here so I coded up a quick example of a visor scanner anduploaded it to this GitHub link. Worth a look and I'll be updating it most likely.

    praise the Lord

    Les

  • Geordi La Forge's Visor?

    Les Hall • 05/11/2017 at 11:40 • 0 comments

    I got to thinking about the visor worn by the Star Trek character Geordi La Forge (actor LeVar Burton) and how relevant it is to this project. Based on the wrap-around shape of the visor and the line-scanning mode of the Photosound software that NoodleDriver told me about, it occurred to me that we could combine the two to make the BlindSight software work.

    The technique will be to make each pixel or group of pixels a sound source and then locate them all in spatial arrangement around the listener's head. Then sweep the image from bottom to top (or top to bottom selectable), over and over. This would produce a real-time encoding of an image for blind people to perceive!

    I'm very excited about it and plan to code up a simple example in Processing right now! Hope to have something soon.

    Les out, praise the Lord!

  • Introducing NoodleDriver

    Les Hall • 05/11/2017 at 11:19 • 0 comments

    Welcome NoodleDriver to the project; we are sure to get plenty of help from this friend of mine from Ireland as he tells me he has a Diploma in Audio Engineering. We were just chatting about the project and NoodleDriver informed me of some existing work that can convert an image into a song. The program is called Photo Sounder. It is available at photosounder.com and NoodleDriver just played for me on Skype, the sound of his own image!

    I had thought of much simpler techniques and had in mind an FFT of the image played as a time-spectrum; apparently this is readily available in software written by others. This is such great news! I'm really impressed with the audio I'm hearing at this moment over Skype. We are testing different images. So now we are having fun with it! I better go, so WELCOME NoodleDriver!