Expedited Award: Development of an Anatomical Atlas for the Blind

这是加急奖。本研究的目的是为盲人制作解剖图谱。这项研究将主要产生足够清晰的触觉解剖图，使盲人学生能够生动地理解复杂的结构细节。此外，它将解决计算机和自动化技术用于制作图形插图的问题，以制作详细的触觉图表，使盲人能够学习解剖学。本研究开辟了解剖学领域，为盲人智力发展开辟了一条新的重要途径；然而，它有更广泛的含义。这一研究很有可能开启从二维图像中产生触觉图形的计算机手段的发展。因此，这项研究可以开创一个全新的技术领域，可以让盲人和非盲人都能感知的三维图形，从盲人完全无法感知的平面图片中构建出来。

This is an Expedited award. The purpose of this research is to produce an Anatomical Atlas for the Blind. This research will, primarily, produce tactile anatomical diagrams of sufficient clarity that a blind student will achieve a vivid understanding of intricate structural details. In addition it will address the issue of computer and automated technology to be used in the production of graphic illustrations to produce detailed tactile diagrams that would permit the blind to study anatomy. This research will give to the blind a new and important avenue for intellectual development by opening up the field of anatomy; however, it has much broader implications. It is very possible that this research will initiate the development of computer means to produce tactile graphs from two dimensional pictures. Thus, this research could initiate a whole new field of technology which could permit three dimensional figures, which the blind and non-blind could perceive, to be constructed from flat pictures, which are completely unaccessible to the blind persons senses.