Noah's Ark Tactile Picture Book

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Noah's Ark as transcribed into 8 tactile pictures, including a key. Available Models Frame-Only Binder Holes on Top Binder Holes on Left Available Versions Key Page 1: "Building the Ark" Page 2 : "Gathering Food" Page 3: "Animals Came in Pairs" Page 4: "It Began to Rain and Flood" Page 5: "Ark on a Mountain" Page 6: "Dove with an Olive Leaf" Page 7: "Rainbow Over Ark" Visually impaired children who are in the process of constructing an understanding of their world often learn through guided tactile stimulation and instruction using various means, including tactile pictures. The lack of easily reproducible and customizable tactile pictures in the visually impaired community imposes an educational challenge wherein teachers of the visually impaired (TVIs) must use labor-intensive, time-consuming means to construct meaningful tactile experiences for their students. These designs hope to take advantage of 3D printing technology to create easily printable and customizable tactile pictures. Feel free to modify & customize! How I Designed This Overview All models were designed on CraftML, an XML-style markup language for 3D modeling that includes support for Braille text. Tactile Picture Book Project Further information regarding the effort to transcribe picture books into an accessible tactile format. Designing Noah's Ark in 3D Post detailing my in-depth design process on 3DA11y, a blog dedicated to sharing information about opportunities in 3D accessibility. Updates Changes as of 11/27/2015 Updated pages now feature rounded frames longer captions more space between items on page Specific changes made to the pages include Page 4: wave texture now facing reader (instead of side view) Page 6: filled in hole on dove Page 7: rainbow no longer stretched out