Suggestion: high relief in plot_gg's text

tylermorganwall / rayshader

R Package for 2D and 3D mapping and data visualization

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Suggestion: high relief in plot_gg's text #88

Closed mateuspestana closed 3 years ago

mateuspestana commented 4 years ago

I was wondering about 3d printing some graphs so blind people could "feel the data", but the text on plots (labels, axis text, title...) won't pass to the .stl file. So, this is my suggestion: is there any possibility of giving the text some relief so we could print the complete graph? Maybe even changing the font to Braille and making it in relief, so it's perfect for blind people.

Any other ideas?

tylermorganwall commented 4 years ago

So I've toyed with this idea myself (see my blog post on 3D printing with rayshader):

brailleplotweb

However, I don't believe most computers have a built-in font for braille, so it's not really possible to build into rayshader. Right now I'm sticking with only data mapping to height, but I might add some additional options for adding, let's say, axes or ticks to relief as well. But I don't expect those features to come anytime soon.

ArturLourenco commented 3 years ago

Hi Tyles, me again. Any news about this feature?

tylermorganwall commented 3 years ago

As promised (particularly the "not anytime soon part"☺️), this has been added in the latest version (4751ab2665fb007719f45982d84be6f5b0b1bbb3).