Touch Light Through the Leaves: a tactile display for light and shadow

You can feel something good and comfortable when you turn your palms up and the light falling onto your palms through the trees. "Touch Light Through the Leaves" begins from an imagination which we can touch the light through the leaves. We propose "Touch Light Through the Leaves". It is a novel tactile camera display which can change visible information into tactile. It is not only a sensor of light and shadow but also a tactile display. You can feel the transition of light and shadow by your palms directly with it. You can touch the light and also can be touched by the light. Sound-Lens [Iwai 2001] is based on a similar idea. You can hear light with it. It can change light to sound.

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