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                          Art of seeing without sight
                                        
> So, we ask, how do you know how long these poles should be as they recede?
> I was taught, he says. Not by any formal teacher, but by casual comments by
> friends and acquaintances. How do you know about shadows? He learned that
> too. He confides that for a long time he figured that if an object was red,
> its shadow would be red too. “But I was told it wasn't,” he says. But how
> do you know about red? He knows that there's an important visual quality to
> seen objects called “colour” and that it varies from object to object. He's
> memorised what has what colour and even which ones clash.
> 

Via Jason Kottke [1], “Senses special: The art of seeing without sight [2]”

An artist who can draw complicated scenes upon request, despite the rather
small handicap of being blind—a very interesting article indeed.

[1] http://www.kottke.org/remainder/05/02/7463.html
[2] http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-

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