Maybe you saw the vOICe? It has a steep learning curve and does not mesh well with what I want to use it for (and is in grayscale). Also it doesn't do braille output so far as I know.
The vOICe uses sine waves to represent visual data: pitch for vertical position, volume for brightness, and stereo pan for horizontal position. My program treats regions of color as sound sources and positions them in 3D (I did want to use pitch for vertical, but this turned out less effective than I'd hoped), and lets the user map specific colors to wave files.
I'd not mind a head-to-head comparison of the two, once mine has more features. The vOICe has been used in research relating to how vision works neurologically. I'd be all for putting mine through the same hoops once it's stronger.
(You'd think the concept would be an easy sell, much like a free screen reader and electrostatic haptic displays. Of these three, only the free screen reader is catching on, and it's still more or less the Linux to Jaws' Windows.)
Maybe you saw the vOICe?
Thanks for pointing me to that website. Looking at one of the pages, I think what I saw was this:
...On September 16, 1998, the BBC science program Tomorrow's World featured a musical image to sound mapping devised by John Cronly-Dillon, a neurobiologist at the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences at the University of Manchester (UMIST), UK. The broadcast showed examples in which the basic characteristics of transforming shapes into music for hearing images appeared identical to those employed by The vOICe [...] Cronly-Dill
So, to quote myself all those months ago when I first had this idea (I haven't actually posted one of these since the original. funny how that happens):
In an attempt to encourage more people to actually do awesome things (a la instrumental rationality), I am proposing a new monthly thread (can be changed to bi-weekly, should that be demanded). Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to comment on this thread explaining the most awesome thing you've done this month. You may be as blatantly proud of you self as you feel. You may unabashedly consider yourself the coolest freaking person ever because of that awesome thing you're dying to tell everyone about. This is the place to do just that.
Remember, however, that this isn't any kind of progress thread. Nor is it any kind of proposal thread.This thread is solely for people to talk about the awesomest thing they've done all month. not will do. not are working on. have already done.This is to cultivate an environment of object level productivity rather than meta-productivity methods.
Anything not mentioned in a previous bragging thread is still fair game, even If it didn't actually happen in the last month.
So, what's the coolest thing you've done this month?