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Understand distance.
Depth Anything estimates relative spatial depth from a single photograph, directly on your device.
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IMAGE AI × ACCESSIBLE DESIGN / 2026
What if you could feel a photograph?
An image holds an entire world. Touchscape uses on-device vision models to translate its shapes, depth, and meaning into a tactile-inspired draft you can refine for specialist printing.
✳ Real depth + segmentation models available
✳ Runs in your browser. No photo uploads.
FROM PIXELS TO PATTERNSVISUAL EXPERIMENT / 001
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01 / ORIGINAL02 / TRANSLATED
THE WORLD, REDRAWN ✳
02real AI vision models
100%in-browser processing
SVGeditable vector output
∞images to discover
THE STUDIO / VERSION 1.3
From seeing to feeling.
Upload a scene. Let the AI discover its layers. Shape its tactile translation, then export a vector prototype.
LIVE CANVAS
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Coastline studyILLUSTRATIVE SAMPLE
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Experimental vector draft — not validated tactile graphics. Depth is relative, segmentation can misidentify objects, and true tactile production needs specialist review, sizing, and user testing. The Unicode braille legend is a visual representation, not an embossing instruction.
THE PIPELINE
More than a pretty filter.
Two neural networks feed a deterministic geometry engine. Every contour in your output comes from image-derived structure, not decorative effects.
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Separate the world.
SegFormer maps semantic regions, allowing the tactile result to retain meaningful boundaries and a navigable legend.
SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION ↗
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Design for touch.
A custom marching-squares engine extracts vector contours, simplifies lines, adds tactile patterns, and builds SVG.
VECTOR GEOMETRY ↗
WHY IT MATTERS
Art shouldn't stop at sight.
Photographs, learning materials, and personal memories are overwhelmingly visual. Tactile diagrams are often expensive and labor-intensive to prepare. Touchscape explores a new first step: let AI generate an editable tactile draft, then let people refine it together.
Create a tactile draft ↗FEEL
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