For the visually impaired, the basic problem with art is that, well, they can’t see it, the Washington Post reports. But with a project called “Midas Touch” a group of Harvard kids say they have a fix: Use 3D printing to help the blind ‘see’ what they cannot actually see. “We want to bridge the gap between the visually impaired and the visual world of art,” Constantine Tarabanis, one of the brains behind the project, told me. Basically, what Midas Touch does is take a flat image — say, of Starry Night — and use 3D printing to add layers of texture to it, creating an image that’s half painting, half relief sculpture. Essentially, Midas Touch takes the visual nature of art and translates it to a physical world that the visually impaired can understand…
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