Unbidden, his brain called up vivid tactile images of last night.

The tactile image is produced by hundreds of activators placed on the person.

Each line drawn on the cardboard rises slightly, thus producing a tactile image.

It is difficult to tell from his smile what pleases him more, the arcane fact or the tactile image.

The difference was between communicating using two dimensional tactile images versus an 8 point code.

These included a pivotal visual substitution method for blind people provided by tactile image projection in 1969.

The tactile image is then projected onto the tongue via the ribbon cable where the tongue's receptors pick up the signal.

A niche application of plotters is in creating tactile images for visually handicapped people on special thermal cell paper.

Of course, none were familiar with recognizing vibratory tactile images of letters moving across their index finger.

A video camera records a picture, transfers it to the TDU for conversion into a tactile image.

The computer simulation presented tactile images of perfectly formed and aligned letters in a stream that moved across the bimorph array.

They use electro-mechanical parts to dynamically update a tactile image (usually of text) so that the image may be felt by the fingers.

She said the response to the book was partly triggered by the fact that braille readers take in information through their fingers, so they appreciate tactile images.

"Black Cherry Leaves," a negative, is a spare, beautifully tactile image of two leaves silhouetted in white against a dark sepia background.

Rods are vibrated that correspond to black parts of the image, thus forming a tactile image of the letter being viewed by the camera module.

A key aspect of Linvill's concept was to use vibrating piezoelectric reeds, called bimorphs, to move the pins in a two-dimensional array to produce tactile images.

Modestly small and honestly square, each is unique, offering a glossy, tactile image far different from the pixels of cyberspace or the matte finish of Xerox reproductions.

As the user moves the lens module along the print line, tactile images of print letters are felt moving across the array of rods under the user's finger.

In scenes that alternate between sallying forth into the world and returning home for comfort, the writer evokes the strong connection between mother and daughter with wonderfully tactile images.

Though Stieglitz initiated the portrait and printed hundreds of exquisitely tactile images in silver, palladium and platinum, O'Keeffe had just as much to do with shaping it.

Recently, several new systems have been developed that interface the tactile image to tactile receptors on different areas of the body such as the on the chest, brow, fingertip, abdomen, and forehead.

That is but one example of why the Blumbergs see their collection as an invaluable reference library: millions of tactile images, all cataloged, giving specific detail to the past and offering creative energy for the future.

A tactile image comes to mind: the softened squares of the covers of LP's, some of them recordings my mother bought when she was in college, that adorned the edges of my childhood.

Instead, Ms. Willard uses her poetic gifts to illuminate the ordinary events of life, and to transform the emotions of daily life - joy, sadness, loneliness and hope - into palpable, almost tactile images.

It may be said that the tactile images are merely present, without any accompanying belief; but I think this view, though sometimes correct, derives its plausibility as a general proposition from our thinking of explicit conscious belief only.