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| These examples were produced in Photo-Paint by Betsy, using a trackball as her pointing device. Included are some remarks from her husband. We hope that computer technology continues to improve and open even more doors for Robert and Betsy in the future. | |
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Sorry—my snail-paced typing
leads me to compress communications, with loss of details. Athetosis is
one of five types of cerebral palsy. We lack feedback which limits
motion—overshoot our target, sometimes by six inches or more. The writer was in the vanguard of athetoids; who did not survive prior to the 20’s. He escaped conventional education—a rare honor bestowed on avant garde populations. He was told that, as he had a large vocabulary, he should write... he did, for several decades, robbing world literatures of jewels beyond price, re-setting said gems in baroque miniatures. (Hans Christian Andersen did likewise, a century earlier, and got away with it—the Little Mermaid was Japanese.)The artsy one (Betsy) was a bit later in the developmental sequence. For her, there was the special school. For her, there was a peer-group. Yet to be shaped, were the insights as to the nature and effects of dyslexia, of scrambled dominance, and of image-reversals. And her physical involvement masked her extreme corneal curvature, a difficulty not spotted until well into her fourth decade. She was always making things, often to the puzzlement of the recipient of her creations. For her, the capability of placing a point of color just where she wants it is wonderous. When she mastered the masking function in PhotoPaint 6, much of the chaos vanished away. As that thing fills the ram with fragmented images, slowing, then freezing the machine. she has learned how to back out of the masking, a careful step at a time, thus freeing the memory, and reducing the overhead carried into each operation. We can be reached by E-mail, at kherub@idcnet.com |
