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Mind’s eye. Blind since the age of 7, Victor Wong
faces a unique challenge as a graduate student at
Cornell University: reading color-scaled maps for his
research on space weather. Braille cannot address the
problem, so he has developed a computer program to
translate different colors on a map into distinct piano
notes. When Wong moves a stylus across the screen, the
software speaks out the coordinates and generates notes
for color codes representing parameters such as
electron density. The sounds help provide a sense of
what the data look like “when viewed visually,” he
says. Wong,who developed the tool in collaboration with
fellow student Ankur Moitra (far left) and research
associate James Ferwerda, says the next step is telling
the user when the stylus has crossed over from land to
sea.