Citations:tactilize

English citations of tactilize

form a mental representation of what something feels like to touch

• 2007, Oliver Grau, Professor for Image Science and Dean of the Department for Cultural Studies Oliver Grau, MediaArtHistories, Mit Press

  NanoScape ( 2002 ) uses powerful magnetic forces to “tactilize” (visualize would not be the right word) the invisible nanolevel phenomena. The interface is a ringlike device worn by the user; by moving one's hand over a special table one ...

• 2011, Andrew Cutting, Missions for Thoughtful Gamers, Lulu.com (→ISBN), page 51:

  ... was based on my memories of sound and touch. I auralized and tactilized it, so to speak. [...] In his adventure at Arkham Asylum, Batman follows various scent-trails, but these must be visualized for the player. Though laboratory chemists can  ...

• 2012, Douglas Robinson, Becoming a Translator: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation, Routledge (→ISBN), page 104:

  Think of the house pets of your childhood; visualize them, tactilize them, imagine yourself holding them in your lap or rolling around on the floor with them (whatever you did in close contact with them); remember whether you loved them […]

• 2014, Cretien van Campen, The Proust Effect: The Senses as Doorways to Lost Memories, OUP Oxford (→ISBN), page 137:

  The art of remembering means visualizing information in images, though of course you could also 'audialize' it, by turning it into a song; 'tactilize' it by associating it with a touch; 'olfactorize' it by associating it with smell information; and ...

• 2016, Susan Letzler Cole, Serious Daring: The Fiction and Photography of Eudora Welty and Rosamond Purcell, University of Arkansas Press (→ISBN), page 121:

  "[W]e don't audibilize, tactilize, gustalize, or olfactorize, any more than we have a counterpart in the other senses for what it is to picture something." […]

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• 1965, Edward Estlin Cummings, A Miscellany Revised

  ... economy of form through the elimination of unessentials; it means form which completely expresses itself, form that perfectly tactilizes the beholder, as in the case of an electric machine which, being grasped, will not let the hand let go.

• 1989, Mosaic, page 33:

  The processor tactilizes by transducing a signal into a physiochemical pattern that enzymes can recognize by touching it. This processor, on which Conrad is Evolving automata. Downward cascade models the sequential activity of Conrad's ...

• 2008, Justus Nieland, Feeling Modern: The Eccentricities of Public Life, University of Illinois Press (→ISBN), page 111:

  At times, Cummings attempts to deliver the singular Mountain to the sensation of the myriad by celebrating Lachaise's unique treatment of form, “which completely expresses itself, form that perfectly tactilizes the beholder, as in the case of an ...

• 2009, Yoke-Sum Wong, Derek Sayer, Twenty Years of the Journal of Historical Sociology: Volume 2: Challenging the Field, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN), page 30:

  Commodity fetishization makes possible a rethinking of the oedipal circuit in the household and tactilizes the unconscious. The tissue of the unconscious is composed of things like blue velvet cushions, hardwood floors, the cold porcelain in ...

• 2012, Carl Bourgeois, Karen Maex, Kris Scheerlinck, Yves Schoonjans, Margarita Greene, Chris Van Keer, Liesbeth Huybrechts, Hilde Heynen, Richard Blythe, Johan Verbeke, Frank van der Hoeven, Guy Van Kerckhoven, Good Practices / Best Practices: A Manifesto for Academic Design Education and Research on Creative Practice, KU Leuven (→ISBN), page 38:

  The four main points in which they differ are visualized in the scheme below (Table 1). ... Finally, the authors recommend allowing designers to take the lead in representing (visualizing or tactilizing) field data and other elements that mediate  ...

make touchable

• 1969, Remigius C. Kwant, Phenomenology of Expression, Pittsburgh : Duquesne University Press

  As an intentional subject, the body visualizes, “sonorizes” and tactilizes reality, i.e., it constitutes reality as a visual, sonorous, tactile field, etc. There occurs here an expressive activity which is so profound that it runs its course on the ...

• 2008, Garrett Stewart, Framed Time: Toward a Postfilmic Cinema, University of Chicago Press (→ISBN)

  A narratology of the biographic loop is tactilized, made almost palpable, by devices of the strip that call out for a corresponding narratography of temporal overlap, whether in the doubling or the subtraction of presence, whether in a past  ...