Describe an animal without using the verb look. Can you effectively provide an alternative method for interpreting complex microscopy images while preserving the length scale? The world is filled with features too small for our eyes to see: the setae on a gecko's feet, the cuticles covering a rat's whisker, or the fuzziness of a bat's wing. Furthermore, these structures are non-homogeneous, often shifting from stiff to soft. We provide a workflow for producing low-data, low-cost, and open-source lithograph files, allowing tactile accessibility in microscopy images. The lithographs made with this workflow can be printed on a 350 USD 3D printer using 3D files under 100 Mb, for a total cost per print of 0.75 USD. This work seeks to leverage advanced 3D printing to create tactile graphics and art that make science more accessible and enable tactile exploration of biological structures. This framework in this text is aligned with a GitHub repository that will be constantly updated, allowing tactile media to be created as 3D printing and lithography become more streamlined in the years to come.

翻译：在不使用“看”这个动词的情况下描述一种动物。你能在保留长度尺度的同时，为解读复杂的显微图像提供一种替代方法吗？世界上充满了小到我们肉眼无法观察的特征：壁虎脚上的刚毛、覆盖在大鼠胡须上的角质层，或者蝙蝠翅膀上的绒毛。此外，这些结构是非均匀的，常常从硬质变为柔软。我们提供了一种工作流，用于生成数据量低、成本低廉且开源的平版印刷文件，从而实现显微图像的触觉可及性。通过该工作流制作的平版印刷品，可使用低于100 Mb的三维文件，在价值350美元的三维打印机上打印，每份印刷品的总成本为0.75美元。本工作旨在利用先进的三维打印技术创造触觉图形与艺术，使科学更易于理解，并实现对生物结构的触觉探索。文中提出的这一框架与一个持续更新的GitHub存储库保持一致，使得在未来随着三维打印和平版印刷技术日益成熟，能够创建触觉媒体。