Callanish
Reversed cards in Digital Tarot
Ever since I started the Phuture website I've been asked to support reversed Tarot cards.
I've always said "no" due to the technical limitations of Digital Tarot but I've just had an idea which I'd like to share with everyone on how it could be done digitally.
Since you are not physically shuffling the cards in a Digital Deck, the software jumbles them up for you, you have no control over the dignity of the cards.
Picking the cards, if all cards are presented anonymously and equally to the user, nullifies the technology used in the shuffling but not the technology's choice of card dignity.
I've always used, on the website and the App, a grid layout of all 78 cards face down.
The user clicks (or taps) on their card choices.
I recently started playing around the the "Coverflow" or "Carousel" method of picking cards from a Digital Deck. It's a nice alternative.
The idea I have, to get around the problem of allowing the user to influence the card dignity, it to make use of the smart phone or tablets gesture controls.
So to pick a card you don't just tap on it you swipe your finger up the screen or down the screen.
That way you are not just picking the card but you are also changing the dignity of the card (the card may already be undignified and your swipe gesture could return it to up right).
Thoughts?
Callanish
Ever since I started the Phuture website I've been asked to support reversed Tarot cards.
I've always said "no" due to the technical limitations of Digital Tarot but I've just had an idea which I'd like to share with everyone on how it could be done digitally.
Since you are not physically shuffling the cards in a Digital Deck, the software jumbles them up for you, you have no control over the dignity of the cards.
Picking the cards, if all cards are presented anonymously and equally to the user, nullifies the technology used in the shuffling but not the technology's choice of card dignity.
I've always used, on the website and the App, a grid layout of all 78 cards face down.
The user clicks (or taps) on their card choices.
I recently started playing around the the "Coverflow" or "Carousel" method of picking cards from a Digital Deck. It's a nice alternative.
The idea I have, to get around the problem of allowing the user to influence the card dignity, it to make use of the smart phone or tablets gesture controls.
So to pick a card you don't just tap on it you swipe your finger up the screen or down the screen.
That way you are not just picking the card but you are also changing the dignity of the card (the card may already be undignified and your swipe gesture could return it to up right).
Thoughts?
Callanish