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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1506062" data-attributes="member: 3649">The Kdatlyno in Niven's Known Space series see by a radar sense; the one major story featuring them features a Kdatlyno sculptor. Their sculptures also have texture, since sound reflects differently from different substances.  I've always been interested in a race that speaks via color, their eyes being vastly more sensitive to shading and hue than ours are. They'd make art that perhaps means vastly different things depending on the time of day, and the season, since the light will hit the object slightly differently each day. Perhaps their idea of an epic poem is a sculpture that must be looked at each hour of each day for a year; talk about a puzzle to solve...  An undersea race (sea elves?) might produce music modified by the temperature of the water, or conflicting currents. Music would be something shared among all communities, since it'll travel so far. It might be a means of communication as well, kind of like the whistling speach of some mountaineers - properly done and passed on, the song of an artist could circle the world in no time.  Earth elemental art; that would be something utterly alien. Imagine art based on the density of the medium you're passing through at the time; it would be like art based on air pressure to us.</blockquote>