jea@merlin.cvs.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano) (09/21/89)
Can anyone tell me what the Inkwell light pen might
be used for? I cant see how it might replace the
drawing pad ie something like the Easyl? or can it?
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INTERNET: jea@snipe.cvs.rochester.edudooley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Kevin Dooley) (09/25/89)
In article <3082@ur-cc.UUCP> jea@cvs.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano) writes: > >Can anyone tell me what the Inkwell light pen might >be used for? I cant see how it might replace the >drawing pad ie something like the Easyl? or can it? I played with one of these once on my Amiga. I found it to be very unreliable. The idea is very similar to an ordinary mouse, except that you point the pen itself directly at the screen. In theory, this would be a nice alternative to a mouse for drawing pictures and the like, but in practice the pen's position information (which comes from timing the scan lines on the monitor) was not nearly precise enough for my purposes (like drawing smooth lines). This was the Inkwell pen that I played with. Perhaps there are better ones on the market. Kevin -- Kevin Dooley UUCP - {uunet,pyramid}!utai!helios.physics!dooley Physics Dept. BITNET - dooley@utorphys U. of Toronto INTERNET - dooley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca