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Re: Mathematica input from graphics tablets?

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg18950] Re: Mathematica input from graphics tablets?
• From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 01:33:43 -0400
• Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,

Mathematica ins *not* very useful for interactive, visual graphics.
You may try to use a ordinary graphics program like CorelDraw and save
a wmf-file. You should be able to import the wmf-file with Mathematica
4.0
Import[] command.

Hope that helps
Jens

calvitti at gamow.ces.cwru.edu wrote:
> 
> is there a product that enables Mathematica to receive input directly from a
> graphics tablet like wacom.com's? intstead of haveing to keep
> importing the graphics from an external drawing? - maybe a set of
> drivers that'd let you caputer line drawings as a set Mathematica primitives
> (perhaps splines or some suitable object model of the drawing) for
> displaying diagrams etc?
> 
> as flexibly as users can generate Mathematica graphics, most times it's not
> worth the effort (e.g. when the notebooks are not meant for
> publication)
> 
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>   alan calvitti
>   systems and control engineering
>   case western reserve university
> 
>   calvitti at alpha.ces.cwru.edu
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