Re: Mathematica input from graphics tablets?
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- 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) > > +------------------------------------------+ > alan calvitti > systems and control engineering > case western reserve university > > calvitti at alpha.ces.cwru.edu > icq# 16264545 > +------------------------------------------+