Section 05 · 4 entries
Instruments
What the hand actually holds. Every entry is one problem the grid created and somebody solved.
Photo: RazorArt asset kit
- 05.1 · long read
The RAND Tablet
An early digitising tablet that let a stylus position be read directly, years before anything like it was affordable.
- 05.2
Stylus pressure
Reading how hard the pen is pressed turns a position into a gesture, and it is what made digital drawing feel like drawing.
- 05.3
The mouse
A relative pointing device is bad at drawing and good at everything else, which is why both survived.
- 05.4
Screens
The display is a measuring instrument you are also looking at, and it drifts.
The other sections
21 entries in all
The grid, and living with it.
Making marks interactively.
Smooth shapes from a handful of numbers.
Measuring something the eye does.
All 21 entries in one table, with the section and the problem each one solved.