Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!radio.astro!helios.physics!dooley
From: dooley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Kevin Dooley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Inkwell Light Pen
Keywords: 1.4 OS
Message-ID: <1989Sep25.143359.26513@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
Date: 25 Sep 89 14:33:59 GMT
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Reply-To: dooley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Kevin Dooley)
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
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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
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