New Kind of Paper
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New Kind of Paper
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#2> you can add your own symbols (that can optionaly expand to words)
> it can display graphics such as graphs, plots, diagrams, images or even interactive ball-and-stick model of a chemical compound
> it is programmable, i.e. you can write your own functions with recursion, conditionals and loops
This sounds similar to Ken Perlin's Chalk Talk. See the demo at https://youtu.be/xuzrF_82z7U?t=2679 but the whole video is worth watching.
> RAND Tablet had handwriting recognition that was based on _clever heuristic+, i.e. no machine learning, and it required person to write slightly different than it would normally write with a pen and paper.
The linked page on handwriting recognition is as interesting as this article: https://jackschaedler.github.io/handwriting-recognition/
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#3Aligning the symbols for easy parsing in the "best" example was a nice trick.
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#4Rand Grail was very cool to see on video. The fact that it's 'assembly' did not seem that bad to me. What was painful was watching the demo of writing the equation and all of those parentheses being drawn around. Maybe RPN or some other prefix would work better.
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#5Aligning the symbols for easy parsing in the "best" example was a nice trick.
In some countries postcards and envelopes are printed with boxes for this purpose: you're supposed to print the post code inside them.
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#6I've been disappointed at how limited the pen input is on the iPad. Few apps support it and its built-in understanding of text has a very simplistic model.
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#7Reminds me of how OneNote worked in... 2013, I wanna say?
Funny how different people still act equally as blown-away by technology that's been around for decades, but I guess that's retrofuturism raison d'etre.
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#8I've been disappointed at how limited the pen input is on the iPad. Few apps support it and its built-in understanding of text has a very simplistic model.
Do you know about Scribble? It was new to iPadOS 14, and works everywhere you can write with the keyboard.
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#9Aligning the symbols for easy parsing in the "best" example was a nice trick.
There's something oddly satisfying about writing individual characters inside boxes.
When I watched the video in the post where it converted the written text to characters, my immediate thought was that I wished those characters lined up with what you wrote because it's jarring to just see them rearrange far from where you wrote them out. I was happy to see the later example with the boxes.
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#10The parsed version flashing every time a change was made was distracting… you don’t want to keep having your eyes pulled away from where you are writing.
Also, having all of the input terms be integers, yet the answer returned as a floating point, seems a basic type error.
In general, though, it seems to miss the mark. If you’re going with a hybrid electronic/pen approach, why not let the computer handle the annoying bits, like having to wrap things in parentheses that you manually need to keep balanced? Why not draw a circle around some terms, and have that get used for grouping? Why not have the entry itself be interactive, like in the works of Bret Victor?