In Defense Of The Stylus • Hacker News Board

Re: In Defense Of The Stylus

#31

Post by forgottenpaswrd » Sat, Nov 12, 2011, 3:34 PM UTC

Mr Jobs dedicated their last days of his life to draw and ketchup things on paper on the hospital.

Does the reporter honestly think that he hated the stylus?. Of course not, he just realized that it was not practical at the time, it was not practical to carry pounds of extra weight for using stylus as you need a backplane active matrix that consumes battery all the time.

In the video you see Atmel people drawing and the enormous lag it has, this was unacceptable for Jobs of course.

I made my own homebrew software for the DS lite that used the stylus, for instant(no perceptible lag)sketching, with antialiasing and 3d. It worked very well, but after a month of using it, the screen wore out because the screen is resistive and plastic. A little expensive note pad!!

Re: In Defense Of The Stylus

#32

Post by tripzilch » Sat, Nov 12, 2011, 4:28 PM UTC

> Third, you can see what’s under the stylus. This is essential to artists, of course, but it also completes a simple visual feedback loop in which you can tell what you’re touching.

When I first got my Wacom drawing tablet, it took me about an hour of trying out handwriting in GIMP to get used to this. As long as you hover the stylus only a few millimeters above the tablet, you can even see the mousecursor move around to where you're pointing (takes a little bit of practice, that).

So, while nice, it's definitely not strictly necessary that seeing what's "under" the styles happens on the same plane as you're drawing on.

Re: In Defense Of The Stylus

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Post by thanos2014 » Sun, Nov 13, 2011, 3:01 PM UTC

forgottenpaswrd wrote: post #31

Mr Jobs dedicated their last days of his life to draw and ketchup things on paper on the hospital. Does the reporter honestly think that he hated the stylus?. Of course not, he just realized that it was not practical at the time, it was not practical to carry pounds of extra weight for using stylus as you need a backplane active matrix that consumes battery all the time. In the video you see Atmel people drawing and…

hi :) Is it possible to share the app?