From: Matthew Reidsma (mreidsma_at_hds.harvard.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 24 2005 - 21:06:58 PST
Ed,
Thanks for this fantastic description. I found the standard definitions
much too vague to really "get" what the jaggies are... I have added
this definition to the Wiki. Hope it will be useful to others as well.
-Matthew Reidsma
Boston, MA U.S.A.
On Wednesday, March 23, 2005, at 04:01 PM, Ed Kummel wrote:
> The jaggies are evidenced by the digital ink not
> tracking with the stylus in a pseudo-random manner.
> The way this manifests its self is that you can be
> writing on the screen, happy as you please, then in
> the middle of forming a letter, and without you
> removing the stylus from the screen, the digital ink
> will suddenly and disasterously jump to some other
> random part of the screen and continue doing this
> until what you wrote resembles the jagged tracing of
> electrical arcs in a Van-Degraff machine. Needless to
> say, the resulting digital ink is unrecognizable by
> you or the recognizer software.
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