Thomas Kear wrote:
> Can someone offer a simple explanation of how the pressure curve works.  I 
> have managed to get values I like, but I can't for the life of me figure out 
> how those relate to the real world.
> 
> given
> xsetwacom set stylus0 PressCurve $x $y $z $w
> How do we draw the curve?
> 
> Is my horrible ASCII representation below even remotely correct?
> 'xsetwacom list param' mentions a bezier curve where I've drawn straight 
> lines 
> to avoid attaching an image, but am I even close to the right idea?
> 
>   pressure reported to X
>        ^
>        |       (z,w)/--(100,100)
>        |           /
>        |          /
>        |         /
>        |        /
>        |       /
>        |      /
>        |     /
>        |    /
>  (0,0) |---/(x,y)
>        |----------------> pen pressure

No. The pressure curve is a third order Bezier curve where two points
are set: (0,0) and (100,100). The 4 values you give are the two other
support values of the Bezier curve. See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezier_curves

on Bezier curves.


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