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Variable-width Bézier curves (2025)


In 2013 I began teaching university classes, and quickly realized that I wanted to be able to do board work – where I write and draw by hand live in front of the class – but that my rooms did not have large enough boards to be clearly seen by the number of students they contained. So I purchased a graphics tablet11 Initially a Wacom Intuos 4, though I’ve purchased several others since then and tried various tools that were extant at that time.

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