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Zhang, a noted Taiwanese calligrapher, says that students today like to do everything online, "so we will use computers to teach calligraphy." He threw himself into the computerization of traditional Chinese calligraphy heart and soul, hoping to stem the loss of the ancient art and allow young people to enjoy it.
Using an eleventh-generation pen device developed by PenPower, a notebook computer is linked wirelessly to a writing pad. This not only allows the writing of calligraphy on the computer, it also allows students to imitate the characters written by famous calligraphers, and even to study traditional Chinese painting using the computer. Best of all, the works thus produced can then be printed out.
However, the feeling one gets when writing calligraphy with a brush and ink is completely different from the sensation of using a computer and a tablet input to do so. Zhang says that although he is still dissatisfied with the feel of the system, overall the system has in fact already successfully developed a certain "feeling" and is sensitive to the weight of the user's strokes, yielding about an 80 percent degree of verisimilitude in calligraphy.
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