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Old 05-02-2008, 09:30 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by axel77 View Post
(and IMHO without the iLiad knowing how tilted it is held itself and in which direction the pen is tilted relative to it wouldn't be useable data after all)
It would be usable, because that's not the way Wacom tablets work. The pen doesn't "sense" tilt via an accelerometer (and, hence, the absolute tilt w/respect to gravity vector) but using the same grid it detects the pen's position with. Tilt information is relative to the surface of the digitizer grid, regardless of the angle at which the surface itself is angled.

But it's a moot point, because tablets with tilt (the Intuos line) cost about half of iLiad and tilt/rotation sense is limited to Wacom branded tablets and screens, not OEM digitizers.
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