Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Reading #20 MathPad2

Comment:
Chris

Summary
The paper presents a prototype application for sketching math equations and diagrams. The application allows handwriting of regular math notation and free form diagrams. The relations between the two can be established implicitly by the application or by explicit user gestures. This process is called association. The application can also solve some complex equations.

Discussion
I this is a very important domain in sketch recognition. Writing equations+diagrams for papers using mark-up languages has always been painful for scholars. I would not care about the equation solver, but if this tool just worked fine in converting hand written equations & diagrams to a mark-up language, it would be a useful one.

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