Lag

Overview

Unlike a pen and paper system, where there is essentially an instantaneous feeling to drawing, a drawing tablet being a digital system where many components are processing and communicating data is always subject to some form of lag.

In the context of drawing tablets, I use the word log to describe how things are "following" the physical pen.

There are two kinds of lag:

Companion videos

The details on lag are described in this video series:

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