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Element 6

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Dr
Draw

Leave a path behind you.

pen · finger · brush

First known

From a history

1954Douglas Ross draws with a light cannon on Whirlwind and writes his name on the scope. MIT.

See also: Stylator, 1957; Sketchpad, 1963.

Rests on Ross's own recollection; Buxton agrees.

Dated by a reputable history or a participant's own account. The source.

  • ReadingValue

Specimen № 6 — operate freely

Sign your name on the line. Then lengthen the string and sign again.

Fig. 6 — Draw

000 readings · idle

Down the Move column

  1. it followsDrDraw
  2. it targetsDgDrag
  3. it remembersMiMime
  4. it connectsTwThrow
  5. it guessesSwSwipe
  6. it actsStSteer

Read down and Draw gets heavier: each step is the same act, on a machine that keeps track of more.

Bodies

The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Draw takes.

  • pen
  • finger
  • brush

From the 2021 table

These were tiles of their own. On this table each is a form of Draw, and each old address lands here.

  • PaintIsotopeThe same act in another body.
  • TraceAllotropeThe same act with another response curve.