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How People Execute Handwriting Hollerbach, John Handwriting is shown to be composed mainly of cup-shaped strokes lasting approximately 200 msec. The strokes are based on a hexagonal pattern, with quantized slopes and lengths. Each side of the hexagon is produced by a 40 msec acceleration burst. Smooth writing is produced by merging and rounding these bursts. This report describes research done at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Support for ...