Treffer: Wiring Things Up.

Admitedly, the three-button mouse isn't the best human-machine interface ever designed. For certain operations, a pen and tablet work much better. The Maya tools that benefit most from this interface are known as the Artisan tools. Artisan is a paintbrush-like paradigm for directly affecting data on an object's surface. Pushing and pulling the surface of a model, painting weight values for bone and cluster assignments, selecting points on a surface, painting vertex colors, and even painting flowers onto a hillside are all accomplished with this interface. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]