On Fri, 2016-02-12 at 03:33 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 11 February 2016 23:50:38 Valerio Bellizzomi wrote: > > > On Thu, 2016-02-11 at 21:18 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Thursday 11 February 2016 13:30:49 Valerio Bellizzomi wrote: > > > > Programmatic and Direct Manipulation, Together at Last > > > > > > > > Abstract > > > > We present the SKETCH-N-SKETCH editor for Scalable Vec- > > > > tor Graphics (SVG) that integrates programmatic and direct > > > > manipulation, two modes of interaction with complementary > > > > strengths. In SKETCH-N-SKETCH, the user writes a program > > > > to generate an output SVG canvas. Then the user may di- > > > > rectly manipulate the canvas while the system infers real- > > > > time updates to the program in order to match the changes > > > > to the output. To achieve this, we propose (i) a > > > > technique called > > > > trace-based program synthesis > > > > that takes program ex- > > > > ecution history into account in order to constrain the search > > > > space and (ii) heuristics for dealing with ambiguities. Based > > > > on our experience writing more than 40 examples and from > > > > the results of a study with 25 participants, we conclude that > > > > SKETCH-N-SKETCH provides a novel and effective work- > > > > flow between the boundaries of existing programmatic and > > > > direct manipulation systems. > > > > > > > > http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.02988v2.pdf > > > > > > > > http://ravichugh.github.io/sketch-n-sketch/releases/v0.4/ > > > > > > My copy of iceweasel cannot look at the 2nd link, too recursive. > > > And I don't download .pdf's without knowing what its all about, So > > > please fix the website so we can read more at our leisure. > > > > unfortunately it isn't *my* website, I just ran across it by searching > > something else. > > Ahh, My apologies, I had assumed you were "blowing your own horn". :-\ > > One tends to get a little "jaded" about announcements of that nature > after nearly 30 years on the "net". It does sound interesting and I did > get it. And I thank you for bringing it to our attention. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
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