On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 9:06 AM Mikael P. Sundqvist <mic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 6:03 PM Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > As most mechanism are reasonable okay now we can look into what future > > versions of ConteXt should provide in terms of functionality. The > > (luatex) engine is also more of less finished or at least stable in > > terms of functionality. > > > > One possible area of further development is graphics so I'd like to know > > if there are (reasonable) demands for more graphics support using > > metapost. Alan and I are on-and-off working on some extensions and one > > of the things we discuss is visualization of data. The question is of > > course what should be done in the lua/mp/tex combination and what > > externally but the combination has some advantages. There has been > > presentations and discussions at the last meeting and graphics is always > > a nice topic, and also kind of rewarding in terms of development. > > > > Of course other demands can be formulated too, but these then need to > > come with well defined descriptions (or mockup examples). > > > > Hans > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > > tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry > to the Wiki! > > > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net > > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > Hi, > > I don't know if what I describe below is along the lines you ask for, > but here comes two wishes: > > 1) Full support for drawing implicit curve plots. For some curves, > like a lemniscate > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemniscate_of_Bernoulli) one can easily > succeed by using a parametrisation, but sometimes one end up with > equations and to find a parametrisation might be difficult (not to say > impossible). sure, see eg https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/904782/is-there-a-general-way-to-parameterize-all-implicit-functions -- luigi
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