Re: [racket-users] Re: Racket graphics?

2017-01-14 Thread Alex Harsanyi
On Saturday, January 14, 2017 at 10:48:26 PM UTC+8, Lawrence Bottorff wrote: > This is all very impressive, indeed. I was wondering if Racket could be used > to create a new sort of GIS app, i.e., geographic information system. It > would have to do "vector graphics," which is to say every

Re: [racket-users] Re: Racket graphics?

2017-01-14 Thread Daniel Prager
> Also, are these links listed in your responses done in Scribble? Yes: it's standard for Racket documentation. What would be the novel aspect(s) of your GIS app? Dan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this

Re: [racket-users] Re: Racket graphics?

2017-01-14 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Lawrence Bottorff wrote on 01/14/2017 09:48 AM: I was wondering if Racket could be used to create a new sort of GIS app, i.e., geographic information system. It would have to do "vector graphics," which is to say every primitive drawing object is real, i.e., isn't just a setup step toward

Re: [racket-users] Re: Racket graphics?

2017-01-14 Thread Lawrence Bottorff
This is all very impressive, indeed. I was wondering if Racket could be used to create a new sort of GIS app, i.e., geographic information system. It would have to do "vector graphics," which is to say every primitive drawing object is real, i.e., isn't just a setup step toward creating a

Re: [racket-users] Re: Racket graphics?

2017-01-14 Thread Daniel Prager
Lawrence writes > Could it do diagrams as well as TikZ ... For making-TIkz like diagrams check out Jens Axel Søgaard's MetaPict library. It has as an explicit goal "to narrow the gap between Scribble and LaTeX + MetaPost/Tikz". https://soegaard.github.io/docs/metapict/metapict.html

[racket-users] Re: Racket graphics?

2017-01-14 Thread Alex Harsanyi
On Saturday, January 14, 2017 at 12:15:50 PM UTC+8, Lawrence Bottorff wrote: > I've seen Racket graphics doing some basic graphics. How expressive is it? > Could it do diagrams as well as TikZ or gnuplot? What output formats are > there? Could it be like Processing and do 3-d and motion? I