There's several issues at play here.

We used to have good labs for mouse controls, but neglect and
disinterest have taken their toll.

But claiming, instead, that they do not exist, only contributes to the problem.

For myself, I might motivate myself to have the interest to resurrect
or recreate a "use mouse to draw lines on an isigraph" example or demo
or lab, but right now I can't be bothered any more than you can. After
all, I have work I should be doing...

That said, I'll give you a couple pointers.

Some documentation from an older (but still relatively recent) version
of J: http://www.jsoftware.com/docs/help701/user/win_driver_cmd_ref_overview.htm

Also, in jqt, go to the Help menu and try some of the options under
Studio. Some of the studio stuff is in sad shape and is suffering from
near abandonment - it used to be orders of magnitude better. But what
flourished once can probably be recreated. If people care enough to
even try...

(One problem I noted, for example, was that the polygon verb was not
defined in the fractals lab. If I remember right, that was a pretty
simple thing - maybe something like  3 : '^(i.1+y)*0j2p1%y' )

Thanks,

-- 
Raul

On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 1:48 PM, Dabrowski, Andrew John
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Eh... yes, but in Clojure I made a GUI interface for students to construct 
> fractals: students use the mouse to construct a piecewise linear figure, 
> which the program then iterates to form a fractal.  This might be possible 
> with J, but the lack of examples and poor documentation make it a practical 
> impossibility for a newbie like me.
>
> On 01/09/2018 01:28 AM, Raul Miller wrote:
>
> Eh... you can construct fractals in J using viewmat, among other things.
>
> See also:
> http://www.lulu.com/shop/clifford-reiter/fractals-visualization-and-j-fourth-edition-part-1/ebook/product-22579555.html
> http://www.lulu.com/shop/clifford-reiter/fractals-visualization-and-j-4th-edition-part-2-pdf/ebook/product-23058455.html
>
> Or, if you prefer paper:
> http://www.lulu.com/shop/clifford-reiter/fractals-visualization-and-j-fourth-edition-part-1/paperback/product-22561871.html
> http://www.lulu.com/shop/clifford-reiter/fractals-visualization-and-j-4th-edition-part-2/paperback/product-23052714.html
>
> (Also available from Amazon for under twice the price.)
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
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