As promised, I mocked up my original vs a quick iteration using pict. It's not nearly as time consuming as I thought it'd be (took about 30 minutes not being familiar with the pict api):
https://gist.github.com/apg/e193b3f4b1626397ebb3065947a6ae8a It's obviously not visually the same, but the same information is basically conveyed in both. My biggest complaints are that of where arrows end up, but other than that, This isn't tooo horrible as is, but could be oodles better with some helpers. Cheers, Andrew On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 10:22 PM, WarGrey Gyoudmon Ju <juzhenli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 1:20 AM, Andrew Gwozdziewycz <apg...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Are you focused more on replacing Graphviz, or a generalized drawing >> and visualization library that could be used to more easily put >> together a Graphviz like tool? I guess they are likely somewhat >> similar goals... > > > Firstly, I just write it for fun, but also focus on high quality real world > applications > since I do not want to use any software design tools that force me dragging > and clicking. > > In untyped racket (but may not in the main distribution), there are a lot of > small packages > that focus on one or more subfields of graph visualization and layout > algorithms. In typed > racket, there also are pict3d, plot, and flomap based images. So I think > they definitely benefit > user-designers and covers lots of everyday usage, but user-developers may > need more > extension abilities since modern applications grow too fast. > > Therefore, I am writing a modern design engine for programmers with an > elegant functional interface, > graphviz like tool is one of the applications of this engine, actually it is > likely to be the first one. > > For now, > * CSS syntax and its computation model is chosen to style elements and > items; > * New architecture and datatypes is coming soon for > reading/composing/writing image resources. > > Also I am glad to write the entire tex system in native Typed Racket, though > it is really a huge > project and therefore a long term plan. > -- http://www.apgwoz.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
