As of pict, from the slideshow paper I think the answer is yes and
also many other prior works:

https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/pubs/papers/icfp2004-ff.pdf

> 6 Slideshow Design and Related Work
> Slideshow’s pict language is by no means the first
> language designed for generating pictures, and its
> picture constructors are similar to those of Henderson’s
> functional pictures [6], MLgraph [1],
> Pictures [5], FPIC [8], pic [9], MetaPost [7], and many
> other systems.
> ...

(The discussion continues in the paper.)

On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 4:29 PM Stephen De Gabrielle
<spdegabrie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Was the ‘functional geometry’ paper by Peter Henderson in 1982 the 
> inspiration for the pict and 2htdp/image functional picture libraries?
>
> Bw
> Stephen
>
> https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/257577/1/funcgeo2.pdf
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