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. -- 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.
