Inspiration for pict and 2htdp/image ?

Stephen De Gabrielle

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Jul 7, 2021, 5:29:18 PM7/7/21

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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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Shu-Hung You

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Jul 7, 2021, 6:04:46 PM7/7/21

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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.
> ...

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Stephen De Gabrielle

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Jul 7, 2021, 6:41:24 PM7/7/21

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Nice! Thank you!

S.

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