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Re:Penrose: create diagrams by typing mathematical notation ... by andrepd on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @07:32PM (#18180703)
From their paper, it seems you can write a 'style' file for anything you can possibly want. Users then write the declarative code you see which Penrose interprets with respect to that 'style' file to know what to actually do.
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Re:Penrose: create diagrams by typing mathematical notation ... by philsnow on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @07:49PM (#18180794)
this is the exciting part to me; is there any constraint that the output has to be a 2-dimensional figure? I could imagine a style file that outputs a blender scene with a time dimension, or a VR scene that you can interact with in the same way they describe dragging one of the vector heads and having it recalculate the rest of the model.
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