Appreciable, but what is the novelty exactly? The API design? I see the paper doesn't call out Sketchpad or any of Ivan Sutherland's work anywhere in the paper, neither ThingLab or Juno(-2). They do call out Apparatus, which already introduced speculative rendering. The work also doesn't seem to generate valid transforms, which you have to supply yourself. Discovering valid transforms or solving a more general inverse rendering problem would have been much cooler research.