Category Archives: diagrams

Blogging again, & some major life events

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Brent

It’s been a long time since I’ve written anything here; the blog was on hold while I was finishing my PhD and on the academic job market. Now that things have settled down a bit I plan to get back … Continue reading →

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Readers wanted!

Posted on August 10, 2014 by Brent

tl;dr: Read a draft of my thesis and send me your feedback by September 9! Over the past year I’ve had several people say things along the lines of, “let me know if you want me to read through your … Continue reading →

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Diagrams 1.0

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Brent

The diagrams team is very pleased to announce the 1.0 release of diagrams, a framework and embedded domain-specific language for declarative drawing in Haskell. Check out the gallery for some examples of what it can do. Diagrams can be used … Continue reading →

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In defense of drawing by coding

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Brent

Just some half-baked thoughts in repsonse to Bret Victor’s talk, Drawing Dynamic Visualizations (along with his addendum here). As usual, it is a fun and inspiring talk, so if you haven’t seen it I highly recommend it; but I will … Continue reading →

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Introducing diagrams-haddock

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Brent

I am quite pleased to announce the release of diagrams-haddock, a tool enabling you to easily include programmatically generated diagrams in your Haddock documentation. Why might you want to do this? “A picture is worth a thousand words”—in many instances … Continue reading →

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Diagrams 0.6

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Brent

I am pleased to announce the release of version 0.6 of diagrams, a full-featured framework and embedded domain-specific language for declarative drawing. Check out the gallery for examples of what it can do! Highlights of this release include: Diagrams now … Continue reading →

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Creating documents with embedded diagrams

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Brent

If you read my recent post about type algebra, you may have wondered how I got all those nice images in there. Surely creating the images and then inserting them into the post by hand would be rather tedious! Indeed, … Continue reading →

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Diagrams mentoring at Hac Phi

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Brent

Hac Phi is coming up in less than a month, August 3-5 here in Philadelphia: three days of hanging out with awesome people, eating good food, and hacking on Haskell projects. Judging by past instances, I promise you it will … Continue reading →

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Announcing diagrams 0.5

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Brent

I am pleased to announce the release of version 0.5 of diagrams, a full-featured framework and embedded domain-specific language for declarative drawing. Check out the gallery for examples of what it can do! Highlights of this release include: A new … Continue reading →

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Modern art with diagrams: the face of progress

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Brent

As an addendum to my previous post, here are a few outputs generated while I was debugging: For extra credit, deduce what the bugs were. ;)

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