Tag Archives: diagrams

In defense of drawing by coding

Posted on October 18, 2013 by

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Generating plane tilings with diagrams

Posted on November 12, 2011 by

I’ve finally set up a diagrams-contrib package to serve as a home for user contributions to the diagrams project—generation of specialized diagrams, fun or instructive examples, half-baked ideas, stuff which is not sufficiently polished or general to go in the … Continue reading →

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Announcing diagrams-0.4

Posted on October 23, 2011 by

I am pleased to announce the release of version 0.4 of diagrams, a full-featured framework and embedded domain-specific language for declarative drawing. The last announcement was of the 0.1 release; there have been quite a few changes and improvements since … Continue reading →

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diagrams repos now mirrored on github!

Posted on September 10, 2011 by

I was quite excited when I learned that Owen Stephens was working on a two-way darcs-git bridge for his Google Summer of Code project. You see, I’m one of those holdouts who, despite acknowledging that github is pretty cool and … Continue reading →

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