Picture language


Relevant section in text: 2.2.4

This is the original material on the square-limit language, which was revised to form section 2.2.4 of the book. For explanations of how the language works, you should use the book rather than the assignment text given here. We have not included a postscript file here, because the explanation (and the figures) in the book are better.

The code below includes an implementation of primitive painters for line-drawings and two-dimensional images. This code is specific to MIT Scheme. It includes a constructor that creates primitive painters from pgm files.

Files for download:

ps4hnd.tex TeX source for the assignment.
hend.scm
hutils.scm
psgo.scm
Scheme source code required for this assignment.
prmpnt.scm Scheme source code implementing constructors for primitive painters (highly MIT Scheme specific). You should compile this file to obtain adequate performance.
einstein.pgm
fovnder.pgm
Sample pgm files that can be used to create painters.

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