tug.ctan.org upload: sketch
Date: April 4, 2007 8:18:10 AM CEST
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Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Sketch, Version 0.2 (build 9)
Author's name: Eugene K. Ressler
Location on CTAN: /graphics
Summary description: Sketch -- A 3D Scene Description Translator
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
TikZ/PGF output has been added to Sketch. Sketch translates 3d scenes expressed in a fairly powerful PSTricks-like language to both PSTricks and, now, TikZ/PGF. More info at http://www.frontiernet.net/~eugene.ressler . Also see Kjell Magne Fauske's great page at http://www.fauskes.net .
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/sketch . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=sketch (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
TikZ/PGF output has been added to Sketch. Sketch translates 3d scenes expressed in a fairly powerful PSTricks-like language to both PSTricks and, now, TikZ/PGF. More info at http://www.frontiernet.net/~eugene.ressler . Also see Kjell Magne Fauske's great page at http://www.fauskes.net .
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/sketch . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=sketch (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
sketch – A 3d sketch language translator
Sketch is a small, simple system for producing line drawings of two- or three-dimensional objects and scenes. It began as a way to make illustrations for a textbook after we could find no suitable tool for this purpose. Existing scene processors emphasized GUIs and/or photo-realism, neither of which was useful to us. We wanted to produce finely wrought, mathematically-based illustrations with no extraneous detail.
The input language is reminiscent of PSTricks, so will be easy for current PSTricks users to learn; output is for use either by pstricks itself, or by pgf.
| Package | sketch |
| Version | 0.2 |
| Maintainer | Eugene K. Ressler |