CTAN has a new package: sketch
Date: May 5, 2005 4:53:56 PM CEST
A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your
favorite mirror.
Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: sketch
Author's name: Eugene K. Ressler
Location on CTAN: /graphics/sketch
Summary description: 3d sketching in a PSTricks-like language generates
PSTricks code
License type: gpl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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Sketch is a small, simple system for producing line drawings of
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, both un-useful to us. We wanted to produce finely
wrought, mathematically-based illustrations with no extraneous detail
and be able to easily overlay TeX math and text. The input language
is reminiscent of PSTricks, so will be easy to learn for current
PSTricks users. See http://www.frontiernet.net/~eugene.ressler .
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You can have a look at the package at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/sketch
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror
of CTAN that is near to you; see
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors
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 |