Brent Yorgey: Declarative, programmatic vector graphics in Haskell – LGM 2014
Channel: Libre Graphics Meeting
Date: 11/08/2014

Declarative, programmatic vector graphics in Haskell
Brent Yorgey

SLIDES: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~byorgey/pub/14-04-diagrams-LGM.pdf

Diagrams (http://projects.haskell.org/diagrams) is a powerful domain-specific language, embedded in the Haskell programming language, for creating vector graphics and animations. I will show some examples of what is possible using the framework, particularly illustrating the benefits and power of Haskell as a substrate for a graphics language. I will talk briefly about the community surrounding its development, and explain some of the current features in development as well as our longer-term goals for the project.

Brent Yorgey is a PhD student in the Programming Languages group at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He loves communicating beautiful ideas, especially visually, and has been active in the open-source Haskell community since 2006.