From: Shiv Shankar Dayal <shivshankar.dayal@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Gavin <gavinpublic@icloud.com>
Subject: [NTG-context] Re: Do we have a geometry library for Metafun?
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 22:02:07 +0530 [thread overview]
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Dear Gavin,
I have managed to create an implementation for these operations which I
think I can convert into functions and put in startMPinclusions and then
use them from. there.
On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 9:42 PM Gavin via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
wrote:
> Hi Shiv,
>
> > Do we have a geometry library for common operations like finding
> tangents, perpendiculars, circumcircle, orthocenters and such?
>
> I don’t think we have anything like that specifically in the MetaFun
> world, but if there is a MetaPost package you like, you can use it with
> MetaFun. For example, the TeX Live installation includes both ConTeXt and
> 3dgeom.mp, so you should be able to use the 3dgeom package in MetaFun
> simply with "input 3dgeom" in your MetaPost code. (I did a quick check,
> successfully drawing a drawing a cube with 3dgeom. I have not tested it
> beyond than that.)
>
> If there isn’t a MetaPost package for what you want, Lua may be useful for
> doing the calculations.
>
> Gavin
>
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Respect,
Shiv Shankar Dayal
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-12 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-12 14:22 [NTG-context] " Shiv Shankar Dayal
2024-01-12 16:06 ` [NTG-context] " Gavin via ntg-context
2024-01-12 16:32 ` Shiv Shankar Dayal [this message]
2024-01-13 0:07 ` Aditya Mahajan
2024-01-13 1:27 ` Shiv Shankar Dayal
2024-01-13 14:54 ` Gavin via ntg-context
2024-01-13 15:56 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2024-01-13 16:53 ` Shiv Shankar Dayal
2024-01-13 17:00 ` Shiv Shankar Dayal
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