Nell: An SVG Drawing Language

Nell is a language for describing two dimensional vector drawings. We have been using versions of the language for several years to create illustrations for books, webpages and various art projects. It can even be used as a tool for physics and math simulations and experiments.

 

We created the language because of our frustration with how tedious and time consuming it can be to create complex vector drawings. Why sit in front of a screen for hours clicking and dragging with a mouse when you can spend a few minutes thinking about your drawing, solving a few geometry and trigonometry problems and then writing a simple program that will create the drawing for you? It's less tedious and a lot more fun, plus you get to sharpen your math and programming skills.

 

The book comes with software that translates a drawing definition in the Nell language into an SVG file. The software is open source with a GPL license. It can be downloaded from the book's website.

 

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Nell: An SVG Drawing Language

Nell is a language for describing two dimensional vector drawings. We have been using versions of the language for several years to create illustrations for books, webpages and various art projects. It can even be used as a tool for physics and math simulations and experiments.

 

We created the language because of our frustration with how tedious and time consuming it can be to create complex vector drawings. Why sit in front of a screen for hours clicking and dragging with a mouse when you can spend a few minutes thinking about your drawing, solving a few geometry and trigonometry problems and then writing a simple program that will create the drawing for you? It's less tedious and a lot more fun, plus you get to sharpen your math and programming skills.

 

The book comes with software that translates a drawing definition in the Nell language into an SVG file. The software is open source with a GPL license. It can be downloaded from the book's website.

 

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Nell: An SVG Drawing Language

Nell: An SVG Drawing Language

Nell: An SVG Drawing Language

Nell: An SVG Drawing Language

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Overview

Nell is a language for describing two dimensional vector drawings. We have been using versions of the language for several years to create illustrations for books, webpages and various art projects. It can even be used as a tool for physics and math simulations and experiments.

 

We created the language because of our frustration with how tedious and time consuming it can be to create complex vector drawings. Why sit in front of a screen for hours clicking and dragging with a mouse when you can spend a few minutes thinking about your drawing, solving a few geometry and trigonometry problems and then writing a simple program that will create the drawing for you? It's less tedious and a lot more fun, plus you get to sharpen your math and programming skills.

 

The book comes with software that translates a drawing definition in the Nell language into an SVG file. The software is open source with a GPL license. It can be downloaded from the book's website.

 


Product Details

BN ID: 2940163902002
Publisher: Abrazol Publishing
Publication date: 04/02/2020
Sold by: Draft2Digital
Format: eBook
File size: 415 KB

About the Author

Stefan Hollos is a physicist and electrical engineer by training, and enjoys anything related to math, physics, engineering and computing. He also enjoys creating music and visual art, and being in the great outdoors.

He is the author of 18 books.

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