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Penrose – Create diagrams by typing notation in plain text

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Re: Penrose – Create diagrams by typing notation in plain text

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Pic is wonderful! I think what's lacking the most is modern tool integration. It more or less requires troff which is itself somewhat deprecated. I've always thought that extracting pic as standalone tool with ~modern output objects would be a nice project for once I quit being lazy :)

That sounds a lot like https://pikchr.org/ .

Lovely, thank you!

Re: Penrose – Create diagrams by typing notation in plain text

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This makes sense! However, as I've commented on other software like this, why are none of the examples style-free Venn diagrams? That is, black on white 3 circle overlapping each other in pairs with a single shared triangle intersection at center? I apologize if one of these is already present. Style has little value there since it may obscure reality.

I think upset diagram would be even better. https://upset.app/

To say I'm speechless is a mild understatement.

Thanks so much for sharing upset given the context of my question!

Their explication of Venn diagrams is exemplary and compelling, particularly the banana and the way the Venn is elucidated and visualized through the accompanying meta-detail, for lack of a better phrase.

I cannot thank you enough. This will literally propel much of my work on data going forward.

Re: Penrose – Create diagrams by typing notation in plain text

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I just noticed there are 3 tabs for a diagram - substance style domain. This seems too hard to use by person, but I look forward to seeing this plugged into chatgpt

It’s sad how artificial “intelligence” is making people immediately give up at just the thought of having to learn something.

I'm not against learning things, I'm against learning how to fiddle with css to make a diagram. that is not the right tool for the job imo, i want something i can use to knock out diagrams with quickly and easily. canva & excel are already passable

Re: Penrose – Create diagrams by typing notation in plain text

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post #71

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It’s sad how artificial “intelligence” is making people immediately give up at just the thought of having to learn something.

I'm not against learning things, I'm against learning how to fiddle with css to make a diagram. that is not the right tool for the job imo, i want something i can use to knock out diagrams with quickly and easily. canva & excel are already passable

Different use case. The separated model of Penrose is great if you want multiple diagrams with the same style, but different data.
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