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Comment by WillAdams

The fundamental question here is one which I don't think there is an agreed-upon answer for:

>What does an algorithm look like?

I am working on a rather visually-oriented tool, and while I did a fair bit of early development using BlockSCAD, and also have access to OpenSCAD Graph Editor, it hasn't made sense to show the algorithms visually because it's a lot of work making them suitably expressive.

One almost wishes that the specialized library used for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwxzDHniEw

was published and widely used.

Similarly, why can't we have more things such as:

https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.htm...

parent WillAdams 1 year ago

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