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PICTUREBALM: A LISP-based graphics language system with flexible syntax and hierarchical data structure

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Gary B. Goates,

Martin L. Griss,

Gary J. HerronAuthors Info & Claims

SIGGRAPH '80: Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

Pages 93 - 99

https://doi.org/10.1145/800250.807475

Published: 01 July 1980 Publication History

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PICTUREBALM is a portable, interactive, LISP-based language system for graphics applications programming. PICTUREBALM's design and initial experimental implementation is described from the point of view of both the user and the language system implementor. The approach of extending a LISP-based language by adding graphical operations was chosen because many of the recognized requirements for graphics programming languages are standard features of LISP-like systems. Future work is proposed.

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SIGGRAPH '80: Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

July 1980

336 pages

ISBN:0897910214

DOI:10.1145/800250

ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Volume 14, Issue 3
July 1980
327 pages
ISSN:0097-8930
DOI:10.1145/965105
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