Context Free 1.1 coming soon

[MtnViewJohn]

Mark and I are putting the finishing touches on another release of Context Free. We are adding the following features:

1. New transforms: flip, sizex, sizey, and skew. Shape adjustments are now stored as a single affine transform matrix.
2. A syntax for controlling what order the transforms are applied. For example: to have three squares arranged 120 degrees apart with their corners pointing to the center you could have:

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   rule Squares {
   	SQUARE [ r 0 x 4 r 45 ]
   	SQUARE [ r 120 x 4 r 45 ]
   	SQUARE [ r 240 x 4 r 45 ]
   	Squares [ r 25 s 0.8 b 0.1 ]	// Why not recurse?
   }

3. Equilateral triangles
4. Digits added to i_pix.cfdg

Things not added:

• Animation/video/stepping. This one is going to be hard.
• Color, not yet
• Transparent background, won't look good unless we have an alpha channel because of anti-aliasing. Will be part of color support.
• Rectangles and other triangles: just use the new transforms
• LINE/PATH primitives, soon
• Parameterization, needs more thought