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Article #2789Aldus Intellidraw
From: Marvin Minsky
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 03:54
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 03:54
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Has anyone out there used Intellidraw? It almost does some of the thing I want but (1) it grows awesomely slow with a few objects and a few equal-length constraints (links). (2) with equal-length constraints, when you rotate one object around another, suddenly a link flips to a wrong quadrant and the diagram appears to become disconnected. Arrgh. (3) and sometimes when yu move an object in such a length-constrained drawing, the constraint-satisfaction program goes wild and puts some of the objects half a mile off the screen! The last time I had this trouble was around 1960 when Ivan Sutherland was debugging Sketchpad. His constraint program had some bugs, too, but wow, you'd think the state-of-that-art would have improved by now.H|References: <1992Sep8.230029.24204@csus.edu> <tl4y2dn@rpi.edu> j3xnce been distributed on quite so large a scale? I mention this only because it's sometimes hard to find a "classic" soft drink, and there is a small minority of us who find that particular dipeptide to have a rather nasty aftertaste.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!minsky From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) Subject: Aldus Intellidraw Message-ID: <1992Sep9.035414.15885@news.media.mit.edu> Sender: news@news.media.mit.edu (USENET News System) Cc: minsky Organization: MIT Media Laboratory Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 03:54:14 GMT Lines: 20