[racket] Rendering the PLT symbol in Racket?

There is some racket code, but it just duplicates the ps code, drawing
directly into a dc. (This can be lifted into a pict, via 'dc'.) If
that would be helpful, I can supply it.

Robby


On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Daniel Prager
<daniel.a.prager at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Alexander & John
>
> On further examination I'm not sure that direct-drawing particularly helps
> me, but I appreciate the references (and the history).
>
> I'll make sure that there's a nice effect for the design: just bear with me,
> I'm not quite satisfied with what can be currently be achieved.
>
> Dan
>
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 5:52 PM, John Clements <clements at brinckerhoff.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> There are a whole bunch of ways of answering this question; you might want
>> Neil’s fantastic ray-traced version, or just the simple paths. In case it’s
>> helpful, here’s the original postscript file generated by Shriram, Robby,
>> and Matthew. Oh, wait, here’s the comment from the file:
>>
>> %%Title: PLT Lambda
>> %%Creator: Matthew, then Shriram, finally Robby
>> %%CreationDate: June 24, 1997
>> %%For: PLT
>>
>> (NB: Apple Mail tries to render this as an image, pretty badly. Save the
>> attachment to read it.)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 21, 2014, at 4:59 PM, Alexander D. Knauth <alexander at knauth.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I tried it with the images in the email, but it was too big, so here it
>> > is just links.
>> > I think there was something on the list about this before, and I found
>> > these again from that:
>> >
>> > http://docs.racket-lang.org/images/Logos.html?q=plt-logo#%28def._%28%28lib._images%2Flogos..rkt%29._plt-logo%29%29
>> > (require images/logos)
>> > (plt-logo)
>> > and also
>> >
>> > http://docs.racket-lang.org/draw/overview.html?q=racket%2Fdraw#%28part._.Drawing_.Paths%29
>> > (down a little bit)
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sep 21, 2014, at 12:52 AM, Daniel Prager <daniel.a.prager at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> There was interest following my talk at RacketCon in a www.youpatch.com
>> >> quilt pattern featuring the PLT symbol
>> >> (file:///Users/dan/Documents/plt.svg).
>> >>
>> >> I was having a play with youpatch.com by standard means, to put
>> >> together a commemorative pattern, but I think I can do a cleaner job given
>> >> access to Racket code that generates the image.
>> >>
>> >> Can anyone point me to, or send me the code?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Dan
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