Can Drawing Be Liberated From The Von Neumann Style?

Citation

Pereira, F. C. (1983). Can drawing be liberated from the Von Neumann style?. In Databases for Business and Office Applications, Database Week (pp. 184-190).

Abstract

Current graphics database tools give the user a view of drawing that is too constrained by the low-level machine operations used to implement the tools. A new approach to graphics databases is proposed, based on the description of objects and their relationships in the restricted form of logic embodied in the programming language Prolog.


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