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rpic: the pic picture-drawing language, reimplemented in Rust

Year: 2026

Type: software

Abstract: rpic is a modern, SVG/PNG/PDF-first reimplementation of Brian W. Kernighan's pic picture-drawing language, written in pure Rust with no system dependencies. It ships a native circuit-element library in the spirit of J. D. Aplevich's circuit_macros, natively typeset TeX math labels, structured compiler diagnostics, a declarative animation layer, and bindings for Python, JavaScript/WebAssembly and C; an R package is maintained in the companion repository milkway/rpic-r. Documentation and a live playground: rpic.dev.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21209915

Author: Leite, André

Institution: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Language: English

Topic: Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques

Subfield: Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7167593079

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