As of pict, from the slideshow paper I think the answer is yes and also many other prior works:
https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/pubs/papers/icfp2004-ff.pdf > 6 Slideshow Design and Related Work > Slideshow’s pict language is by no means the first > language designed for generating pictures, and its > picture constructors are similar to those of Henderson’s > functional pictures [6], MLgraph [1], > Pictures [5], FPIC [8], pic [9], MetaPost [7], and many > other systems. > ... (The discussion continues in the paper.) On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 4:29 PM Stephen De Gabrielle <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > Was the ‘functional geometry’ paper by Peter Henderson in 1982 the > inspiration for the pict and 2htdp/image functional picture libraries? > > Bw > Stephen > > https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/257577/1/funcgeo2.pdf > > -- > ---- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAGHj7-%2B%2B2tq2FJUNb27xw0%3DtHypq%2BgfMW9vWH4fxTtJXMYF%2BkA%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAMTzy%2BZiodERkbKRckATDJe04AsZ6WLPdNr0MwMiOWwFLhR4FA%40mail.gmail.com.

